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Is Brazilian Open Government Data Actually Open Data?: An Analysis of the Current Scenario

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Kellyton dos Santos Brito,

Marcos Antônio da Silva Costa,

Vinicius Cardoso Garcia,

Silvio Romero de Lemos MeiraAuthors Info & Claims

International Journal of E-Planning Research, Volume 4, Issue 2

Pages 57 - 73

Published: 01 April 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Open Government Data OGD hold great promise for transforming the efficiency and effectiveness of public services through the ease of publishing and access to government public information or through the offer of new kinds of services, such as smart cities services and applications. In this work, we analyze the Brazilian OGD current scenario and the main difficulties and challenges of developing applications using that data. First, we performed a structured analysis of Brazilian OGD repositories according to OGD definitions. Then, we analyzed the development of two similar applications that use the OGD of two main Brazilian cities and were submitted to different cities' application contests and were well evaluated in both of them. Based on the analysis, this work concludes that Brazilian OGD initiatives have to resolve some issues before being considered truly open data for use in application development at large.

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International Journal of E-Planning Research Volume 4, Issue 2

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Correa AZander Pda Silva FJanssen MChun SWeerakkody V(2018)Investigating open data portals automaticallyProceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age10.1145/3209281.3209292(1-10)Online publication date: 30-May-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3209281.3209292
Oliveira Mde Oliveira HOliveira LLóscio B(2016)Open Government Data Portals AnalysisProceedings of the 17th International Digital Government Research Conference on Digital Government Research10.1145/2912160.2912163(415-424)Online publication date: 8-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2912160.2912163

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