The Importance of Open Data Policy to Tackle Pandemic in Latin America

10/27/2021

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by   Josimar Chire, et al.

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Open Data Policies can provide transparency, impulse innovation and citizenship participation. Access to the right data in right time can produce huge benefits to population. But, in Latin America there is not enough interest from governments to promote and use properly. By the other hand, global pandemic has caused many damages in different levels, i.e. Economy, Public Health, Education, etc. The paper opens a discussion about the importance of Open Data Policy to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 and overpass this problem.