Open Government Data: Areas and Directions for Research

Charalabidis, Yannis; Alexopoulos, Charalampos; Janssen, Marijn; Lampoltshammer, Thomas J.; Ferro, Enrico

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90850-2_9

The World of Open Data

2018

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90850-2_9

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Open Government Data: Areas and Directions for Research

Yannis Charalabidis

Charalampos Alexopoulos

Marijn Janssen

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Whose open data is it anyway? An exploratory study of open government data relevance and implications for democratic inclusion

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Open government data (OGD) is believed to enhance democratic outcomes by empowering citizens with the information necessary to participate in meaningful ways. Nonetheless, questions remain about whether OGD is indeed empowering citizens to participate or if the data that governments publish is more reflective of the interests of non-citizen stakeholders. Using the metadata of 2607 publicly available datasets scraped from New York City’s open data portal, this exploratory study uses qualitative content analysis to identify what types of data are published and what the data say about OGD’s potential as a tool for advancing inclusion in democratic processes. The analysis focused particularly on the datasets’ relevance to five particular stakeholder groups: citizens, private sector firms, nonprofits, researchers, and the city’s internal agencies. Findings showed that non-citizen-relevant datasets not only outnumbered citizen-relevant datasets by a large margin but they were also viewed and downloaded at higher rates too. The implications of this for inclusion in democratic processes are discussed, including power imbalances among OGD user groups, the discretionary power data publishers possess, and, ultimately, whether the types of data cities publish is sufficient for empowering an informed citizenry, as an effective democracy demands.

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Whose open data is it anyway? An exploratory study of open government data relevance and implications for democratic inclusion

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Open Government Data: Areas and Directions for Research

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Whose open data is it anyway? An exploratory study of open government data relevance and implications for democratic inclusion

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