The New Ambiguity of 'Open Government'

Assessing Open Government Performance through Three Public Administration Perspectives: Efficiency, Democratic Responsiveness, and Legal-rational Process

“…There is also a growing realization that transparency policies can hide as many public administrative opportunities as it reveals ( (Roberts, 2005;Worthy, 2010). In discussing a raft of reforms that governments use to try to improve transparency, Yu and Robinson (2012) …”

“…These initiatives, of which the Open Government Partnership (OGP) is the most emblematic and comprehensive project to date, bring together many traditional concerns of transparency, accountability, and efficiency with promise for new tools of information and communications technology (ICT) (Dawes and Helbig, 2010;Yu and Robinson, 2012). But as governments experiment with this fusion of openness and technology, they are creating questions about performance measurement that need to be answered.…”

Exploring Urban Data Visualization and Public Participation in Planning

“…To make data available may in many ways be practical and informative, but it does not always relate to the transparency of government. In fact, achieving increased accountability through open data is often confused with the technology of open data, and there is no guarantee that open data itself leads to increased transparency of government (Yu and Robinson, 2012). Open government can be achieved without open data, and open data can exist in contexts of low accountability.…”

“…The first open databases 1 were in general making information available in bulk, but provided access only through designed interfaces-"pinholes". The data was, however, 'scraped' or extracted by individuals and organizations 2 that made the information available in raw format to be queried in any number of ways through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) (Yu and Robinson, 2012).…”

The Civic Informatics of FracTracker Alliance: Working with Communities to Understand the Unconventional Oil and Gas Industry

“…Yu and Robinson (2012) astutely note that government can call itself "open" if it builds a transparent-looking website, even if it does not afford new accountabilities. Such is the case with how most agencies have responded to requests for greater UOGD transparency.…”