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      Open Data in Developing Economies : Toward Building an Evidence Base on What Works and How

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      open data, open government data, development

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          Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the potential of open data to bring about wide-scale transformation. The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of open data, however, focuses on high-income countries. Much less is known about open data's role and value in low- and middle-income countries, and more generally about its possible contributions to economic and social development. Open Data for Developing Economies features in-depth case studies on how open data is having an impact across the developing world-from an agriculture initiative in Colombia to data-driven healthcare projects in Uganda and South Africa to crisis response in Nepal. The analysis built on these case studies aims to create actionable intelligence regarding: (a) the conditions under which open data is most (and least) effective in development, presented in the form of a Periodic Table of Open Data; (b) strategies to maximize the positive contributions of open data to development; and (c) the means for limiting open data's harms on developing countries.

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          978-1-928331-59-9
          13 November 2017
          10.47622/9781928331599
          a9f5b6d5-f429-482e-8821-dda939b9725a
          9781928331605

          Published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ( CC BY 4.0). Users are allowed to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially), as long as the authors and the publisher are explicitly identified and properly acknowledged as the original source.

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          The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
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          The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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