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Open Government Data as a Right for Effective Citizen Participation

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Agnes Owuato Odongo,

Gideon Cheruiyot RonoAuthors Info & Claims

ICEGOV '15-16: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

Pages 365 - 366

https://doi.org/10.1145/2910019.2910035

Published: 01 March 2016 Publication History

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Open Government Data (OGD) is where the public sector relinquishes its role as information gatekeeper and become information provider. This realigns power dynamics between the public and private sectors. Open and transparent governments are more accountable to their citizens and less corrupt. Openness generates trust in government, paves way for meaningful citizen participation and more informed and better policies. This paper addresses the question: How does OGD arouse development opportunity generation? To explore and illustrate how development opportunities can be generated using OGD, we proposed a conceptual model that generates noticeable techniques resulting in economic development opportunities. This portrays the contributory pathways between OGD, social factors and technological factors that can generate development opportunities. We looked at overall economic and societal impacts from OGD and examine OGD initiatives as the unit of analysis.

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Osorio-Sanabria MAmaya-Fernández FGonzález-Zabala MPaillard GMendes Neto FFerreira Coutinho EChagas do Nascimento R(2018)Analysis of the data sets published in the Colombian open data portalProceedings of the Euro American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems10.1145/3293614.3293620(1-8)Online publication date: 12-Nov-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3293614.3293620
Gorkovenko KLischke LWoźniak PBratteteig TSandnes FBerget G(2018)Large displays and tabletsProceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3240167.3240192(664-675)Online publication date: 29-Sep-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3240167.3240192
Sanabria MFernández FZabala M(2018)Colombian Case Study for the Analysis of Open Data GovernmentProceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance10.1145/3209415.3209474(389-394)Online publication date: 4-Apr-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3209415.3209474

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