TY - GEN
T1 - A Typology of Municipalities’ Roles and Expected User’s Roles in Open Government Data Release and Reuse
AU - Gebka, Elisabeth
AU - Castiaux, Annick
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. The study was performed with financial support by the FEDER and the Walloon Region (H2020), as part of the project “Wal-e-cities”.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The purpose of this paper is to identify the roles municipalities take when engaging in Open Government Data (OGD) and the expectations of user’s roles they imply. According to the output delivered, the user can relate to data or data-based solutions. OGD is data released by public organisations to enhance government transparency, innovation, and participation. The realization of those benefits involves different roles, from providing data, developing solutions, to using them for a certain purpose. However, the definition of the municipalities’ and users’ roles in that context is unclear, which can impact the realization of the OGD benefits. This study uses Role Theory’s concepts as an analytical lens, following the Design Science Research approach to create a typology. We conducted a hermeneutic literature review, identified, and analysed 52 papers, to build a typology of the municipalities’ roles based on the goals, tasks, output delivered, and the expected users’ roles they generate. It results in seven classes of roles coming in pairs. We tested the typology on empirical cases: the 28 Belgian and 158 Swedish municipalities engaged in OGD. Five role pairs were encountered in the empirical cases, and two occurred only in previous literature. The typology can help municipalities to understand how their role choice calls for a certain type of users that cannot be generalized as a “citizen”. Role Theory opens new perspectives of research to understand their interdependence and raises fundamental role-related questions that should be given the same importance as technical and technological challenges.
AB - The purpose of this paper is to identify the roles municipalities take when engaging in Open Government Data (OGD) and the expectations of user’s roles they imply. According to the output delivered, the user can relate to data or data-based solutions. OGD is data released by public organisations to enhance government transparency, innovation, and participation. The realization of those benefits involves different roles, from providing data, developing solutions, to using them for a certain purpose. However, the definition of the municipalities’ and users’ roles in that context is unclear, which can impact the realization of the OGD benefits. This study uses Role Theory’s concepts as an analytical lens, following the Design Science Research approach to create a typology. We conducted a hermeneutic literature review, identified, and analysed 52 papers, to build a typology of the municipalities’ roles based on the goals, tasks, output delivered, and the expected users’ roles they generate. It results in seven classes of roles coming in pairs. We tested the typology on empirical cases: the 28 Belgian and 158 Swedish municipalities engaged in OGD. Five role pairs were encountered in the empirical cases, and two occurred only in previous literature. The typology can help municipalities to understand how their role choice calls for a certain type of users that cannot be generalized as a “citizen”. Role Theory opens new perspectives of research to understand their interdependence and raises fundamental role-related questions that should be given the same importance as technical and technological challenges.
KW - Municipalities
KW - Open Government Data
KW - Roles
KW - Typology
KW - User
KW - open data
KW - e-Gov
KW - innovation
KW - cities
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85115179505&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-84789-0_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-84789-0_10
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85115179505
SN - 9783030847883
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 137
EP - 152
BT - Electronic Government
A2 - Scholl, Hans Jochen
A2 - Gil-Garcia, J. Ramon
A2 - Janssen, Marijn
A2 - Kalampokis, Evangelos
A2 - Kalampokis, Evangelos
A2 - Lindgren, Ida
A2 - Rodríguez Bolívar, Manuel Pedro
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 20th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2021, held in conjunction with the IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2021 and the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference, CeDEM 2021
Y2 - 7 September 2021 through 9 September 2021
ER -