Section 1. Building the foundation for open data

This section offers insights, tools and guidance to help organisations lay the foundations for publishing open data

This section helps you to understand:

• what open data is,

• why some data might can't be made openly available,

• how to assess if your organisation is ready to publish open data, and

• how to assess if your organisation's data practices are ethical

Use the tiles below to navigate to each sub-section.

A basic introduction to open data

Understanding our rights to access data

Open data maturity

Ethics and transparency