标准化 GitHub 上的报告 国际发展指标， 公共政策和经济.pdf

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ReportonstandardizedGitHub

metricsforinternationaldevelopment,

publicpolicy,andeconomics

BasedonthereporttoGitHubbyTattleCivicTech

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Lastupdated:1September2023

ThisreportisundertheCCby4.0license

TattleCivicTech(“Tattle”)wasselectedtoleadtheresearchproject,anddeliveredtheresearchoutputs

thatformedthebasisofthisreport.ThereportwaswrittenbyTarunimaPrabhakar,Co-Founderand

ResearchLeadofTattle,andMalaKumar,formerDirectorofTechforSocialGoodatGitHub.Upasana

Bhattacharjee,ResearcheratTattle,andSwastikaMohapatra,DataScienceInternatTattle,were

contributingauthors.ContributingeditorswereYashBudhwar,OperationsandCommunicationsLeadat

Tattle,andGitHubstaff:CynthiaLo,Skills-BasedVolunteeringProgramManager;PeterCihon,Senior

PolicyManager;AbbyRieflin,SeniorCorporateCommunicationsManager;CaffreyLynch,Senior

CorporateCommunicationsSpecialist.SpecialthanksgotoKevinXu,SeniorSoftwareEngineerat

GitHub,aswellasthemanyinternationaldevelopment,publicpolicy,economics,andacademicexperts

whowereinterviewedaspartoftheresearch.

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Executivesummary

Thereisincreasingdemandfordatathatcontextualizestheimpactofsoftwarecollaborationsacross

geographies.GitHubisthelargestglobalplatformforcodecollaboration,andthusdataaggregatedover

itspublicactivityisuniquelyinsightfulforresearchersandpractitionersworkinginrelatedfields,suchas

internationaldevelopment,publicpolicy,andeconomics.Thisreportmapsthedataneedsof

researchersandpractitionersinthesefieldstothedatasharingpossibilitiesatGitHub.Inordertobetter

understandtheneedsofthecommunity,GitHubengagedTattletodiscoverhowprivatesecto