Creating value through opening up data by commercial companies: A case study at PostNL Data Solutions

In recent years the growth in the amount of available data has increased enormously. More and more companies, government organizations and citizens are becoming data dependent. Simultaneously with this growth in the availability of the amount of data, there is increasing interest in opening up this data. Open data is data that is freely...

Value Drivers and Inhibitors in Municipal Open Government Data Ecosystems: An in-depth analysis of stakeholder perceptions on values, barriers and success factors in open government data initiatives in Dutch municipalities

Research context<br/><br/>Open government data (OGD) publication and use is an important feature of an open government. However, In Dutch municipalities, the presumed created value from municipal OGD fails to live up to its potential, despite various OGD initiatives. Furthermore, there is a lack of knowledge about how value creating mechanisms...

Measuring citizen preferences for the Dutch Education Open Data Policy: A Path towards Citizen-Informed Decision Making

This thesis discusses the way individuals in their role as citizens make trade-offs between open education data attributes. The Dutch government agencies lack of insight in the citizen preferences for open data policy attributes lead them to evaluate and develop their open data policy only from the data provider perspective. In order to address...

Policy recommendations to improve data quality in the electricity chain

Data quality is essential in the modern world. The higher the quality of the data, the more information, knowledge and thereby wisdom can be retrieved. Besides better wisdom high quality data has another advantage: it can save costs since errors can be avoided. Low quality data is costing a lot of money to companies and will lead to information...

Open data bij de gemeente Delft: perspectieven van de inwoners op het beleid