The Kenyan Judiciary’s Open Government Initiative: prospects and challenges

Maseh, Elsebah; Katuu, Shadrack

doi:10.1108/jstpm-04-2016-0007

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“…Finally, the eighth major work in the OGD-focused research in an African context is conducted in the Kenyan judiciary where the authors investigated the Open Government Initiative along with the prospects and challenges of the OGD reforms (Maseh & Katuu, 2017). The underlying aim of the Kenyan Judiciary's Open Government Initiative is to promote public participation and provide better delivery of justice.…”

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“…In a bid to realize the goals of transparency, citizen collaboration, and administrative efficiency, governments have instituted structural and functional mechanisms for implementing OGD initiatives (De Blasio & Selva, 2016). As such, research shows that the developed countries have been more forthcoming in OGD initiatives (Serra, 2014;Wirtz & Birkmeyer, 2015;Zuiderwijk, Janssen, & Dwivedi, 2015) while the developing ones are pushing forth their OGD agenda at a slow-yet-steady pace (Afful-Dadzie & Afful-Dadzie, 2017;Maseh & Katuu, 2017;Ohemeng & Ofosu-Adarkwa, 2015;Saxena & Janssen, 2017). As such, research shows that the developed countries have been more forthcoming in OGD initiatives (Serra, 2014;Wirtz & Birkmeyer, 2015;Zuiderwijk, Janssen, & Dwivedi, 2015) while the developing ones are pushing forth their OGD agenda at a slow-yet-steady pace (Afful-Dadzie & Afful-Dadzie, 2017;Maseh & Katuu, 2017;Ohemeng & Ofosu-Adarkwa, 2015;Saxena & Janssen, 2017).…”

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“…Furthermore, OGD initiatives spur economic growth of the country (Diamantini, Potena, & Storti, 2017). As such, research shows that the developed countries have been more forthcoming in OGD initiatives (Serra, 2014;Wirtz & Birkmeyer, 2015;Zuiderwijk, Janssen, & Dwivedi, 2015) while the developing ones are pushing forth their OGD agenda at a slow-yet-steady pace (Afful-Dadzie & Afful-Dadzie, 2017;Maseh & Katuu, 2017;Ohemeng & Ofosu-Adarkwa, 2015;Saxena & Janssen, 2017). Such a differential development may be attributed to the contrasting infrastructural development in different contexts.…”

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Barriers to Open Government Data (OGD) initiative in Tanzania: Stakeholders’ perspectives

Shao

Saxena

2018

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Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives are picking up across the globe with their emphasis upon the tenets of transparency, collaboration, and participation. While much of the research has remained confined at unraveling the theoretical and conceptual dimensions of OGD, empirical investigations are visibly lacking, especially in the African context. Using a qualitative research methodology, we analyze the responses received from relevant stakeholders-representatives from public and private sector-regarding their views about the OGD initiative in Tanzania. Our findings show that the OGD initiative in Tanzania is in an emerging stage and there are barriers (organizational, social, legal, and technical) toward instituting a robust OGD initiative in the country. Further, we find that there is inertia among the government departments in terms of publishing data sets. Our findings provide a sounding board for further research on the sustainability of OGD initiatives in Tanzania and the other African countries, by and large. K E Y

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Barriers to Open Government Data (OGD) initiative in Tanzania: Stakeholders’ perspectives

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Saxena

2018

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“…Open government information as a moderator in the relationship between public leader and public service performance. This hypothesis is supported by Hellberg and Hedstrom (2015), Ruijer and Huff (2016), Adu et al (2016), Correa et al (2017), Maseh and Katuu (2017), Janssen et al (2017).…”

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“…Originality of this study shows that never been testing this investigation of public leader, open government information policy and public service performance in Indonesia. Several previous studies have found partial relationship between variables as follow: first, relationship between leadership and performance by Han et al (2010), McGurk (2010, Maddock (2011Maddock ( , 2012, Borkowski et al (2011), Parker et al (2013, Petrovsky and Ritz (2014), Brookes (2014), Reid (2014), Kellis and Ran (2015), Boddy (2016), Page (2016), Tajeddini (2016), Mathias (2017); second, role of open government information policy by Hellberg and Hedstrom (2015), Ruijer and Huff (2016), Adu et al (2016), Correa et al (2017), Maseh and Katuu (2017), Janssen et al (2017). No previous study has studied comprehensively the moderation effect of open government information policy in relationship between public leadership to public service performance, especially in Indonesia.…”

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Modeling of role of public leader, open government information and public service performance in Indonesia

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Fresly

2017

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between public leadership and open government information to public service’s performance in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach The object of the study is Jakarta Capital City Government, which is divided into five areas of administrative city and one administrative district, samples of 178 respondents are obtained. The analysis tools use the moderator regression analysis. The assumption of linearity is not met, and the alternative tools use nonparametric regression. This research uses the nonparametric moderator regression analysis: Truncated Spline. Findings The role of public leader has a significant and positive effect on public service performance, on different levels of role of public leader, moderated by the implementation of open government information. In the high level of open government information, it has a higher slope than the low level of open government information, in the range of moderate to high-level leader of public leaders. On the other hand, in the low level of open government information, it has a higher slope than the high level of open government information, in the range of moderate to high-level leader of public leaders. This shows that the higher implementation of open government information, the stronger the influence of role of public leader on public service performance. Originality/value No previous study has studied comprehensively the Moderation Effect of Open Government Information Policy in relationship between public leadership to public service performance, especially in Indonesia.

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Why do Open Government Data initiatives fail in developing countries? A root cause analysis of the most prevalent barriers and problems

Alexopoulos,

Saxena,

Janssen

et al. 2023

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Open government data (OGD) include the provision of government data, which have so far been reserved for the provision of public utilities and services, wherein different stakeholders may create value out of the same source. Recently, OGD initiatives around the world have dampened or were found to be inadequate for one or other reasons. The present study seeks to underline the root causes behind these inadequate or stalled initiatives with a specific focus on the developing countries. This article undertakes a literature review of the most significant studies in this area, followed by a root cause analysis wherein the database across Scopus and Web of Science has been explored with the set inclusion and exclusion criteria being set in line with the research focusing on the hinderances and bottlenecks behind the failure of OGD initiatives (n ~ 15), thus not only summarizing what has been revealed in previous studies but also identifying these “root‐cause” relationships, which are responsible for the stalled OGD projects. A deep understanding of the literature on OGD shows that research of OGD barriers repeat each other. The results show that the main root causes include politico‐administrative, social, technological, legal and organizational (inter‐ and intra) dimensions including aspects like state of the economy, infrastructural issues, the tendency to copy the OGD initiative without need to institutionalize the same, and so forth. Whereas a number of studies are available covering the barriers in the roll‐out and implementation of OGD initiatives, the root causes behind the existence of these barriers have not been identified so far‐the present study seeks to plug this gap. Besides being a contribution to the extant OGD literature in general, the study seeks to leave academic and practical implications for furthering up deliberations and discussions on the OGD themes with specific impetus upon the cause analysis of the failure in OGD initiatives and the manner in which the same may be corrected or preempted.

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The Kenyan Judiciary’s Open Government Initiative: prospects and challenges

Cited by 26 publications

References 22 publications

Barriers to Open Government Data (OGD) initiative in Tanzania: Stakeholders’ perspectives

Barriers to Open Government Data (OGD) initiative in Tanzania: Stakeholders’ perspectives

Modeling of role of public leader, open government information and public service performance in Indonesia

Why do Open Government Data initiatives fail in developing countries? A root cause analysis of the most prevalent barriers and problems

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