Open Government efforts are criticized for providing limited value. Instead of looking at a
value, we investigate the usefulness of web-based open government portals and apps …

The opening of data has been credited for improving transparency and for providing a
window on government functioning. Although this relationship is intuitively apparent, it is in …

Under pressure to fight corruption, hold public officials accountable, and build trust with
citizens, many governments pursue the quest for greater transparency. They publish data …

Purpose The purpose of this paper was to draw on evidence from computer-mediated
transparency and examine the argument that open government data and national data …

This study aims to assess whether the current structure and organization of some of the most
prominent open government portals ('data. gov'type) is adequate for supporting …

Transparency in the public sector is one of the most important topics of the current debates
on accountable, participatory, and responsive governance. An open government addresses …

In recent years, we have witnessed a renewed interest in Open Government around the
world (Bertot, Jaeger, & Grimes, 2010). The movement is not new, but it has followed a …

Open government data, as a phenomena, may be considered an important and influential
innovation that has the potential to drive the creation of public value via enabling the …

Growing open data initiatives are offering different solutions for opening governmental data
to the public. Open data platform solutions provide simple tools for enriching governmental …

The wide spread of the internet, mobile technologies and social networks facilitated the
emergence of open concepts. Open data concept means to unfold data to the public free of …