OPEN DATA OPEN DATA OPEN DATA BY MALAVIKA RAGHAVAN* - OPEN DATA

OPEN DATA OPEN DATA OPEN DATA BY MALAVIKA RAGHAVAN* OPEN DATA OPEN DATA OPEN DATA Keywords of the Datafied State Data & Society 142 OPEN DATA By Malavika Raghavan Introduction This essay considers the term “open data” and the evolving role of open data initiatives in modern datafied states. [...] This is despite the fact that the techni- “Conceptualizing Open Data Ecosystems: A Timeline Analysis of Open Data Development in the UK,” in Proceedings of the International cal and legal arrangements that enable the “opening up” of data can apply Conference for E-Democracy an Open Government(CeDEM14), (2014), 245–256, to datasets irrespective of whether the. [...] Preamble)15 13 Council of the European Council, & European Parliament, “Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 Table 1 reveals some commonalities across the definitions of open data on open data and the re-use of public sector information (recast),” Official Journal of the European Union 172, no. [...] es of the broad conditionality and delegation to government departments 34 Isha Parihar, “On the Road to Open Data: Glimpses of the Discourse in India,” of the choice to share datasets in the open data policy. [...] As some scholars have not- ed, shifting to the average citizen’s perspective could reframe expectations of the form and conditions to which open data initiatives aspire.47 Attending to the capacity of consumers of the data to effectively use the data could in- crease attention to factors such as internet access, technical requirements to use data, the usability of interfaces, language of data, etc.