Organizational issues

How to open up government data?

Book chapter (2018)

Authors

Yannis Charalabidis University of the Aegean
Charalampos Alexopoulos University of the Aegean
Thomas Lampoltshammer Danube University Krems
Enrico Ferro Istituto Superiore Mario Boella
Copyright: © 2018 Yannis Charalabidis, A.M.G. Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, Charalampos Alexopoulos, M.F.W.H.A. Janssen, Thomas Lampoltshammer, Enrico Ferro
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90850-2_4
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Published Date

2018

Language

English

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Abstract

Governments create and collect enormous amounts of data, for instance concerning voting results, transport, energy, education, and employment. These datasets are often stored in an archive that is not accessible for others than the organization’s employees. To attain benefits such as transparency, engagement, and innovation, many governmental organizations are now also providing public access to this data. However, in opening up their data, these organizations face many issues, including the lack of standard procedures, the threat of privacy violations when releasing data, accidentally releasing policy-sensitive data, the risk of data misuse, challenges regarding the ownership of data and required changes at different organizational layers. These issues often hinder the easy publication of government data.