1. Recent Developments in Open Data Policy
Paul F. Uhlir, JD Scholar, National Academy of Sciences SciDataCon/International Data Week Denver, CO, USA 13 September 2016

2. Recent Developments in Open Data Policy
Open data policies have become much more supported internationally in recent years. There are many sources in diverse countries, including governmental research policymakers and funders, foundations, data centers, universities, publishers, and discipline groups themselves. Policy statements from the research community in just the period alone, which endorse and promote openness to research data derived from public funding, are significant:
The African Data Consensus (UNECA 2014)
The CODATA Nairobi Principles for Data Sharing for Science and Development in Developing Countries (PASTD, CODATA 2014)
The Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age (LIBER 2014).
Policy Guidelines for Open Access and Data Dissemination and Preservation (RECODE 2015)
Accord on Open Data in a Big Data World (Science International 2015).

3. Recent Developments in Open Data Policy
Accord on Open Data in a Big Data World, issued by Science International in 2015.
The International Council for Science – ICSU
The InterAcademy Partnership – IAP
The World Academy of Sciences – TWAS, and
The International Social Science Council - ISSC)
which are designed to represent the global scientific community in the international policy for science arena.

4. Recent Developments in Open Data Policy
Members of the authoring committee were:
Geoffrey Boulton, University of Edinburgh and President of CODATA, Working Group Chair.
Dominique Babini, University of Buenos Aires and CLACSO (ISSC representative)
Simon Hodson, Executive Director CODATA (ICSU representative)
Jianhui Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CNI (IAP representative)
Tshilidzi Marwala, University of Johannesburg (TWAS representative)
Maria G. N. Musoke, Makerere University, Uganda, (IAP representative)
Paul F. Uhlir, Scholar, US National Academy of Sciences (IAP representative)
Sally Wyatt, Maastricht University, & eHumanities, KNAW (ISSC representative)

5. Recent Developments in Open Data Policy
It identified opportunities and challenges, including:
The open data imperative (making optimal use of digital networks for public science)
Maintaining self-correction (enabling verification of research results)
Adapting scientific reasoning (to new digital technology advances)
Ethical constraints (maintaining privacy, loss of control, and due recognition and reward)
Open global participation (equitable participation of scientists in LMICs)
Responsibilities of government research funders and international NGOs to advance openness
Maintaining proper balance in open science and stimulating public knowledge

6. Recent Developments in Open Data Policy
Principles:
The roles of scientists, research institutions and universities, publishers, funding agencies, professional non-governmental associations and societies, and data repositories and libraries in managing open data.
Maintaining the boundaries of openness, with open data as the default rule.
Fostering enabling practices, including:
The implementation of proper data citation protocols
Promoting data interoperability
Ensuring non-restrictive reuse for open data
Linking open data to other relevant resources to maximize semantic value

7. Recent Developments in Open Data Policy
Questions for discussion:
Identify appropriate meeting for co-location in francophone Africa in 2017
Who to invite among the stakeholders in the research process
Issues on which to focus—are the ones raised in the Accord the correct ones for promoting open data in LMICs?