The Effects of Open Data Communities on Open Data Benefits and Barriers

Governmental organisations worldwide are working on their open data strategies and are openly sharing their data with the public. Recently also open data communities have been set up by several national governments. The effects of setting up these data communities on open data benefits and barriers and whether an effect exists at all is not yet...

Decision-making Support for Opening Government Data

Government institutions collect and produce an extraordinary number of datasets to conduct and execute their programs and agendas. Various types of datasets collected by the governments can increase transparency and accountability, improve citizen engagement, and create value-added services for the public. Through the Open Government Data (OGD)...

A Systematic Literature Study to Unravel Transparency Enabled by Open Government Data: The Window Theory

The opening of data has been credited for improving transparency and for providing a window on government functioning. Although this relationship is intuitively apparent, it is in fact complex and the mere opening of data might not actually yield transparency. In this paper, a comprehensive model of determinants that enable or impede...

Open data policy development: How can municipalities take account of residents’ perspectives?

In many countries, governments encourage municipalities to develop open data policies and subsequently open up data. Municipal open data policies are often supply-driven and not based on residents’ wishes. Municipalities lack insight into residents’ perspectives on opening up municipal data and often do not know how to take them into account...

Societal costs and benefits of high-value open government data: a case study in the Netherlands

Much research has emphasised the benefits of open government data, and especially high-value data. The G8 Open Data Charter defines high-value data as data that improve democracy and encourage the innovative reuse of the particular data. Thus, governments worldwide invest resources to identify potential high-value datasets and to publish these...

Investigating the attainment of open government data objectives: Is there a mismatch between objectives and results?

The objectives of open government data initiatives range from enhancing transparency and accountability to increasing innovation and participation. However, there is a lack of knowledge of the extent to which the objectives of open government data initiatives are achieved. This article investigates the relationship between the objectives of open...

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

Open Government Data Portal Design Principles: Implementing Transparency, Privacy, and Information Quality Assurance by Design

Transparency, privacy, and information quality assurance are profound issues that often emerge due to the publication or use of open data. Realizing the three values are important, and the design of open government data portals should be able to accommodate the values. However, how the open data portals should be designed in order to accommodate...

Improving the speed and ease of open data use through metadata, interaction mechanisms and quality indicators

The use of Open Government Data (OGD) has not kept pace with the expectations as existing OGD infrastructures mainly serve as data repositories. Many OGD infrastructures do not stimulate or support OGD use processes, and there is a lack of research regarding which functionalities can stimulate such processes. The objective of this study is to...

Open data infrastructures: The design of an infrastructure to enhance the coordination of open data use

Governments and researchers traditionally focus on the publication of Open Government Data (OGD), whereas the actual use of the data is often neglected. Open data initiatives are often criticized for not realising the promoted benefits, yet only the use of OGD can result in these benefits. OGD use requires several actors, activities and tools;...

A comparison of open data policies in different countries: Lessons learned for an open data policy in Indonesia

Many countries around the world have joined the open data movement. Data is being published for a various number of reasons which include for the public to reuse, to create a more efficient government, and to increase transparency. Recent development in this field is that the data published is expected to be in machine readable format. In...

Capturing Value from Open Data Platforms: The Utilization of Open Data Platform for Stimulating Open Innovation in the Public Sector in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Indonesia

Several public bodies have opened their data through open data platforms to promote transparency, participation, and collaboration among government’s stakeholders. This action stimulates open innovation in reusing those open government data. Yet, the study about the potential of open data platform to stimulate open innovation in the public...