[Public Comments]: Draft Comment on Open Data Initiative Datasets and Metadata

[Raoul Plommer]

Sorry for being late in returning to this, but could we add a sentence or
just a small list on why opening data is commendable?

Open data offers benefits in many areas and ICANN could gain from:

   - Transparency and democratic control
   - Participation
   - Self-empowerment
   - Improved or new private products and services
   - Innovation
   - Improved efficiency of services
   - Improved effectiveness of services
   - Impact measurement of policies
   - New knowledge from combined data sources and patterns in large data
   volumes


-Raoul

On 26 July 2018 at 13:54, Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com> wrote:

> Hi Sam,
>
> I have made some rather substantial (proposed) edits to this statement
> now. In response to your comment, I have cited recommendation 10.5 of the
> Accountability and Transparency Review 2, and called for ICANN to provide
> non-commercial stakeholders with the resources required in order to
> interrogate and analyse this data.
>
> The Policy Committee is looking over this comment now (hence my last
> minute edits), but if there are any additional comments/suggestions that
> anyone has, we would still be able to consider them if they are added to
> the document today:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZmWcncubvRV572mZyU0pRKTkgD8K7
> sT4qPXcn01lk0U/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ayden Férdeline
>
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On 23 July 2018 9:02 PM, Sam Lanfranco <lanfran at YORKU.CA> wrote:
>
> Colleagues,
>
> While I fully endorse as much open data access for ICANN as is possible,
> without compromising personal privacy, I am sobered by the general view
> that in Open Government Data most of the benefits go to the deep pocketed
> stakeholders (corporate entities) that have the financial resources to mine
> the data.
>
> Giving civil society access, without it having research resources, leaves
> it dependent on those few academics who will mine the data in the public
> interest, or when it just occasionally catches data outliers that raise
> concerns.
>
> Sam L.,
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:54 PM, Raphaël Beauregard-Lacroix <
> <rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com>rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Elsa, hi all,
>>
>> Thank you and the team for taking the time for drafting the comment. I
>> find that the points raised in the comment are indeed relevant!  From a
>> broader perspective, it is good that ICANN has plans to publish more data -
>> I can see a lot of potential for qualitative and quantitative research here
>> in various fields of social sciences!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>
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