Blog by Adam Zable and Stefaan Verhulst: “To monitor open data policies across the world, we developed the Open Data Policy Lab Policy Repository. This quarter, we added 11 new policy developments within and across Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. They illustrate the range of mechanisms through which governments and international institutions are increasingly structuring access to data. Five approaches emerge:
- mandating the release and reuse of public data;
- authorizing controlled sharing of government-held datasets;
- enabling structured access to privately controlled or platform-held data;
- governing cross-border data flows through trade frameworks, certification regimes, and bilateral agreements; and
- restructuring the legal architecture that governs data access frameworks themselves.
In the below, we provide further detail…(More)”.
