The Open Data Barometer is only possible thanks to the participation of a wide network of contributors. Our thanks to the following (by alphabetic order):

Lead global report authors: Ana Brandusescu, Carlos Iglesias and Kristen Robinson.

Contributing Authors: Jose M. Alonso, Craig Fagan, Anne Jellema and Dillon Mann.

Research coordination: Carlos Iglesias.

Regional partners:The Caribbean Open Institute(COI), Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos(ILDA), Open Data in Europe and Central Asia(ODECA), and the Open Data Labs.

Methodological updates: Jose M. Alonso and Carlos Iglesias.

Website, data explorer and visualisations: Ana Brandusescu, Craig Fagan, Carlos Iglesias and the teams from Simbiosys and Ubiqware.

Design of PDF report: Nacho Quesada.

Illustrations for the PDF report: Eladio Domínguez

Main researchers: Gyanu Adhikari, Hatem Ben Yacoub, Ana Brandusescu, Frederico Cavazzini, Ravi Chhabra, Pierre Chrzanowski, Veronica Cretu, Feng Gao, Miguel García González, Shurland George, Jan Gondol, Felipe González, Elisabeth Häggquist, Kaltrina Hoxha, Thorhildur Jetzek, Hiroichi Kawashima, Abed Khooli, Haklae Kim, Katarina Kosmina, Mary Loitsker, Glenn Maail, Leonard Mack, Krzysztof Madejski, Ikrom Mamadov, Michelle McLeod, Claude Migisha, Maurizio Napolitano, Mikhail Parfentev, Vinand Prayag, Adhitya Randy, Igbal Safarov, Marco Sošić, Rayna Stamboliyska, Michail Vafopoulos, François van Schalkwyk and Lunette Warren.

Peer-reviewers: Hatem Ben Yacoub, Ana Brandusescu, Michael Canares, Shurland George, Felipe González, Vigan Hoxha, Carlos Iglesias, Jorina Kadare, Natalia Karkanitsa, Abed Khooli, Michelle McLeod, Andreas Pawelke, Tania Pendersen, François van Schalkwyk, Olena Ursu and Lunette Warren.

Governments participating in the self-assessment: Albania, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Ghana, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Kosovo (Republic of), Latvia, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Uruguay.

QA team: Jose M. Alonso, Ana Brandusescu, Michael Canares, Craig Fagan, Carlos Iglesias, Andreas Pawelke and François van Schalkwyk.

Note: Some other participants, including researchers, reviewers and governments, have asked to remain anonymous.

Data sources: We are thankful to the following organisations whose data we draw upon in the secondary data portion of the Barometer:

• World Economic Forum
• World Bank Group
• Freedom House
• United Nations

Funding: The 3rd edition of the Barometer was supported by the Open Data for Development (OD4D) programme, a partnership funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the World Bank, United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), and Global Affairs Canada (GAC).

This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada and the Omidyar Network.