Open government data
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Yannis Charalabidis (University of the Aegean)
Anneke van Eijk (TU Delft - Information and Communication Technology)
Charalampos Alexopoulos (University of the Aegean)
M. F.W.H.A. Marijn (TU Delft - Information and Communication Technology)
Thomas Lampoltshammer (Danube University Krems)
Enrico Ferro (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella)
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Abstract
The concept of open data itself is strongly associated with innovative capacity and transformative power (Davies, Perini, & Alonso, 2013). It is increasingly recognized that proactively opening public data can create considerable benefits for several stakeholders, such as firms and individuals interested in the development of value added digital services or mobile applications, by combining various types of Open Government Data (OGD), and possibly other private data. On the other hand, OGD also empowers scientists, journalists and active citizens who want to understand various public issues and policies through advanced data processing and production of analytics (Janssen, 2011a; Zuiderwijk, Helbig, Gil-García, & Janssen, 2014).