What is it about?
Are open data and open government two different competing ecosystems? Asking such a question to many practitioners and researchers could seem unusual and intriguing as these two phenomena are often regarded as related to each other. Yet as an atypical case of such a truly ubiquitous digital state as Estonia demonstrates it is not always a case.
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Why is it important?
The key findings of the research, which are intrinsically based on the analysis of rich empirical data from various political and socioeconomic contexts and observation of institutional cases within one country, could be interesting for both professional and academic communities, especially in understanding how exactly promising yet often quite obscure algorithms of open data phenomena work in a real life context.
Perspectives
One of the primary aims of the article, which claims to be a practice-based paper that heavily relies on the analysis of perspectives from various stakeholders, is to understand what kind of challenges in political, economic and social spheres contribute to or hinder the diffusion of the open data movement as an effective tool of public sector reforms in an environment of a highly developed digital state.
Dr Maxat Kassen
Astana IT University
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This page is a summary of: Open data and e-government – related or competing ecosystems: a paradox of open government and promise of civic engagement in Estonia, Information Technology for Development, December 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2017.1412289.
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