Ivan DeLoatch, Executive Director, Federal Geographic Data Committee, US, believes that the challenge lies in processing the data and providing it in a form which is digestible by the everyday citizenry.
Can you tell us about the US Open Data Initiative?
The Open Data Initiative was launched in the early phases of President Barack Obama’s administration, primarily to share and expose data and to allow additional use by citizens as well as by companies and other federal agencies. Following the Open Government Initiative, the Obama administration launched the Open Data Initiative again with the idea of having transparency, but more importantly, to share information across a wide spread of value users.
Is open data a government initiative only, or can commercial data also become open?
There are some data that are bound by a license agreement, and some of those license agreements allow us to share the information. But, it really depends on how the license has been construed and how it is written. However, most of the data has been purchased with taxpayers’ dollars and the general thrust is that we want to share the information with all of our citizenry.
Do you think open data is linked to open government?
This story is from the August 2016 edition of Geospatial World.
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