Open Data Policy
Date Published: 01 May 2024
The policy provides a unified framework for making government data publicly available to enhance transparency, support decision-making, and build a knowledge-based society, while ensuring reliability, regular updates, and free, machine-readable access.
The Open Data Policy aims to create an environment that fosters transparency and supports data-driven decision-making by making government data publicly available according to unified standards. Core principles include providing data from its original source, ensuring regular updates, maintaining sustainability and security, documenting with complete metadata, and offering it in machine-readable formats free of charge. The policy outlines practical steps for identifying open datasets, publishing them on the national platform, periodically reviewing content, and responding to user requests. It also defines roles and responsibilities among entities and emphasizes compliance with regulatory requirements and continuous improvement of published data quality.
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