Taiwan has made progress on open data initiatives in recent years. Several key developments include: 1) The enactment of an open government data law in 2005, although there is no freedom of information act. 2) Active open data community events since 2008 that have engaged diverse stakeholders and transparency groups. 3) A draft "Open Data Regulation" under cabinet-level support for public consultation in 2013. 4) Support from all five major cities for open data programs.

1. From 0 to 5 Cities -
Open Data in Taiwan
TH Schee
Fertta Communications
W3C eGOV IG Jan 21, 2013

2. Overview of Open
Government Data in Taiwan
• PSI law enacted in 2005, no FOIA
• Open Data community events since 2008, key to
progression, vibrant and diverse interests engaged,
transparency groups rising
• "Open Data Regulation" in draft (as of Jan 2013), cabinet-
level support and public consultation (online)
• Public support from all 5 biggest cities
• Industrial-level "Open Data Alliance" in 2013

3. Data Portals:
Ministries
- Ministry of Culture launched
1st open data portal in 2012
- data.gov.tw scheduled on
04.2012, directory-based
http://cloud.culture.tw/opendata/

4. Data Portals:
City Govs
- Taipei (2011), New Taipei and
Taichung (2012), Tainan (2013)
- Contradicting terms
- Confusing policies
- OGDI based
- High-value datasets elsewhere

5. City Apps
- hundreds of them
- priority of local government
- low update frequency
- developers unfriendly

6. Multi-
stakeholders
Approach
- leveraging group dynamics
- data users involved
- innovate inside government
- media before
... and many enthusiasts
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7. FOIA &
Local Regulations
PSI bodies Government Clouds &
Private sectors Cloud Computing
NGO & Charities
Data Portals
Open Data
Strategy (TW)
Transparency
Current PSI
Expanding the initiative
boundary
Apps
Apps
@scheeinfo

8. Code legalization
(legal)
Think
Academia Tanks
financing
Data Portals (innovation)
organzation
NGOs
Tech
OSS
Startups community
Communities
Hackathon (transparency)
Code event
(software)