Transparency in Local Governments: Patterns and Practices of Twenty-first Century

Abstract

The study is a systematic literature review that assembles scientific knowledge in local government transparency in the twenty-first Century. The study finds a remarkable growth in research on local government transparency in the first nineteen years, particularly in Europe and North America. Social, economic, political and institutional factors are found to account for this trend. In vogue among local governments is the use of information technology to enhance transparency. The pressure to become transparent largely comes from the passage of Freedom of Information Laws and open data initiatives of governments.

La implementación de las políticas de transparencia en los municipios españoles de mayor población: ¿path dependency o shock institucional?

“…A pesar de la abundante evidencia científica que se interroga sobre los efectos de la transparencia sobre las actitudes ciudadanas hacia las instituciones, no está claro el efecto interno que tienen la puesta en marcha de normativas de transparencia desde un punto de vista organizativo y de adaptación institucional, especialmente en el ámbito municipal. Si bien los gobiernos locales han sido foco de interés creciente (Krah y Mertens 2020), no es tanto el caso para la realidad española.…”

Open Data Accessibility Based on Voice Commands

“…As the accessibility operations will be applied to an open data portal such as the European, we aligned the suggested operations to the DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP 11 ), which is a specification based on the Data Catalogue Vocabulary (DCAT) developed by W3C. We will use a CKAN API 12 provided by the open data portals which is aligned with DCAT in order to offer the suitable accessibility operations for open data access and search. Moreover, for speech operations regarding tabular data, we have considered specific guidelines pointed out in related works [6].…”

“…Nowadays, the publication of data on the Web by governments and institutions all over the world is becoming a trend [12,22]. This open data growth is due to the importance of transparency and participation of the citizenship to gain confidence and responsibility in our current society [12,22].…”

“…Nowadays, the publication of data on the Web by governments and institutions all over the world is becoming a trend [12,22]. This open data growth is due to the importance of transparency and participation of the citizenship to gain confidence and responsibility in our current society [12,22]. This transparent resulting from opening data reduces the information gaps between government/institutions and the citizens, but providing information does not necessarily translate into transparency if the available information is not comprehensible and easy accessible by users [12].…”

“…This open data growth is due to the importance of transparency and participation of the citizenship to gain confidence and responsibility in our current society [12,22]. This transparent resulting from opening data reduces the information gaps between government/institutions and the citizens, but providing information does not necessarily translate into transparency if the available information is not comprehensible and easy accessible by users [12]. Therefore, the importance of transparency relies also in the accessibility to relevant data for the citizenship [14].…”