Opening Moves – Drivers, Enablers and Barriers of Open Data in a Semi-public Organization

Abstract

Abstract. Governments around the world are opening up their data to increase transparency and stimulate re-use of their data. Semi-public organizations follow, but often for different purposes as they also aim to realize commercial gains with their data. Many organizations, however, find the process of opening up data cumbersome as changes need to be made to different organizational layers. This paper identifies drivers, enablers, and barriers of open data, by reviewing literature and by conducting a case study of open data in a semipublic organization in the Netherlands. We found that while the drivers for opening up data remain the same in every phase of the process, the enablers and barriers shift between the different phases. While in the beginning of the process, organizational factors such as having an implementation strategy and ensuring data quality gained much attention, this attention shifted to factors related to re-use of data. Further research should thus focus on how to develop valuable open data business models, how to foster re-use and build strategic partnerships with users.

Open Data as Enabler of Public Service Co-creation: Exploring the Drivers and Barriers

“…These barriers arise from the ambiguity or lack of regulatory open data policies which convolutes the understanding of open data sets, challenges the flow of data from government agencies to other actors, and leaves agencies feeling no incentive to publish their data [20]. However, even if these legislative barriers were not present, civil servants may expect to find guidance in the form of strategies; so if these strategies do not exist it may act as a major barrier for open government data [21]. A barrier, which is not strictly related to internal government forces, is the role of privacy and security in relation to open data.…”

Factors influencing user acceptance of public sector big open data

“…With open data, civil servants, citizens and other stakeholders (including private companies, supply chains and networks) can beneit from increased participation in government activities (Castellanos et al 2013;Conradie and Choenni 2014), increased transparency and accountability (Craneield, Robertson, andOliver 2014), stimulating innovation (van Veenstra andvan den Broek 2013). Big open data has a positive impact on economic growth; for instance, encouraging marketplace to develop products and services, which increase productivity, ofer employment, and bring revenue back to the government in the form of taxation revenue (Borzacchiello andCraglia 2012 andJanssen, Charalabidis, and.…”

Generating Sustainable Value from Open Data in a Sharing Society

“…Most of the open data initiatives today are driven by governments around the world, the most important driver seemingly being their expectation that open data will stimulate the generation of considerable social, economic and environment value for their societies [22]; [58], [51]. These initiatives have either been fuelled by the political ideology of Open Government [25] or been focused on economic value generation, highlighting the potential of re-use of data for innovation and efficiency [21].…”