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Managing Factors that Affect Utilizations of Open Government Data: A Case Study of a Municipality

Hellgren, David LU and Nilsson, Christoffer LU (2018) INFM10 20181
Department of Informatics
Abstract
Governments and municipalities are now starting to open up their large amount of collected data and provide it as open government data. The opening of data is often simplified, and the complexity of the phenomena is generally not understood by municipalities. In line with this, the purpose of the thesis is to discuss how the factors that affect utilizations of open government data are being managed by municipalities. By studying existing literature, we identified factors that affect utilizations of open government data and consequently these factors created our theoretical framework. This framework was then used for our empirical data collection through a case study of a municipality, consisting of five interviews. Our findings show that... (More)
Governments and municipalities are now starting to open up their large amount of collected data and provide it as open government data. The opening of data is often simplified, and the complexity of the phenomena is generally not understood by municipalities. In line with this, the purpose of the thesis is to discuss how the factors that affect utilizations of open government data are being managed by municipalities. By studying existing literature, we identified factors that affect utilizations of open government data and consequently these factors created our theoretical framework. This framework was then used for our empirical data collection through a case study of a municipality, consisting of five interviews. Our findings show that factors affect utilizations of open government data in a varying degree and thus, some factors are managed by municipalities more than others. Since open government data was found to still be a new phenomenon within our empirical setting, a lot of factors affecting the utilizations were only partly managed. We found several major decisions that municipalities need to consider when managing factors that affect open government data utilizations in terms of data quality, formats and standards, and what audience to target with their data portal. (Less)
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author
Hellgren, David LU and Nilsson, Christoffer LU
supervisor
organization
course
INFM10 20181
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Open government data, Open data, Utilizations, Factors, Municipalities, Helsingborg
report number
INF18-014
language
English
id
8949532
date added to LUP
2018-06-19 13:31:30
date last changed
2018-06-19 13:31:30
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  abstract     = {{Governments and municipalities are now starting to open up their large amount of collected data and provide it as open government data. The opening of data is often simplified, and the complexity of the phenomena is generally not understood by municipalities. In line with this, the purpose of the thesis is to discuss how the factors that affect utilizations of open government data are being managed by municipalities. By studying existing literature, we identified factors that affect utilizations of open government data and consequently these factors created our theoretical framework. This framework was then used for our empirical data collection through a case study of a municipality, consisting of five interviews. Our findings show that factors affect utilizations of open government data in a varying degree and thus, some factors are managed by municipalities more than others. Since open government data was found to still be a new phenomenon within our empirical setting, a lot of factors affecting the utilizations were only partly managed. We found several major decisions that municipalities need to consider when managing factors that affect open government data utilizations in terms of data quality, formats and standards, and what audience to target with their data portal.}},
  author       = {{Hellgren, David and Nilsson, Christoffer}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Managing Factors that Affect Utilizations of Open Government Data: A Case Study of a Municipality}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}