Citizen Engagement with Open Government Data: Lessons learned from Indonesia’s Presidential Election

Purpose: Citizen engagement is key to the success of many Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives. However, not much is known regarding how this type of engagement emerges. This study aims to investigate the necessary conditions for the emergence of citizen-led engagement with OGD and to identify which factors stimulate this type of engagement...

Citizens’ Motivations for Engaging in Open Data Hackathons

Engaging citizens in open data hackathons provides opportunities for innovation and the generation of new services and products. This paper aims to explore the motivations of citizens who engage in open agriculture data hackathons. We conducted a case study and analyzed data collected from 161 participants of 11 farming hackathons held between...

A privacy risk assessment model for open data

While the sharing of information has turned into a typical practice for governments and organizations, numerous datasets are as yet not openly published since they may violate users’ privacy. The hazard on data protection infringement is a factor that regularly hinders the distribution of information and results in a push back from...

How to improve policy making using open data in Virtual Research Environments? An interactive workshop discussing privacy, security and trust strategies

Governments and publicly-funded research institutions increasingly open up data collected and created through research. One way to share and use data obtained through research is through Virtual Research Environments (VREs). Insights obtained through open data use in VREs can subsequently provide input for policy making. However, this process...

The wicked problem of commercial value creation in open data ecosystems: Policy guidelines for governments

Creating commercial value through open data use in open data ecosystems is a wicked problem. This problem is characterized by a lack of specific formulation, complex interactions amongst a variety of stakeholders, a lack of criteria determining a satisfactory solution, including what constitutes `value', and uncertain outcomes. Wicked problems...

Acceptance and use predictors of open data technologies: Drawing upon the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology