Open Access and Open Data in VietnamCurrent Status and Challenges

Yangon, 27/2/2017

Content

Our own stories

Challenges

The government policy

Q&A

The government policy

Vietnam passes Access to Information Law 2016 “All citizens are equal and there will be no

discrimination in the right to access information”.

The government policy

Law on Land 2016 Article 28:

• The government establishes and manganese the land information system to secure the rights of all citizens to access land information

• The government take the responsibility to provide land information for individuals and organisations in the legal framework.

The E-government Central government portal Local/province government portals Ministry’s portals

Bringing the government closer to the citizens = Transparency

Issues and challenges

Good in “statements” but a long journey to the practice We need a “practice policy”

Attitudes about OPEN and different approaches OPEN

Open standards/Open technologiesCopyright, License

OPEN DATA process in Vietnam

Open Access

Open Sources

Open Data

Open Educational Resources

Gratis Open Access

Libre Open Access

CC BY-NC-ND

CC BYCC BY-SA

Six standard licenses

Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. It is the leading trend in distance education/open and distance learning domain as a consequence of the openness movement.

Open Educational Resources Approach

Stakeholders

LecturersStudents

OER Ecosyst

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Government

UniversitiesAccrediting

organizations

Libraries

Technology corporations

Land data center

Land planning authority in Hanoi, Vietnam

The National Land Data CenterFist stage: Gratis Open Access

CC BY-NC-NDFuture: Libre Open Access

CC BYCC BY-SA

Information is liberating

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