The impact of impediments on open government data use: Insights from users

Jonathan Crusoe; Anthony Simonofski; Antoine Clarinval; Elisabeth Gebka

doi:10.1109/rcis.2019.8877055

The impact of impediments on open government data use: Insights from users

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Abstract

Open Government Data (OGD) is interoperable data that is published on the Internet by public organizations and can be freely used and redistributed by users. OGD is expected to result in several benefits, such as innovative products and services, collective problem solving, and equal access to information. However, several impediments complicate the realization of the benefits. These impediments can impact the process of using OGD that consists of the four phases: motivation, search and evaluate, access and prepare, and aggregate and transform. In this paper, we examine the case of a data science project conducted by master's students to understand how impediments impact their use. In order to study this case, we use a mixed-method approach combining a questionnaire sent to the 30 students and nine in-depth interviews. The analysis of the data allowed us to identify and discuss the impact of several impediments on use, such as difficulties in finding an idea and the lack of longitudinal data. Subsequently, we were able to give recommendations to publishers to improve their OGD portals, infrastructure, and data as well as opening up research directions in the OGD field.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication	RCIS 2019 - IEEE 13th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science: Towards a Design Science for Information Systems
Editors	Manuel Kolp, Jean Vanderdonckt, Monique Snoeck, Yves Wautelet
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728148441
ISBN (Print)	9781728148441
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/rcis.2019.8877055
Publication status	Published - May 2019
Event	13th IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2019 - Brussels, Belgium Duration: 29 May 2019 → 31 May 2019

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science
Volume	2019-May
ISSN (Print)	2151-1349
ISSN (Electronic)	2151-1357

Conference

Conference	13th IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2019
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Brussels
Period	29/05/19 → 31/05/19

Funding

The authors would like to thank the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) for financially supporting this research, respectively for the Wal-e-Cities and the FLEXPUB (subsidy no. [BR/154/A4/FLEXPUB]) project. The authors also thank Pr. Benoît Frénay, who allowed us to collect data in the context of the class project he supervised, and the students who accepted to take part in the interviews despite their busy schedule. Finally, we are thankful to the program committee of the conference for not taking advantage of April 1st to make a joke about the acceptance notification.

Keywords

Impact
Impediment
Mixed-method
Open government data
User process

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Crusoe, J., Simonofski, A., Clarinval, A., & Gebka, E. (2019). The impact of impediments on open government data use: Insights from users. In M. Kolp, J. Vanderdonckt, M. Snoeck, & Y. Wautelet (Eds.), Proceedings: RCIS 2019 - IEEE 13th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science: Towards a Design Science for Information Systems Article 8877055 (Proceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science; Vol. 2019-May). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/rcis.2019.8877055

Crusoe, Jonathan ; Simonofski, Anthony ; Clarinval, Antoine et al. / The impact of impediments on open government data use : Insights from users. Proceedings: RCIS 2019 - IEEE 13th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science: Towards a Design Science for Information Systems. editor / Manuel Kolp ; Jean Vanderdonckt ; Monique Snoeck ; Yves Wautelet. IEEE Computer Society, 2019. (Proceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science).

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Crusoe, J, Simonofski, A , Clarinval, A & Gebka, E 2019, The impact of impediments on open government data use: Insights from users. in M Kolp, J Vanderdonckt, M Snoeck & Y Wautelet (eds), Proceedings: RCIS 2019 - IEEE 13th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science: Towards a Design Science for Information Systems., 8877055, Proceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, vol. 2019-May, IEEE Computer Society, 13th IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2019, Brussels, Belgium, 29/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/rcis.2019.8877055

The impact of impediments on open government data use: Insights from users. / Crusoe, Jonathan; Simonofski, Anthony ; Clarinval, Antoine et al.
Proceedings: RCIS 2019 - IEEE 13th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science: Towards a Design Science for Information Systems. ed. / Manuel Kolp; Jean Vanderdonckt; Monique Snoeck; Yves Wautelet. IEEE Computer Society, 2019. 8877055 (Proceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science; Vol. 2019-May).

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Crusoe J, Simonofski A , Clarinval A , Gebka E. The impact of impediments on open government data use: Insights from users. In Kolp M, Vanderdonckt J, Snoeck M, Wautelet Y, editors, Proceedings: RCIS 2019 - IEEE 13th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science: Towards a Design Science for Information Systems. IEEE Computer Society. 2019. 8877055. (Proceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science). doi: 10.1109/rcis.2019.8877055

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