Print Email Facebook Twitter Evaluation of a Pilot Game to Change Civil Servants’ Willingness Towards Open Data Policy Making Title Evaluation of a Pilot Game to Change Civil Servants’ Willingness Towards Open Data Policy Making Author Kleiman, F. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Meijer, Sebastiaan (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Contributor Wardaszko, Marcin (editor) Meijer, Sebastiaan (editor) Lukosch, Heide (editor) Kanegae, Hidehiko (editor) Kriz, Willy Christian (editor) Grzybowska-Brzezińska, Mariola (editor) Date 2021 Abstract The adoption of open data policy-making by governments is limited due to different types of constraints. Civil servants are reluctant to open their data to the public for many reasons. The lack of knowledge of benefits that can be produced by the release of data and the overestimation of risks and operational complexity seems to decrease their willingness to support the opening of data. The idea that a serious game intervention can change awareness of participants in different domains is already known. Yet, games are domain dependent and concepts differ per domain. A game has never been used for the emerging domain of open data in which civil servants are operating in a bureaucratic environment having a risk-averse culture and strict institutional rules. A role-playing game prototype was designed for civil servants to experience open data policy-making. This paper analyses its first results aiming at changes of perception for the participants of the game and aims to understand the changes in behavior of civil servants that played it. For some participants, the game influenced their attitude, whereas others were not influenced. Suggesting that different approaches might be necessary for changing the attitude of different groups. Subject DesignGameOpen dataOpen governmentQuasi-experimentSurvey To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:374ead29-6fa8-45b2-a996-1d92e72f29cb DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72132-9_3 Publisher Springer Embargo date 2021-09-27 ISBN 9783030721312 Source Simulation Gaming Through Times and Disciplines - 50th International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference, ISAGA 2019, Revised Selected Papers Event 50th International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference, ISAGA 2019, 2019-08-26 → 2019-08-30, Warsaw, Poland Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 0302-9743, 11988 LNCS Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2021 F. Kleiman, M.F.W.H.A. Janssen, Sebastiaan Meijer Files PDF Kleiman2021_Chapter_Evalu ... Change.pdf 1.04 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:374ead29-6fa8-45b2-a996-1d92e72f29cb/datastream/OBJ/view