Open Data Initiative

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About
The purpose of the Open Data Initiative is to increase public access to valuable, machine readable datasets provided by various Government Bodies and their subsidiaries to be used by any interested parties and the general public for development and research projects. Also refer to Wikipedia's page on Open Data

Source(s): Open Data Initiative

Ongoing Regional Initiatives
We suggest using the following template to create a page for your country. (feel free to modify the format as per your needs)

List in Alphabetical order:


 * Bangladesh
 * India
 * Nepal
 * Pakistan
 * Philippines
 * Sri Lanka
 * Taiwan

Source(s): Open Data Initiative

Resources

 * World Bank Open Data sets
 * Semantic-Web.at
 * Dataportability.org
 * Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN)
 * Data Science Toolkit - A collection of the best open data sets and open-source tools for data science, wrapped in an easy-to-use REST/JSON API with command line, Python and Javascript interfaces.


 * Other countries
 * Norway
 * United Kingdom (also data.gov.uk)
 * United States

Source(s): Open Data Initiative