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[Image omitted] - During its summit in Northern Ireland, the G8 issued a declaration (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/g8-lough-erne-declaration/g8-lough-erne-declaration-html-version) and signed an Open Data Charter on June 18, stating their intent to promote machine readable and publicly-available government data.
"G8 members will, by the end of this year, develop action plans, with a view to implementation of the Charter and technical annex by the end of 2015 at the latest. We will review progress at our next meeting in 2014," says the charter.
In signing the charter, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom agree to, "while working with our national political and legal frameworks," five basic principles:
Open data by default: establish an expectation that government data be published openly but recognize there are legitimate reasons some data cannot...