Hi,all: I attended an international forum of e-gov held at Fudan University two weeks ago and at the venue, Mr TANG DingChun, the deputy director of open gov information department of Shanghai Gov office, shared the Shanghai Gov's plan on open data .
His talk revealed that the current mayor YANG xiong was and possible still am in charge of the whole open data initiative. He said the Shanghai Gov has interest in open data back to 2011, and a scholar's white paper helped them start the whole plan. They ran a pilot program with several departments last year and launched the DataShanghai in the end of last year. He acknowledged that the data released on DataShanghai are really simple and basic. This is because they currently do not want to take any risk of releasing anything that may contain privacy data or confidential information. So basic location data are really safe choice. He mentioned that the Shanghai Gov plans to ask all departments to register their data resources on their internal platform first so they could have a clear view of what data they actually have by the end of next year. After that they will go to refine their strategy of data management to prepare for opening data. He also discussed the license issue. Shanghai gov considers allowing departments actually to charge fees in the beginning so they will be encouraged to open more data. But later, when the ecosystem of open data grows, they will be pushed to make all data free. More details are blogged on my blog ( http://feng-gao.github.io/okfncn/2013/11/04/open-data-in-china-govs-thoughts/#sthash.3r7X9LHt.dpbs ) Your thoughts and advices are really welcomed and appreciated thanks Feng -- Feng GAO <http://about.me/feng_gao> | @okfncnfenggao<http://twitter.com/okfncnfenggao> | skype: fenggaosh Ambassador@China, Open Knowledge Foundation OKF China Local Group (开放知识基金会中国) <http://cn.okfn.org> Weibo: @开放知识基金会中国 <http://weibo.com/okfncn> |Twitter: @okfncn<http://twitter.com/okfncn> Join Discussion on the maillist<http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-cn>or Google+ Community <https://plus.google.com/communities/107913594667636511717>
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