Commons licence. Other institutions recognize that the direct target audience for open data is the development community not the wider public and so require registration. This is a useful strategy for managing updates and changes that could affect content and performance of applications derived from the data. An important consideration when providing open data is the structure and ensuring that it is readable and meaningful (to both people and machines). Akoma Ntoso is an international attempt, originated in the pan-African context, to define a ‘machine-readable’ set of simple XML-based and technology- neutral representations of parliamentary, legislative and judicial documents and has now.
