Woo can tell me what I'm looking for?: An in-depth study on the Information Search Process that is part of Freedom of Information request handling at Ministries of the Dutch National Government

The “Wet open overheid” or Woo is a law that facilitates access to government information for Dutch citizens and states that “everyone has the right to access government information without having to show an interest in it, subject to the limitations provided for by this law.” This law is the Dutch embodiment of a Freedom of Information (FOI)...

Changing civil servants’ behaviour concerning the opening of governmental data.: Evaluating the effect of a game by comparing civil servants’ intentions before and after a game intervention

Open data policies are increasingly being adopted by governments. However, civil servants find it challenging to comply with open data policies. Gaming can help civil servants to practise opening data and can change their behaviour to support the opening of more data. In this article, the effect of playing a game is evaluated in an experiment...

Exploring the implementation blind spots: Selective Decoupling of Freedom of Information

The right to know under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act in the UK has made public authorities as the duty-bearer, often making them to selectively decouple practices from policies. This has resulted in disclosing data that may derail from the intended goals of open government. By analyzing the top fifty requesters who made 34,314...