The role of e-participation and open data in evidence-based policy decision making in local government

Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Weerakkody,; Waller, Paul; Lee, H; Irani, Zahir; Choi, Youngseok; Morgan, R; Glikman, Yuri

doi:10.1080/10919392.2015.1125171

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“…Organizations play a dominant role in OGD implementation and significantly shape the OGD implementation process. OGD can facilitate realistic, evidence-based, and transparent governance and policy-making and provide convenient prospects for citizens and policymakers to evaluate policy outcomes (Sivarajah et al, 2016), which increases the role of organizational leadership in OGD implementation. Meanwhile, organizational factors are considered substantial challenges, that, along with legal and technical challenges, limit the availability and reuse of open data (Dulong de Rosnay & Janssen, 2014).…”

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Institutional Dimensions of Open Government Data Implementation: Evidence from the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK

Safarov

2018

Public Performance & Management Review

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This article investigates the institutional dimensions that shape Open Government Data (OGD) implementation in three developed countries: the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Thirty-two expert interviews and document analysis were used to research OGD implementation practices. The results reveal that OGD implementation as such is not enough to ensure the sustainability and success of OGD adoption in a country. Five different dimensions should be distinguished: policy and strategy, legislative foundations, organizational arrangements, relevant skills, public support and awareness. The approach to the institutional dimensions differs between the countries. Centralized OGD governance is shown to yield better results and a higher level of OGD implementation. The contribution of the present study is twofold: first, the article introduces institutional dimensions for explaining OGD implementation; second, it presents a comparative analysis of best practices in the three developed countries. KEYWORDS institutional dimensions; open data; open data implementation; open government dataInformation technologies have created massive opportunities to collect and utilize data on nearly all activities of government bodies. The significance, benefits, and positive effects of open government data (OGD) are well recognized by many researchers (Zeleti, Ojo, & Curry, 2016). Studies showing that open data initiatives may promote proactive civic engagement, innovation, and democratic processes (Chan, 2013;Kassen, 2013;Linders, 2013) formed the basis for research into the benefits, policy issues, OGD infrastructure, availability and quality of data, and the skills required for OGD (Barry & Bannister, 2014;dos Santos Brito, da Silva Costa, Garcia, & de Lemos Meira, 2015;Dulong de Rosnay & Janssen, 2014). Access to public data is also considered a core building block in the public governance of new sociotechnological structures, such as smart cities (Meijer, 2017 Published with license by Taylor & Francis © 2018 Igbal Safarov This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. REVIEW 2019, VOL. 42, NO. 2, 305-328 Researchers have given increasing attention to the role of institutions in the implementation of innovations. Institutions also have become significant in innovation theory (Edquist & Johnson, 1997). Mueller, Rosenbusch, and Bausch (2013) highlight that institutional conditions have a major impact on the performance of innovations. The public innovation literature shows that the barriers and drivers of public innovations are shaped by institutions (Aagaard, 2012). Institutionalizing open data, using analytics and public performance reporting, and acknowledging data privacy are considered si...

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Section: Institutional Dimensionsmentioning

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Institutional Dimensions of Open Government Data Implementation: Evidence from the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK

Safarov

2018

Public Performance & Management Review

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“…Governments and publishers of open data expect the users to exploit such data in as many ways as possible for the benefit of the society (Data.gov.uk 2015). For example, general public (nontechnical users) may use it to analyse trends in one policy area over time, or compare how different parts of the government go about doing their work (Sivarajah et al 2016). On the other hand, technical users such as software developers are encouraged to create useful applications out of the raw data files, which can then be used by everyone benefitting the wider society.…”

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“…Public sector organisations have started making governmental data available on web portals, as web services, so that the public have access to such official datasets in one place. The increase in availability of open data initiatives has been seen mainly due to the growing pressure imposed by governments on all kinds of public organisations to release their raw data (Sivarajah et al 2016;Janssen et al 2012). The key motivators encouraging public organisations to publish data revolves around government's perception that the open access to publicly-funded data provides: (a) greater economic returns from public investment (Cranefield et al 2014), (b) access to policy-makers with data needed to address complex problems (Sivarajah et al 2016;Arzberger et al 2004), (c) generates wealth through the downstream use of outputs , and (d) helps involve citizens in analysing large quantities of datasets (Surowiecki 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…businesses, charitable organizations, and NGO communities). However, the spread of digital governance and associated norms, such as responsiveness, accessibility and efficiency of public services, transparency and accountability (Carter and Weerakkody 2008;Wilcox 2010;Rana et al 2015), have motivated governments to exploit the potential of wider distribution and use of such data (Sivarajah et al 2015(Sivarajah et al , 2016.…”

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Open data and its usability: an empirical view from the Citizen’s perspective

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Government legislation and calls for greater levels of oversight and transparency are leading public bodies to publish their raw datasets online. Policy makers and elected officials anticipate that the accessibility of open data through online Government portals for citizens will enable public engagement in policy making through increased levels of fact based content elicited from open data. The usability and benefits of such open data are being argued as contributing positively towards public sector reforms, which are under extreme pressures driven by extended periods of austerity. However, there is very limited scholarly studies that have attempted to empirically evaluate the performance of government open data websites and the acceptance and use of these data from a citizen perspective. Given this research void, an adjusted diffusion of innovation model based on Rogers' diffusion of innovations theory (DOI) is proposed and used in this paper to empirically determine the predictors influencing the use of public sector open data. A good understanding of these predictors affecting the acceptance and use of open data will likely assist policy makers and public administrations in determining the policy instruments that can increase the acceptance and use of open data through an active promotion campaign to engage-contribute-use.

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“…New technological achievements of ICT may represent a strategic instrument to enhance and increase the possibilities for analysis and management of information in Public sector decision support (Sivarajaha et al, 2016). There is a clear coincidence between the exponential increment in the production of Big Data that we have been witnessing over the past few years, and the heightening of the digital world's attention towards the semantic inter-operability of different sets of information, which has been promoted by the Linked Data (LD) initiative, which has proposed to make huge amounts of data available, interconnected, and identifiable, through the use of Uniform Resource Identifiers.…”

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Big Data Analytics National Educational System Monitoring and Decision Making

Cantini¹,

Chellini²,

Sagri³

2016

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This paper reviews the applications of big data in supporting monitoring and decision making in the National Educational System. It describes different types of monitoring methodologies and explores the opportunities, challenges and benefits of incorporating big data applications in order to study the National Educational System. This approach allows to analyze schools as entities, which included in a local context with specific social, economic, and cultural development features. In addition, the paper attempts to identify the prerequisites that support the implementation of data analysis in the national educational system. This review reveals that there are several opportunities for using big data (structured and unstructured information) in the educational system, in order to improve strategic multidimensional knowledge for decision making and developing educational policies; however, there are still many issues and challenges that need to be addressed so as to achieve a better use of this technology.

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The role of e-participation and open data in evidence-based policy decision making in local government

Cited by 50 publications

References 39 publications

Institutional Dimensions of Open Government Data Implementation: Evidence from the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK

Institutional Dimensions of Open Government Data Implementation: Evidence from the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK

Open data and its usability: an empirical view from the Citizen’s perspective

Big Data Analytics National Educational System Monitoring and Decision Making

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