Open Data as a Condition for Smart Application Development: Assessing Access to Hospitals in Croatian Cities

This research aims to assess available spatial open data related to access to hospitals in the three largest Croatian cities (Zagreb, Split, Rijeka), with a future aim to create digital services as an ecosystem that will be used in everyday situations, as part of the concept of “digital society”. Data analysis is performed for the following...

Readiness for Re-Use of Open Government Data for Solving Societal Problems Based on Public Participation: Kindergartens in the City of Zagreb

Over the last decade, open data has become a hot topic that researchers and governments all over the world are eager to explore. The term first appeared in a 1995 document from an American scientific agency (Chignard, 2013), but its popularity increased when the U.S. president, Barrack Obama, signed the 2009 Memorandum on Transparency and Open...