**3.2 Open data best practice**

The European Data Portal published a report in the year 2020 highlighting the best open data practices implemented by the three top performing countries of the year 2019 assessment - Cyprus, France and Ireland. The reported practices may be applicable to other international contexts. The practices were categorized into four aspects relating to open data, namely, Open Data Policy, Open Data Portal, Open Data Impact, and Open Data Quality. **Table 2** shows the best practices associated with each one of these aspects.


#### **Table 2.** *Open data best practices [33].*
