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Contributing to the Census

How it works

  1. Submission: Contributors submit information about the availability (or not) of key datasets in their country (for example Budgets in Brasil).
  2. Review: submissions are reviewed by a Country Editor before being posted live on the website.
  3. Assessment: Country Editors either approve (with or without amendments) or reject the submission.
  4. Published: if approved, these submissions become an official entry in the Open Data Index and are displayed on the website.

To get an idea of what we are looking for check out the submission form.

FAQs, Mailing List and Getting Assistance

We suggest joining the Open Data Census discussion list especially if you want to discuss something or need assistance.

There is a detailed FAQ complementing the instructions below.

Want to email someone? You can email the managing editors directly at census@okfn.org.

Get Started

Submit new information

Anyone can submit new information to the Census.

  1. Select your country in the list below and click on it.
  2. You are now on the Country overview page for that country
  3. Click the blue "Submit Information" button on the right next to the appropriate category.
  4. Fill the form based on the dataset you have found.
  5. In addition below is a set of additional FAQs and help that you can use
  6. Click Submit. Your submission is now waiting for review, and will be visible in the table

Propose a change to an existing entry

An example of a change would be updating on the availability of a dataset, or an update of the link to the data.

  1. Go to the correct country by clicking it.
  2. On the Country overview page, click the blue "Submit Information" button on the right next to the appropriate category.
  3. Fill in the form based on the changes you want to make to the existing data.
  4. Click Submit. Your submission is now waiting for review, and will be visible in the table as 'awaiting review' after a few minutes.

Review submissions

Only Census editors can review submissions. If you'd like to become an editor email the Census team.

  1. Select your country in the list below
  2. On your Country overview page click "View Submission" on a pending submission
    • No "View Submission" visible? This means there are no pending submissions and nothing for you to do! All done!
    • You will be prompted to log in if you are not logged in at this point
  3. You will be taken to the review page where there will be instructions
    • Remember you can edit the submission - and incorporate material from the current entry (if there is one). Comments can be particularly valuable, so consider merging old and new comments.
  4. Publish or Reject
    • If submission is incorrect or lower quality than existing entry, click Reject.
    • If submission is better than existing entry click Publish. Note that if you choose to publish the submission you are reviewing, it will overwrite the old submission entirely! So think carefully whether you need to merge any content first.
    • Note that you might need to refresh the site to see the greyed-out queued entry you've just processed disappear.