Comparing Resistance to Open Data Performance Measurement: Public Education in Brazil and the Uk

Michener, Gregory; Ritter, Otavio

doi:10.1111/padm.12293

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“…Data in their raw state are without meaning, but if they are given meaning within a context, it becomes information (Mandinach, 2012). OGD are perceived as valuable strategic assets (Michener & Ritter, 2017; Peled, 2011). If these datasets are crucial to government organization’s existence, can we expect organizations to give data away?…”

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“…Organizational action results from bargaining and negotiation among competing stakeholders about these resources. We will develop an analytical framework by combining Oliver’s (1991) work on strategic responses to institutional processes with more recent analyses of the complex dynamics of transparency (Fox, 2007; Meijer, 2013) and the current literature on OGD (Birchall, 2015; Longo, 2011; Michener & Ritter, 2017; Peled, 2011; Worthy, 2015). The framework helps to better understand why institutional pressure on government organizations to release OGD can result in full access to government data but also in partial access.…”

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The Politics of Open Government Data: Understanding Organizational Responses to Pressure for More Transparency

Ruijer

Détienne

Baker

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The American Review of Public Administration

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This article contributes to the growing body of literature within public management on open government data by taking a political perspective. We argue that open government data are a strategic resource of organizations and therefore organizations are not likely to share it. We develop an analytical framework for studying the politics of open government data, based on theories of strategic responses to institutional processes, government transparency, and open government data. The framework shows that there can be different organizational strategic responses to open data—varying from conformity to active resistance—and that different institutional antecedents influence these responses. The value of the framework is explored in two cases: a province in the Netherlands and a municipality in France. The cases provide insights into why governments might release datasets in certain policy domains but not in others thereby producing “strategically opaque transparency.” The article concludes that the politics of open government data framework helps us understand open data practices in relation to broader institutional pressures that influence government transparency.

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The Politics of Open Government Data: Understanding Organizational Responses to Pressure for More Transparency

Ruijer

Détienne

Baker

et al. 2019

The American Review of Public Administration

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“…The in-depth cross-national research fits this aim. This type of research on OGD implementation is limited (but see Michener and Ritter [2017] for an exception), and this study fills this gap by investigating Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. All three countries rank highly on OGD implementation-fourteenth, first, and eighth, respectively, according to the Open Data Barometer (ODB) results (Open Data Barometer, 2017), yet have diverging institutional backgrounds.…”

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Institutional Dimensions of Open Government Data Implementation: Evidence from the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK

Safarov

2018

Public Performance & Management Review

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This article investigates the institutional dimensions that shape Open Government Data (OGD) implementation in three developed countries: the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Thirty-two expert interviews and document analysis were used to research OGD implementation practices. The results reveal that OGD implementation as such is not enough to ensure the sustainability and success of OGD adoption in a country. Five different dimensions should be distinguished: policy and strategy, legislative foundations, organizational arrangements, relevant skills, public support and awareness. The approach to the institutional dimensions differs between the countries. Centralized OGD governance is shown to yield better results and a higher level of OGD implementation. The contribution of the present study is twofold: first, the article introduces institutional dimensions for explaining OGD implementation; second, it presents a comparative analysis of best practices in the three developed countries. KEYWORDS institutional dimensions; open data; open data implementation; open government dataInformation technologies have created massive opportunities to collect and utilize data on nearly all activities of government bodies. The significance, benefits, and positive effects of open government data (OGD) are well recognized by many researchers (Zeleti, Ojo, & Curry, 2016). Studies showing that open data initiatives may promote proactive civic engagement, innovation, and democratic processes (Chan, 2013;Kassen, 2013;Linders, 2013) formed the basis for research into the benefits, policy issues, OGD infrastructure, availability and quality of data, and the skills required for OGD (Barry & Bannister, 2014;dos Santos Brito, da Silva Costa, Garcia, & de Lemos Meira, 2015;Dulong de Rosnay & Janssen, 2014). Access to public data is also considered a core building block in the public governance of new sociotechnological structures, such as smart cities (Meijer, 2017 Published with license by Taylor & Francis © 2018 Igbal Safarov This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. REVIEW 2019, VOL. 42, NO. 2, 305-328 Researchers have given increasing attention to the role of institutions in the implementation of innovations. Institutions also have become significant in innovation theory (Edquist & Johnson, 1997). Mueller, Rosenbusch, and Bausch (2013) highlight that institutional conditions have a major impact on the performance of innovations. The public innovation literature shows that the barriers and drivers of public innovations are shaped by institutions (Aagaard, 2012). Institutionalizing open data, using analytics and public performance reporting, and acknowledging data privacy are considered si...

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“…Obstacles in opening government data sets recognized in Michener and Ritter’s (2017) study are referred to as the “three-Ps” of open data resistance representing professional, political, and personal privacy concerns. Professional resistance comes from the possibility of assessing the quality of work based on open data sets.…”

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Open Judicial Data: A Comparative Analysis

Marković

Gostojić

2018

Social Science Computer Review

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Open data gained considerable traction in government, nonprofit, and profit organizations in the last several years. Open judicial data increase transparency of the judiciary and are an integral part of open justice. This article identifies relevant judicial data set types, reviews widely used open government data evaluation methodologies, selects a methodology for evaluating judicial data sets, uses the methodology to evaluate openness of judicial data sets in chosen countries, and suggests actions to improve efficiency and effectiveness of open data initiatives. Our findings show that judicial data sets should at least include court decisions, case registers, filed document records, and statistical data. The Global Open Data Index methodology is the most suitable for the task. We suggest considering actions to enable more effective and efficient opening of judicial data sets, including publishing legal documents and legal data in standardized machine-readable formats, assigning standardized metadata to the published documents and data sets, providing both programmable and bulk access to documents and data, explicitly publishing licenses which apply to them in a machine-readable format, and introducing a centralized portal enabling retrieval and browsing of open data sets from a single source.

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Comparing Resistance to Open Data Performance Measurement: Public Education in Brazil and the Uk

Cited by 16 publications

References 39 publications

The Politics of Open Government Data: Understanding Organizational Responses to Pressure for More Transparency

The Politics of Open Government Data: Understanding Organizational Responses to Pressure for More Transparency

Institutional Dimensions of Open Government Data Implementation: Evidence from the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK

Open Judicial Data: A Comparative Analysis

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