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Hackathon - Fighting COVID-19 in Pakistan
The COVID-19 Pakistan Hackathon is an opportunity for coders, civic designers, project managers, educators, analysts and other professionals for building tech solutions to drive social impact and to fight global pandemics such as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. With spatial distancing at play, let’s create an online space where we can ideate, design, experiment and...

Datathon - Pakistan Data Weekend
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Datathon is postponed until further notice. Datathon is powered by Open Data Pakistan and National Center in Big Data and Cloud Computing (NCBC) at LUMS together with Ignite under MoITT and National Incubation Center Lahore. Pakistan Data Weekend competition aims to bring together coders, data enthusiasts, civic-minded designers, analysts, mappers and project...
User Guidelines
Download PDF 1. The purpose of Open Data Pakistan (ODP) is to create a culture of sharing data in an open format for the public good. 2. Only registered and approved organizations are able to access the platform as organization administrators to share data. 3. Please contact Open Data Pakistan to register as an organization...
Draft Policy on Open Data for the Government of...
Download PDF WHEREAS, most of the data collected by the Government of Pakistan (hereafter, “the government”) is stored in mediums which hamper the ability to synthesize, analyze, and aggregate information for the better allocation of public resources; and WHEREAS, access to public information encourages community engagement and allows residents of Pakistan to provide...
Making data open legally
Download PDF Open data must be legally available for open use. To make data publicly available, a suitable open data license must be applied. If data isn’t publicly available, then it is hard for others to use it (or even decide whether to use it). Explicit licensing is essential to provide clarity and certainty to users and reusers (and is needed even if data is to be in the...
Terms of Service
Download PDF 1. The purpose of Open Data Pakistan (ODP) is to create a culture of sharing data in an open format for the public good. 2. Guidelines for sharing sensitive or private information and protected datasets a) As part of the publishing process, data can be classified as per the following[1]: Level 1...
Guidelines
User Guidelines The purpose of Open Data Pakistan (ODP) is to create a culture of sharing data in an open format for the public good. Making Data Open Legally Open data must be legally available for open use. To make data publicly available, a suitable open data license must be applied. If data isn’t publicly available, then it is hard for others to use it or decide...
What Is Open Data?
Open Data is Data That Anyone Can Access, Use and Share. Governments, Businesses And Individuals Can Use Open Data to Bring About Social, Economic And Environmental Benefits. Specifically, open data needs to be A. Legally open: that is, available under an open (data) license that permits anyone to freely access, reuse and redistribute B. Technically open: that is, the data be available...