Promoting the use of open government data: Cases of training and engagement

Gascó-Hernández, Mila; Martin, Erika G.; Reggi, Luigi; Pyo, Sunyoung; Luna‐Reyes, Luis F.

doi:10.1016/j.giq.2018.01.003

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“…However, educating citizens through formal and informal open data training (Gascó-Hernández et al, 2018) is a long-term continuous effort. The training curriculum should combine the introduction of open data and the teaching of analytical skills to encourage the use of open data (Gascó-Hernández et al, 2018). Knowledge about the context (i.e., societal problems) and interactions with the government during the course can increase the training effectiveness.…”

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Citizen engagement with open government data

Purwanto

Janssen

2020

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Purpose Citizen engagement is key to the success of many Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives. However, not much is known regarding how this type of engagement emerges. This study aims to investigate the necessary conditions for the emergence of citizen-led engagement with OGD and to identify which factors stimulate this type of engagement. Design/methodology/approach First, the authors created a systematic overview of the literature to develop a conceptual model of conditions and factors of OGD citizen engagement at the societal, organizational and individual level. Second, the authors used the conceptual model to systematically study citizens’ engagement in the case of a particular OGD initiative, namely, the digitization of presidential election results data in Indonesia in 2014. The authors used multiple information sources, including interviews and documents, to explore the conditions and factors of OGD citizen-led engagement in this case. Findings From the literature the authors identified five conditions for the emergence of OGD citizen-led engagement as follows: the availability of a legal and political framework that grants a mandate to open up government data, sufficient budgetary resources allocated for OGD provision, the availability of OGD feedback mechanisms, citizens’ perceived ease of engagement and motivated citizens. In the literature, the authors found six factors contributing to OGD engagement as follows: democratic culture, the availability of supporting institutional arrangements, the technical factors of OGD provision, the availability of citizens’ resources, the influence of social relationships and citizens’ perceived data quality. Some of these conditions and factors were found to be less important in the studied case, namely, citizens’ perceived ease of engagement and citizens’ perceived data quality. Moreover, the authors found several new conditions that were not mentioned in the studied literature, namely, citizens’ sense of urgency, competition among citizen-led OGD engagement initiatives, the diversity of citizens’ skills and capabilities and the intensive use of social media. The difference between the conditions and factors that played an important role in the case and those derived from the literature review might be because of the type of OGD engagement that the authors studied, namely, citizen-led engagement, without any government involvement. Research limitations/implications The findings are derived using a single case study approach. Future research can investigate multiple cases and compare the conditions and factors for citizen-led engagement with OGD in different contexts. Practical implications The conditions and factors for citizen-led engagement with OGD have been evaluated in practice and discussed with public managers and practitioners through interviews. Governmental organizations should prioritize and stimulate those conditions and factors that enhance OGD citizen engagement to create more value with OGD. Originality/value While some research on government-led engagement with OGD exists, there is hardly any research on citizen-led engagement with OGD. This study is the first to develop a conceptual model of necessary conditions and factors for citizen engagement with OGD. Furthermore, the authors applied the developed multilevel conceptual model to a case study and gathered empirical evidence of OGD engagement and its contributions to solving societal problems, rather than staying at the conceptual level. This research can be used to investigate citizen engagement with OGD in other cases and offers possibilities for systematic cross-case lesson-drawing.

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Citizen engagement with open government data

Purwanto

Janssen

2020

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“…Critical data literacy approaches need to encompass how-to skills such as data analysis, curation, management, mining and visualisation (Gascó-Hernández et al 2018) while also engaging with related critical, statistical, political, and media literacies, such as statistical, political, media and data. Statistical literacy is, for Wallman (1993), Schield (2004) and Mandinach and Gummer (2013), the ability to understand and use data effectively for decision-making.…”

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Critical literacies for a datafied society: academic development and curriculum design in higher education

Atenas

Havemann

Timmermann

2020

Research in Learning Technology

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Participation in democracy, in today's digital and datafied society, requires the development of a series of transversal skills, which should be fostered in higher education (HE) through critically oriented pedagogies that interweave technical data skills and practices together with information and media literacies. If students are to navigate the turbulent waters of data and algorithms, then data literacies must be featured in academic development programmes, thereby enabling HE to lead in the development of approaches to understanding and analysing data, in order to foster reflection on how data are constructed and operationalised across societies, and provide opportunities to learn from the analysis of data from a range of sources. The key strategy proposed is to adopt the use of open data as open educational resources in the context of problem-and research-based learning activities. This paper introduces a conceptual analysis including an integrative overview of relevant literature, to provide a landscape perspective to support the development of academic training and curriculum design programmes in HE to contribute to civic participation and to the promotion of social justice.

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“…Alongside the agenda to build capacities of organisations there has been a more specific focus on increasing the capacities of civil society organisations to make sense of data [65,66] and act upon data they gather [3,52]. This endeavour has primarily taken shape around studies and projects that attempted to increase the data literacy of citizens [10,22,57,76,78], projects that have taken a learning and skills development approach [38,39,77], and had the aim to develop collaborative sense-making practices [6,64,76].…”

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From Creating Spaces for Civic Discourse to Creating Resources for Action

Johnson

Al-Shahrabi

Vines

2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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In this paper, we investigate the role of technology to address the concerns of a civil society group carrying out community-level consultation on the allocation of £1 million of community funds. We explore issues of devolved decision-making through the evaluation of a sociodigital system designed to foster deliberative virtues. We describe the ways in which this group used our system in their consultation practices. Our findings highlight how they adopted our technology to privilege specific forms of expression, ascertain issues in their community, make use of and make sense of community data, and create resources for action within their existing practices. Based on related fieldwork we discuss the impacts of structuring and configuring tools for 'talk-based' consultation in order to turn attention to the potential pitfalls and prospects for designing civic technologies that create resources for action for civil society.

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Promoting the use of open government data: Cases of training and engagement

Cited by 118 publications

References 28 publications

Citizen engagement with open government data

Citizen engagement with open government data

Critical literacies for a datafied society: academic development and curriculum design in higher education

From Creating Spaces for Civic Discourse to Creating Resources for Action

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