Rethinking Open Government Data for Citizen Participation. An Introduction to a Special Issue
Citizen participation has always been considered one of the key pillars of open government: providing citizens with government information should enable them to participate effectively in decision-making or other government procedures. Despite ...
Where is open data in the Open Data Directive?
The 2019 Directive on Open Data and the Re-use of Public Sector Information draws together two traditions in ensuring proactive access to government data. On one hand, it embraces the concept of ‘open data’, a concept rooted in government ...
The Dutch Open Government Act: Bridging old and new open government?
Across the globe, ‘old’ open government is gradually transforming into ‘new’ open government. While freedom of information (FOI) legislation is usually associated with old open government, this legislation itself is also on the move. This country ...
Is altruism dead? A critical case study on the paradigm shift in Open Government Data
The broad and continued success of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) has helped to spread its ideology to many other domains, including Open Government Data (OGD), which has recently gained prominence due to its potential for feeding ...
The role of open government data and co-creation in crisis management: Initial conceptual propositions from the COVID-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, open government data (OGD) was often used as a valuable crisis management resource. Unfortunately, there is limited research that explores how OGD can be used during times of crisis as a crisis management tool. To ...
Citizen requests and the price of public information: An experimental test
Pricing of public goods is particularly challenging for public services that are strongly rights-based in character. Such is the case of freedom of information requesting procedures. Costs have implications for how citizens will treat requesting ...
Seeing data like a state: A case of Open Government Data in India’s livelihoods program
Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives promise to make governments transparent, enabling citizens to participate actively in governance. Yet, empirical evidence suggests that OGD doesn’t have the democratic impact that its advocates expect. Based ...
Is everything under control? An experimental study on how control over data influences trust in and support for major governmental data exchange projects
The steep rise in the exchange of (citizen) data through government-wide platforms has triggered a demand for better privacy safeguards. One approach to privacy is to give citizens control over the exchange of personal data, hoping to reinforce ...