Viscous Open Data: The Roles of Intermediaries in an Open Data Ecosystem

Promoting corporate sustainability in small and medium‐sized enterprises: Key determinants of intermediary performance in Africa

“…Network centrality is key for intermediary performance because though intermediaries need to get more partners involved in the CS promotion, however, there is the need to determine a central partner responsible for communication and coordination of national agenda for CS. Supporting the views of van Schalkwyk et al (), connecting and interconnecting intermediaries and their related network elements, operators, and users are key drivers of their performance.…”

“…Intermediary visibility within local communities can also be improved through information and communication technologies (van Schalkwyk, Willmers, & McNaughton, ). Modern technologies can easily connect and interconnect intermediaries with their related networked elements, operators, and users.…”

A critical narrative approach to openness: The impact of open development on structural transformation

“…Openness was often hoped to deliver new opportunities, namely, to “facilitate greater [government] transparency, catalyze citizen participation, and change relations between citizens and government” (B. Raman, , n.p. ); “increase the transparency of decision‐making as well as the accountability of those tasked with implementing processes that serve the interest of society” (van Schalkwyk, Willmers, & McNaughton, , p. 1); “provide public access to educational data that is accessible to civil society, NGOs, local community members, and government bodies at all levels, thereby building more accountability into the education system” (Iyengar et al, , p. 1); “provide new opportunities for humanitarian responders to enhance their response to crisis situations” (Meesters & Van de Walle, , p. 149); and “enable transit agencies and operators to engage the power of the software developer community and citizenry more generally to create new forms of information services about public transportation” (Eros, Mehndiratta, & Zegras, , p. 3). These opportunities, involving a plethora of actors and institutions, were hoped to yield substantial structural change.…”

“…Likewise, the majority of the literature mentioning accountability does so incontestably, as though there is some accountable state or individual that can be objectively determined. Common references to government accountability (Murillo, ; eg, N. V. Raman, ; Sadoway & Shekhar, ) or transparency and accountability (Canares, ; Michener, ; eg, van Schalkwyk et al, ) impel readers to draw on their own tacit understandings of accountability to make judgements, without providing much theoretical grounding or analytical cues for how to identify accountability within the studies. We view this pattern as a tendency for authors to construct hypothetical outcomes, providing an idealized structure within which their narratives are contained.…”

The Impact of Open Development Initiatives in Lower‐ and Middle Income Countries: A Review of the Literature

“…Like crowdsourcing studies, adoption factors within open government or open government data (OGD) literature also focused on processes but typically examined community/organizational processes rather than individual motivations. Developing processes to find the connections between internal creators/maintainers and external user and community groups was key as a means to understand needs and the environment (Chattapadhyay, 2014;van Schalkwyk, Willmers and McNaughton, 2015). These findings also seem like important pre-cursors to technical findings related to prioritizing interoperability and developing open standards to facilitate multi-stakeholder interaction (Paroški et al, 2015).…”