Access to Public-Sector Information in Europe: Policy, Rights, and Obligations

Blakemore, Michael; Craglia, Max

doi:10.1080/01972240500388180

Cited by 48 publications

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“…Also, the improved ability to disseminate information has been seen to offer possibilities to enhance the public's access to information. There are new calls for rights in relation to the use of public information (Blakemore and Craglia 2006) and attempts at rethinking the constitutional frame of the digital state (Bovens and Loos 2002).…”

Section: New Perceptions Of Public Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Government Transparency

Erkkilä

2012

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Organizations are the building blocks of governments. The role of organizations, formal and informal, is most readily apparent in public bureaucracy, but all the institutions of the public sector are composed of organizations, or have some organizational characteristics that affect their performance. Therefore, if scholars want to understand how governments work, a very good place to start is at the level of the organizations involved in delivering services. Likewise, if practitioners want to understand how to be effective in the public sector, they would be well-advised to consider examining the role of organizations and how to make the organizations more effective.This series will publish research-based books concerned with organizations in the public sector and will cover such issues as: the autonomy of public sector organizations, networks and network analysis, bureaucratic politics, organizational change and leadership, and methodology for studying organizations.

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Section: New Perceptions Of Public Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Government Transparency

Erkkilä

2012

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“…Lot has been written about difficulties faced by users of datasets released by the government but very few articles or research papers present perspective of government agencies to how and why they are not able to release datasets as per expectations of users be it citizens, civil society, developer community, journalists, researchers or scientists. Reviewed the papers which have discussed impediments of open government data [8,9,16,17,21] and tried to understand the challenges of government as well as citizens in publishing & consuming open government data.…”

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“…Request permissions from Permissions@acm.org. [6,8,10,13] Datasets are at the core of any open data initiative. A lot of emphasis is laid on quality & standardization of data for its potential use for planning & analysis purposes [18,21].…”

Section: Open Data: Ecosystemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open government data

Verma

Gupta

2013

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

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Open data is expected to enhance transparency, accountability and collaboration with citizens for government. Governments at all levels across all continents are therefore taking Initiatives to release their data in open domain. Open government data initiatives generally begin with a directive or a policy followed by a setting up of a data portal. All government agencies under the jurisdiction are then advised to contribute datasets in open format on the data portal. These contributing agencies face a lot of challenge right from understanding open data, capacity to compile good quality data, technology integration, potential apps, availability of funds and allocation of duty to institutional support. There is a need to enable and equip these government agencies with necessary skillsets to contribute high quality datasets. Departments also need to be equipped with necessary technology & administrative support to engage with Citizens willing to use data in open domain. Effective collaboration with community is also necessary to achieve potential use of datasets released. Further provisions should also be made in policy to achieve its institutionalization in the departments to achieve sustained release of high quality, high value datasets over a long time.

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“…There are many reasons for this. Various concerns such as legal challenges, level of initial investment, complexity, quality of data, provenance, privacy, and loss of licensing revenue have been raised by various stakeholders hindering the easy adoption of OGD [3][4][5]. In addition to the challenges and barriers there are no suitable metric for determining the success [6] and there are various myths surrounding OGD [1].…”

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Aligning core stakeholders' perspectives and issues in the open government data community

Ojo

Janssen

2013

Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research

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Open Government Data (OGD) has gained momentum and a large number of portals have become available providing all kind of data. There are many practices available and all kind of technologies enabling the opening of data. Yet the field is fragmented and effective use of open data requires knowledge found in different communities. The goal of the proposed workshop is two-fold. First it aims to contribute to better and shared understanding of concerns across core stakeholder groups in the OGD community. Second, it intends to show and discuss how some emerging technological solutions in the social semantic web and linked data technology domain could effectively address some of these concerns when considered as a part of a sociotechnical ensemble.

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Access to Public-Sector Information in Europe: Policy, Rights, and Obligations

Cited by 48 publications

References 22 publications

Government Transparency

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Open government data

Aligning core stakeholders' perspectives and issues in the open government data community

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