Technical Country Reports on Enabling an Open Data Culture 2017

The research was undertaken for the Information and Privacy Commission New South Wales between December 2016 and March 2017. The research is current to March 2017. The project has produced two reports. The First report, ‘Conditions Enabling Open Data and Promoting of a Data Sharing Culture,’ provided contemporary insights to support the promotion of Open Government and Open Data. To do so the Report analysed legislation, policy, regulatory settings, roles and responsibilities for leadership, culture and operations in leading jurisdictions as identified in the Open Data Barometer Report. This is the second report, ‘Technical Country Reports on Enabling an Open Data Culture’, that contains longer individual country reports that address legislative, policy and regulatory mechanism utilised in selected jurisdictions. This report includes insights gleaned from communications made with government agencies, open data departments and organisations in these jurisdictions in the period of December 2016 to the end of February 2017 to seek direct input as to how the frameworks have operated in practice. We contacted many entities in the United Kingdom1, United States2, France3, Canada4, the Netherlands5, Sweden6 and New Zealand7. These communications assisted us to inform our knowledge around how the legislative, regulatory, and operational enablers have worked in practice. These reports have been prepared by the University of New South Wales on terms agreed between the University and the IPC. The audience for the report will include the IPC, members of the Steering Committee and senior policy-makers and advisors from anywhere in the world with an interest or role in supporting open data.