Open Data in Southeast Asia Towards Economic Prosperity, Government
This book explores the power of greater openness, accountability, and transparency in digital information and government data for the nations of Southeast Asia. The author demonstrates that, although the term “open data” seems to be self-explanatory, it i
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Manuel Stagars
Open Data in Southeast Asia
Manuel Stagars
Open Data in Southeast Asia Towards Economic Prosperity, Government Transparency, and Citizen Participation in the ASEAN
Manuel Stagars Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) Singapore
ISBN 978-3-319-32169-1 ISBN 978-3-319-32170-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32170-7
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PREFACE
In early 2015, I began a project at Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) to create a database from publicly available statistics in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China, and India. The unavailability of granular and timely data and large differences in data quality between countries in Southeast Asia made the project more complex than I imagined at the beginning. Several portals with open government data in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have recently emerged in the image of the pioneers in the field, the USA (data.gov) and the UK (data.gov. uk). Would open data in Southeast Asia provide a similar experience with datasets observing common standa
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