Open Government Maturity Models: A Global Comparison

Abstract

During the last decade, a new approach to bureaucratic reform in the field of public administration, open government, has aimed to increase government transparency and accountability and improve participation of citizens and other stakeholders of government. In the current era of digital governance transformations, evaluating governmental efforts to become open is a central concern of politicians, policymakers, and researchers. Various global maturity models have been developed, but the majority of them focus on the technological capacities of government rather than the historic affinity of openness and democratic governance. In this study, we attempt to address this problem by conceptualizing how governments harness technology innovations and by prescribing developmental phases for open government. Using the qualitative meta-synthesis method, we compare 10 open government maturity models to find the similarities and differences between them. Finally, we present a comprehensive model which evaluates the open government initiatives holistically and includes the following six major stages: (1) an initial stage; (2) a transparency and accountability stage; (3) an open collaboration stage; (4) a platform stage; (5) a democratic open government stage; and, finally, (6) an open governance stage.

Open Government Policy Making by Popular Voting: Comparing Canada and New Zealand

“…According to Banda (2009), civic education is a process of learning to think about one's life as a citizen in a community and cultivating the knowledge and skills needed to act as such. Some approaches aim to locate these principles into consecutive stages (Pirannejad & Ingrams, 2023). In contrast to them, for a more multidimensional analysis, in this study, we treat all these four aspects of open government as relatively independent.…”

Colaboração Como Um dos Princípios de Governo Aberto

“…A Colaboração Como um Princípio de Governo Aberto o governo aberto pode ser entendido como um modelo de governança baseado nos princípios de transparência, participação e colaboração focado na inclusão dos cidadãos e outros atores não governamentais no ciclo de políticas públicas e nas arenas de tomada de decisão (oliveira & Ckagnazaroff, 2022;Pirannejad & Ingrams, 2023;Wirtz, Becker, & Weyerer, 2023).…”

“…Desde então, o termo governo aberto passou a ser entendido como um método moderno de governança que fornece um novo espaço de abertura baseado nos princípios de transparência, participação e colaboração (Clarke & Francoli, 2014;Meijer, Curtin, & Hillebrandt, 2012;Ramírez-Alujas, 2020;Veljković, Bogdanović-Dinić, & stoimenov, 2014;Viscusi, spahiu, maurino, & Batini, 2014;Wirtz & Birkmeyer, 2015). No entanto, o significado e as características dos princípios de governo aberto, especialmente o da colaboração, têm sido tratados apenas superficialmente em grande parte dos estudos do campo (Hansson, Belkacem, & ekenberg, 2015;Pirannejad & Ingrams, 2023;Tai, 2021;Wootten & Kiss, 2018).…”

Implementation of Bureaucratic Reform to Improve Public Services

“…It aims to be able to provide more effective service to society. Good or bad services are provided by the government in carrying out its function as a public institution that is responsible for welfare and fulfillment of public needs (Pirannejad & Ingrams, 2022).…”