Adding more light to Castro's proposal. The Open Data movement is spreading very fast and as a specialist within the open government business i will be very glad to see ICANN as a whole adopting some of the open data policies that will provide a common platform for reformers, committed to making the internet free and more open, accountable and more responsive to citizens so that transparency processes will be deepen. http://www.opengovpartnership.org/ WISDOM DONKOR Sosftware / Network Engineer Web/Open Government Platform Portal Specialist National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Post Office Box CT. 2439, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana Tel; +233 20 812881 Email: wisdom_dk@hotmail.com wisdom.donkor@data.gov.gh wisdom.dk@gmail.com Skype: wisdom_dk facebook: facebook@wisdom_dk Website: www.nita.gov.gh / www.data.gov.gh www.isoc.gh / www.itag.org.gh On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Castro, Daniel <dcastro@itif.org> wrote:
Steve/All,
Great work compiling these items. As part of the list of mechanisms, I'd like to propose for consideration adding "Establish an open data policy and develop an open data action plan" as part of the efforts to increase ICANN's transparency and accountability (WS2).
There has been a growing movement to adopt open data among nations (see G8 Open Data Charter), non-governmental organizations (World Bank, UN, etc.), and nonprofits/universities. This takes freedom of information policies to the next level by establishing an "open by default" rule for an organization (rather than requiring individuals to request information). Developing an open data action plan for ICANN, could allow stakeholders the ability to prioritize high-value data sets for release, ensure data sets are released in a timely and complete manner, and ensure machine-readability so that data sets can be analyzed and visualized. All of these efforts can be used to improve the transparency of ICANN operations, and bring ICANN's transparency efforts in line with other leading global organizations.
Daniel Castro Director | Center for Data Innovation 202-626-5742 | dcastro@datainnovation.org | www.datainnovation.org Twitter: twitter.com/castrotech | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/danieldcastro
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