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