IpeaData: 13yrs of Open Government Data in Brazil
Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives are gaining momentum in Brazil in the last year. Five thousand people participated in Consegi, an OGD conference in May. The federal government supports opening of its data and is defining protocols and standards for data publishing. Legislation soon to be voted will make publishing of public data mandatory.
Yet, publication of public data on-line has a longer history in Brazil, although not associated with the OGD term. In particular, the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) created IPEADATA which publishes geographically desegregated time series on Brazilian financial, demographic, macroeconomic, governmental expenditure and social indicators. Since its first publication on-line in 1999, the platform has grown to include 10,000 curated datasets, along with corresponding metadata, and became the leading government data portal in Brazil.
This talk will briefly present the spectrum recent and longer term OGD initiatives in Brazil and assess areas of success and challenges. We will also present work done and lessons learned from 13yrs of OGD at IpeaData and future plans for the platform (API, visualizations).
by Lucas F Mation on July 1st at 14:30 in Track I
Lucas F Mation is an economist at the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea), a federal government think-thank that provides technical support on the planning and evaluation public policy in Brazil. Lucas is involved in OGD and citizen science initiatives at IPEA. His other research interests are environmental policy, energy economics and applied econometrics. Lucas is a University of São Paulo economics graduate and hold an M.S. from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) (2010).
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Ola! Okcon, Thanks for your thoughts, I just want to know different people’s opinions. I believe that each person will naturally want different things from their government, and I seek to find out if this is true. In which case, there is no best government for all but only best government for the individual.
I am asking best government in the world based on country, but not necessarily best country (climate, population, culture, etc can influence this). I am NOT asking best government system (democracy, republic, totalitarian, socialist democracy, etc)
So what do you believe is the best government in the world? You can choose from any region OR time period. Wishes