  There are many initiatives of transparency reported in the access and use of
government open data for different purposes. This practice reveals an important
requirement to accomplish the participatory governance. The literature has
reported a minimal set of criteria to categorize a specific data repository as
open. This paper discusses to which extent specific national and international
data repositories address these criteria. The analyzed repositories focus on
public health and prison systems. The results show different levels of
alignment to the criteria and provide evidence that the adoption of government
open data practices are a reality. On the other hand, there is still a long way
to achieve full alignment to the stated criteria.
