Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/31
By: Pan Tze-yu and Elizabeth Hsu
Image taken from Pixabay
Taipei, July 31 (CNA) Taiwan’s six municipalities — Taipei, New Taipei, Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung — have endorsed the Open Data Charter to become the first cities in Asia to pledge their commitment to open data, the National Development Council said Tuesday.
International efforts to promote the Open Data Charter, a collaboration between governments and experts began in 2013. Two years later the charter was founded based on six guiding principles on which governments should publish information and the aspiration that data should be open by default, timely and interoperable.
As of late July, a total of 19 countries, 35 local governments and 46 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have endorsed the charter, the council said in a statement.
The six key principales of the charter, which seeks to embed the culture and practice of openness in governments in ways that are resilient to change by opening up data, include making data open by default, timely and comprehensive, accessible and usable, comparable and interoperable. [FULL STORY]