The purpose of this paper is to explore the field of open development in lower and middle
income countries (LMIC) through a review of the literature. We examined 269 articles …

Drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyses of how open development
has played out in practice. A decade ago, a significant trend toward openness emerged in …

Open development concerns the application of digitally-enabled openness to radically
change human capability and governance contexts (Davies & Edwards, 2012; Smith & …

Openness has become an important, all‐encompassing term denoting activities facilitated
by sharing, using, producing, and redistributing information and communication resources …

Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the potential of open data to
bring about wide-scale transformation. The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of …

This chapter examines the relationship between open government data and social inclusion.
Twenty-eight open data initiatives from the Global South are analyzed to find out how and in …

Open Development (OD) is a subset of ICT4D that studies the potential of IT-enabled
openness to support social change among poor or marginalized populations. Early OD work …

Open development refers to an emerging set of possibilities to catalyze positive change
through “open” information-networked activities in international development. While there is …

Open data has rapidly moved from being a niche interest, to being part of the global policy
mainstream. Government-led open data initiatives have spread across the globe, and civil …

This chapter provides the contexts and rationale for the development of the Open and
Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet), a three-year research and …