Open Government Data as a Reform and Ecosystem : A conceptual framework for evolution and health

Crusoe, Jonathan

doi:10.3384/diss.diva-177827

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“…The focus on these benefits is intentional, as a part of persuasion, aiming to change people's minds and behaviours to support OGD [11,12]. [9] explains that persuasion is an important activity within OGD. For example, public organisations looking to acquire resources to publish OGD might need success stories to persuade others of its benefits [41].…”

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“…Senders tend to argue for OGD based on perceived societal needs or problems, which the release and use of OGD could cure or improve upon society [9]. The problems include dysfunctional democracies, walled data gardens that are only accessible to a small elite, wasted potential of untapped data, and obscure governments [24,25,33,34].…”

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“…The improvements that have been suggested to address these problems are to show political, social, economic, operational, and technical benefits [17] where the core is to maximise the value of OGD and minimise wasted work and storage for said OGD. Through persuasion, a persuaded audience gains purpose and reason to work with OGD [9]. OGD is driven by a powerful set of arguments, often presented by passionate believers in the benefits of OGD [19].…”

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Why Should You Believe in Open Data? – A Document Study Examining Persuasion Rhetoric of OGD Benefits

Ahlin

Crusoe

2022

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The rhetoric of Open Government Data (OGD) concerning its benefits seems to lack anchor in practice affecting practitioners and empirical evidence restraining academia. This rhetoric could be hard to see for those already persuaded. As such, the rhetoric could contain inconsistencies that are based more on myths than facts, contributing to the slow pace of OGD development. OGD is sometimes based on dogmatic rhetoric that is overly simplistic, which hides significant benefits and blocks potential audiences from seeing the practical applications of OGD. The purpose of the present study was to analyse the persuasiveness of present OGD arguments from a rhetorical perspective to identify rhetorical patterns. We conducted desktop research, investigating the rhetoric of eight websites emphasising OGD benefits. Our findings include four common patterns of the rhetoric involving persuasion and dissuasion. The rhetoric contains paradoxes of promises and discoveries, which we categorised as the grand quest, promised opportunities, tribal solidarity, and the silver bullet patterns. A further finding was two mythical paradoxes: (1) promises versus discovery and (2) proving while arguing.

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Why Should You Believe in Open Data? – A Document Study Examining Persuasion Rhetoric of OGD Benefits

Ahlin

Crusoe

2022

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“…Open government data initiatives (open data for short) are projects with a broad number of stakeholders that create value by reusing information from operational databases, releasing social and commercial value, making the government more transparent and accountable and enabling participatory government (Attard et al , 2015). However, open data initiatives usually encounter barriers and impediments that keep them away from getting close to their full potential and may also lead to some unexpected or less expected outcomes (Davies et al , 2013; Schwegmann, 2013; Meijer et al , 2014; Web Foundation, 2015; Crusoe, 2016; Enaholo, 2016; OECD, 2016). To capture the environmental complexity and actor interrelationships in an open data community, scholars suggest the ecosystem perspective (Harrison et al , 2019) as a holistic lens that captures a community of stakeholders, their power position and their interactions that form chains of value creation (Pollock, 2011; Harrison et al , 2012; Helbig et al , 2012; Zuiderwijk et al , 2014; Heimstädt et al , 2014).…”

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Systemic effects of an open government program on data quality: the case of the New York State’s Food Protection program area

Najafabadi

Cronemberger²

2022

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Purpose This paper aims to explore the open government data initiative in the Food Protection program area within the New York State’s Department of Health to assess the impacts of opening data in terms of data quality and public value. An ecosystem lens is used to explore the dynamics of actors and their interactions, the processes involved in the program and the consequences such interplay brought forth to data quality. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected through 15 semistructured interviews with multiple stakeholders from different sectors, such as county officials, administrators and technicians, food sanitarians, data journalists and restaurant owners. At the analysis stage, the ecosystem perspective helped to capture the big picture of the open data actor interrelationships within this community regarding the food service inspections datasets. Findings Prior research suggests that open data initiatives enhance data quality. However, this study shows how opening data can adversely affect the quality of data. Results are explained by competing dynamics and conflicting interests among open data actors, undermining the expected public value from open data initiatives. Research limitations/implications The findings are in contrast with the mainstream open data literature and helps open data scholars to anticipate some currently unexpected results of open data initiatives. Limitations include potential biases associated to interpretation of interview data and that the results are based on a single case study. Practical implications This study makes governments and policymakers alert about the possibility of similar open data byproducts and unwanted outcomes and helps them to design more effective open data policies, hence gaining higher economic advantage while lowering costs of open data initiatives. Originality/value Detailed open data and open data case studies through the ecosystem perspective are still scarce and can enrich discussions about open data policy design and refinement in the public sector. The data used for this research are not used in any prior papers, and to the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to identify such adverse effects of data quality that have been reported.

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Open Government Data as a Reform and Ecosystem : A conceptual framework for evolution and health

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References 137 publications

Why Should You Believe in Open Data? – A Document Study Examining Persuasion Rhetoric of OGD Benefits

Why Should You Believe in Open Data? – A Document Study Examining Persuasion Rhetoric of OGD Benefits

Systemic effects of an open government program on data quality: the case of the New York State’s Food Protection program area

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