Data Collaboratives as a New Frontier of Cross-Sector Partnerships in the Age of Open Data: Taxonomy Development

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Abstract

Driving public sector innovation using big and open linked data (BOLD)

“…These innovation labs enable public organizations to meet with private sector organizations and to derive jointly creative solutions. Another organizational form is named data collaborative, in which public and private organizations work together to solve societal issues (Susha et al 2017). Data collaboratives are led and setup by private parties to help society, but at the same time solving societal problems can be beneficial for their image and can help them to innovate.…”

Data collaboratives as “bazaars”?

“…However, experimentation in practice is growing, as the new resource Data Collaboratives Explorer shows (see http://datacollaboratives.org/). In our previous research we proposed a taxonomy (Susha et al, 2017) which differentiates between the different characteristics of data collaboratives based on how the data is shared from the supply side and on how the data is used on the demand side. The taxonomy was derived from the analysis of real-life cases and classified using the relevant academic literature.…”

“…So far there has not been any studies dedicated to the coordination of data collaboratives. In our previous research (Susha, Janssen, & Verhulst, 2017) we developed a taxonomy which distinguishes among different forms of data collaboratives. This paper reuses this taxonomy to analyze the coordination challenges and mechanisms of data collaboratives from the perspective of coordination theory.…”

“…In this research we adopt the term "data collaboratives" as proposed by Verhulst and Sangokoya (2015), because it emphasizes the process of collaboration between parties, which goes beyond mere data sharing. We define data collaboratives as "crosssector (and public-private) collaboration initiatives aimed at data collection, sharing, or processing for the purpose of addressing a societal challenge" (Susha, Janssen, andVerhulst, 2017, p. 2691). In this definition an essential element is that organizations from different sectors collaborate together to create value from data.…”

How Search Engine Data Enhance the Understanding of Determinants of Suicide in India and Inform Prevention: Observational Study (Preprint)

“…Data collaboratives are "an emerging form of public-private partnership in which actors from different sectors exchange information to create new public value." [7]. Data collaboratives are increasingly being tested as means for improving evidence-based policymaking and targeted service delivery around the world, including notably data sharing arrangements between corporations and national statistical offices [8].…”