Open Data

RAIC : The right to access information is the right of the individual to have access to information held by the public authorities. 

To strengthen national institutional coordination on open data, the Commission made significant strides towards establishing a foundation for a comprehensive open data initiative following an Open Data Readiness Assessment (ODRA). Through its open data component, it is at present coordinating the Open Data and Data Compact processes in Sierra Leone and undertaking programmes in the Open Data Readiness Assessment in collaboration with national, bilateral and multilateral agencies.

The Commission has also adopted a multi-sectoral approach in establishing an Open Data Council in a bid to strengthen national institutional coordination around open data. It is coordinating the activities of the sixty (60) multi-sectorial and multi-disciplinary members in the Open Data Council comprising the Ministry of Information and Communication, Open Data Professionals, Academics, CSOs, Private sector and MDAs. With this, it has also gone ahead to establish three committees namely: the Ministerial Committee, National Steering Committee and Technical Advisory Committee.

Five Key ministers sit at the Ministerial Committee level with the Minister of Information and Communications sitting as Chairman while the RAIC chairs the Open Data Council. To effectively and efficiently operationalize the Open Data Portal for Sierra Leone (www.opendatasl.gov.sl) the Commission is collaborating with the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) for a technical guidance and support while the Commission is providing overall management. Due to the major shifts in society driven by technological advances in the collection, analysis and use of large data sets that has become commonplace, the Commission is providing training and support to Public Information Officers and civil society organizations (non-state actors) to enable them to keep pace with global developments in the public and private sectors, so that they can continue to relate as well as mediate between increasing complex social groups and sectors in a digitalized future.

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