Open Data Philippines is an open source Drupal-based platform, that currently houses more than 600 datasets on categories such as economics, labour, transport and traffic, environment, geospatial data, health, education and many more.
Richard Moya, Under Secretary and CIO of the Department of Budget and Management told FutureGov that: “Open source is a collaborative platform that gives governments the capability to make their open data initiatives more powerful. Since Open data is all about unlocking the data, we have to practice what we preach, that’s why it’s definitely open source and open standards all the way for us.”
“While launching the open data portal is clearly a big achievement for us, the number of datasets we currently have is not enough. Because of this, we’re working closely with more civil society organisations and the World Bank to increase the number of datasets by a thousand more, and to develop a new set of open government commitments.”
Hackathons, for example, will continue to be an integral part of the Philippines’ open data initiatives. In fact, Moya referred to hackathons as the “discipleship of the open data gospel”.
“Supplying data is not enough. Governments should leverage the citizens’ pent up desire to solve problems in the community by showing them how they can use data to develop meaningful and impactful applications. Taking off from the successes of our previous hackathons, we hope to see more participants next month as we promote the use of climate-related data to citizens.”
Apart from hosting hackathons, Moya also revealed that an open source-based transparency portal on the ongoing reconstruction efforts in areas ravaged by Super Typhoon Haiyan is currently in the works and is expected to go live on June.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Clarice Africa
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 06.03.2014
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