Track Chair: Open Government Data: Policy and Politics

Abstract

In recent decade, opening up government data and encouraging public engagement with/via data becomes an influential idea in multiple fields of public management innovation, digital economy, and international development (Janssen et al. 2012; Catlaw and Sandberg 2012; Zuiderwijk and Janssen 2014). A growing body of literature is being focused on the potential benefits for, and motivations of, governments to adopt the practice of open data in various countries as well as international organizations (Janssen et al. 2012). Most list the main benefits by making clear reference to the universal socio-political values (such as transparency, collaboration, and participation) (OGP 2011). It has almost been assumed that open government data is one of the rare political agendas whose principle objectives reached wide-range consensus, leaving only the technical details of how-to-do largely undecided. [...]