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Governments leading by example with public sector data (Data-Driven Innovation: Big Data for Growth and Well-Being)
This chapter examines the benefits and challenges of opening access to data from one of the economy’s most data-intensive sectors, the public sector. The potential of public sector information (PSI) including open government data (OGD) is discussed from several perspectives: use by government itself which, in tandem with data analytics, can make for better informed policy making and enable delivery of more innovative services; open access for citizens, which can greatly improve accountability through transparency and lead to citizens’ empowerment; and reuse in the private sector, a stimulus to innovation. The challenges in implementing open data strategies are also enumerated, including dissuasive pricing and licensing practices; differences in licensing systems across national institutions; lack of information and standards and poor interoperability; organisational and cultural obstacles within the public sector; and legal constraints. The chapter concludes with a number of recommended policy options.

Country Reports

- Benefits receipt and youth poverty in Latvia (Investing in Youth: Latvia), 2015
- Youth labour market outcomes in Latvia (Investing in Youth: Latvia), 2015
- Assessment and policy options (Investing in Youth: Latvia), 2015
- Austria: Der Mikrokredit (“Microcredit”) (The Missing Entrepreneurs 2015: Policies for Self-employment and Entrepreneurship), 2015
- Access to Work, United Kingdom (Inclusive Business Creation: Good Practice Compendium), 2016
Thematic Reports

- Widening the distribution of high quality educational resources (Open Educational Resources: A Catalyst for Innovation), 2015
- Access to finance: Venture capital (Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2015), 2015
- Alternative debt as a source of finance for SMEs (New Approaches to SME and Entrepreneurship Financing: Broadening the Range of Instruments), 2015
- Applying the framework for innovation (The Innovation Imperative: Contributing to Productivity, Growth and Well-Being), 2015
- An overview of the digital economy (OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2015), 2015
What Countries are Doing
Published by OECD in 2015