Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais

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c i t i z e n s h i p a n d d i g i t a l n e t w o r k s
world, and with it, the governments have now the opportunity of better understanding
the needs of their citizens, and the citizens, to be able to participate in a more
complete manner in their government. The information becomes more valuable when
it is shared and less valuable when it is kept. Open data promote more civic debate,
better public well-being and a more intelligent use of the public resources” 3 .
The group formulated fundamental principles for the open governmental data,
arguing that, “upon adopting these principles, the governments of the world could
become more effective, transparent and relevant to our lives” 4 .
In the table below, there are the eight principles of the open governmental data.
According to the activists present in that meeting, governmental data are considered
open when made public in one of the following manners:
Complete
Primary
All public data are made available. Public data are data that are
not submitted to valid privacy, safety or privilege limitations.
Data are collected in its source, with the highest possible level
of granularity, not in aggregate or modified forms.
Up-to-date Data are made available as fast as necessary to preserve its value.
Accessible
Data are available to the largest possible scope of users and for
the largest possible scope of purposes.
Machine-readable Data are reasonably structured to enable automated processing.
Non-discriminatory
Non-proprietary
License-free
Data are available for all, without the need of registration to access
them.
Data are available in a format on which no entity has exclusive
control.
Data are not subject to any form of copyright, patent, intellectual
property or industrial secret. Reasonable restrictions of privacy,
safety and privilege may be allowed.
3. The full text of section 105, in English, is “Subject matter of copyright: United States Government
works. Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States
Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights
transferred to it by assignment, request, or otherwise”. Available at http://www.law.cornell.edu/
uscode/17/105.html. Accessed in Feb/2010.
4. Ditto 2.
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