Key stakeholder groups for digital innovation of agriculture in Croatia

The current readiness of the agricultural sector in Croatia to transform is limited. Creating and using an open data ecosystem in which data truly is the main force of the innovation process offers an opportunity to strengthen cooperation in this sector. The stakeholders of the agricultural data ecosystem in Croatia were not investigated until...

De slimme, open stad: de menselijke maat in de datagedreven stad van 2050

De stad produceert 24 uur per dag onvoorstelbare hoeveelheden data. Een stroom gegevens op gebieden als transport, energie, milieu en gezondheid die alleen maar toeneemt. Data die steeds vaker als open data publiekelijk gedeeld worden. Maar ook data die binnen het domein van grote databedrijven als Google, Amazon, Facebook en Uber blijven en...

Open Data Exposed

This book is about open data, i.e. data that does not have any barriers in the (re)use. Open data aims to optimize access, sharing and using data from a technical, legal, financial, and intellectual perspective. Data increasingly determines the way people live their lives today. Nowadays, we cannot imagine a life without real-time traffic...

The Development of Open Data in The Netherlands

Open data in The Netherlands dates back to the 1990s when the Ministry of Internal Affairs published the memorandum‘Towards accessibility of government<br/>information’. More than two decades later, open data in The Netherlands has matured with the assignment of a responsible Ministry for open data, an open data vision and an open data action...

Towards a User-Oriented Open Data Strategy

The chapter explains that the single typical user of open government data does not exist. Therefore, data suppliers should take a five-step approach in the design of the user oriented policy: (1) define its objective(s) of open data, (2) recognise and identify the user types needed to arrive at the objectives, (3) assess the appropriateness of...

Funding Open Data

Open government data are fast becoming entrenched in our society. However, even though open government data may be “free”, it is not “gratis”. It takes substantial human and financial resources not only to collect and maintain government data, but also to process the data to be suitable for distribution as open data. Those resources need to be...

Exploring the Emergence of Open Spatial Data Infrastructures: Analysis of Recent Developments and Trends in Europe

In the past 20 years, European public authorities have invested considerable resources in the development of spatial data infrastructures. With the European INSPIRE Directive as an important driver, national spatial data infrastructures were developed throughout Europe to facilitate and coordinate the exchange and sharing of geographic data....

2050: The Story of Urbidata

At the moment of writing, we are witnessing a data revolution. In this chapter we present our perspective on the direction of the developments in the coming 30 years. By offering both a dystopian and a utopian vision on the (open) data world in 2050, we open the debate on the direction the use of open data should take. This final chapter...

The Acceptance and Use of Open Data infrastructures - Drawing upon UTAUT and ECT

While governments and researchers often focus on the opening of data through open data infrastructures, the adoption and use of open data infrastructures has received less attention, despite the fact that this use should result in the envisioned benefits. This study aims to examine to which extent and by which factors the acceptance and use of...