The purpose of these rules and regulations are to comply with Joint Memorandum Circulars No. 2014-01 (Re: Open Data Philippine) and 2015-01 (Re: Guidelines for the Implementation of the Open Government Data General Provision in the 2015 General Appropriations Act) of OPS, DBM, and PCDSPO .

Section 21.0 of the JMC 2014-01 (under the Heading Constituent Units) classifies “All State Universities and Colleges (SUCs)” as part of “Participating Agencies” along with “All Departments, Agencies, […] Government-Owned and/or - Controlled Corporations (GOCCs)”.

Section 22.0 and 22.1 of the same mandates the Participating Agencies to “cooperate and actively support Open Data” by “Designating an Open Data Champion who should have the capacity and the competency to make pertinent executive decisions on behalf of the agency with regard to this initiative”

Section 22.1 provides the qualification of the Open Data Champion as thus:

• may or may not be the Head of Agency but should have a rank not lower than Assistant Director or equivalent. [Point of Discussion - equivalent positions in terms of the UP Diliman Campus]
• Recommended to be the agency's Chief Information Officer or head of its data, statistics, and/or research unit [Point of Discussion - equivalent positions in UP Diliman; note that this qualification is directory and not mandatory as it is only “recommended”].

JMC 2015-01 expands on the foregoing by reiterating the mandate of the Open Data Champion in Section 15.0 thereof wherein it is stated that “[E]ach agency's designated Open Data Champion or any personnel designated by the said Champion shall publish its datasets, through data.gov.ph, in addition to their respective agency websites.” [emphasis provided]

Section 15.1 of JMC 2015-01 clarifies that the Agency Open Data Champion is mandated to “be designated by the Head of Agency to be the primary liaison between the Agency and the Task Force. Adding to the recommended qualifications found in JMC 2014-01, Section 15.1 of JMC 2015-01 states that the Agency Open Data Champion “should have the capacity and the competency to make pertinent executive decisions on behalf of the agency with regard to this initiative.” [Points of Discussion: - (i) the Agency Open Data Champion is 'designated' and is thus without official compensation; (ii) by Agency is meant the University of the Philippines Diliman Campus, by Task Force is meant the Government Task Force on Open Data; (iii) narrow down the list of equivalent positions to those who can “make pertinent executive decisions on behalf of UP Diliman with regard to the Open Data Initiative”.]

Lastly, the files annexed to JMC 2015-01 serve as a guide to the following rules and regulations.

# The [UP Diliman Technical Working Group on Open Data] is a body mandated to administer and implement the UP Diliman Open Data Policy, and to monitor and ensure compliance of the UP Diliman Campus with the Government’s standards for Open Data.

• credit or acknowledgment
• if data is changed or new datasets created using open data, resulting dataset should also be shared as open data
• Open Data Manager(Champion: publish thru data.gov.ph)

Shall entertain feedback and engagement from users of any of its datasets

• Open Data Team
  

Data management, research or statistics
Asst team leader
Data custodian data administrator – inventory
Communications staff
Web manager  Data infographics designer

• Creation of Data
• Collection of Data
• Processing of Data
• Dissemination/Accessibility of Data
• Disposal of Data
• Uploading/Downloading Data
  

Content
Form