It seems that Open Data principles have made their way to the new government formed in March 2011. Here’s an extract from the coalition treaty:
8. Giving states’ digital assets to citizens and business:
- a. we make the spatial data public – to give citizens and businesses the opportunity to create their own public data services;
- b. we link the public registers (cadastre data and land register) and make their information available online 24/7;
- c. for transparency and simulating creation of new applications by private sector, we make the state and local government data available in machine-readable form (machine-readable public data);
- d. Our aim is that datasets made in cooperation between state and private parties would be available to businesses and individuals to
- develop their own applications.
The English translation of the full programme will hopefully soon make it’s way to the Estonian Government’s website.
