Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy: Volume 11 Issue 1

Transparency-by-design as a foundation for open government

Marijn Janssen, Ricardo Matheus, Justin Longo, Vishanth Weerakkody

Many governments are working toward a vision of government-wide transformation that strives to achieve an open, transparent and accountable government while providing responsive…

On addressing privacy in disseminating judicial data: towards a methodology

Mortaza S. Bargh, Sunil Choenni, Ronald Meijer

Information dissemination has become a means of transparency for governments to enable the visions of e-government and smart government, and eventually gain, among others, the…

Open data driven public accountability

Rui Pedro Lourenço, Suzanne Piotrowski, Alex Ingrams

This paper aims to analyse extant literature on open data, distinguish and categorize the strands of public accountability research and use the results to provide better clarity…

Transparency and open government data: A wide national assessment of data openness in Brazilian local governments

Andreiwid Sh. Corrêa, Evandro Couto de Paula, Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti Corrêa, Flávio Soares Corrêa da Silva

This paper aims to identify and to understand how current data portals comply with open government data (OGD) principles in the context of Brazilian local government.

Information requirements to create public value: sharing and opening data to address urban blight

Manuel De Tuya, Meghan Cook, Megan K. Sutherland, Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes

Blighted and vacant properties represent a persistent and costly problem for cities and local governments throughout the USA. The purpose of this paper is to identify data needs…

Conceptualizing citizen participation in open data use at the city level

Julien Hivon, Ryad Titah

Open data initiatives represent a critical pillar of smart cities’ strategies but remain insufficiently and poorly understood. This paper aims to advance a conceptualization of…

Open data intermediaries: coproduction in budget transparency

Gisele da Silva Craveiro, Claudio Albano

Although more public sector information is disclosed in an open format, the intermediaries are the key element to have value creation from it. This study aimed to identify…

Open data ecosystems: an international comparison

Evgeny Styrin, Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes, Teresa M. Harrison

In this paper, the authors compare the open government data (OGD) ecosystems of Mexico, Russia and the USA in an effort to extract some of the major points of similarity and…

Data collaboratives as “bazaars”?: A review of coordination problems and mechanisms to match demand for data with supply

Iryna Susha, Marijn Janssen, Stefaan Verhulst

In “data collaboratives”, private and public organizations coordinate their activities to leverage data to address a societal challenge. This paper aims to focus on analyzing…