What is it about?
The main purpose of this paper is to shed light on the collaborative potential of peer-to-peer interactions to boost open data-driven public sector innovations and elaborate on the potential of these distributed networks to transform classical mechanisms of data-driven partnership not only between traditional actors such as government agents, citizens, developers and businesses, but, more importantly, between peers themselves, equally in civic, public and private sectors of the economy. The research is based on the analysis of empirical data that have been collected by the author from the context of three demonstrative cases in Estonia, Finland and Sweden.
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Why is it important?
The peer-to-peer perspective on open data is an interesting topic to research, taking into account that data-driven innovations and related startups are often developed independently by civic and private stakeholders in a highly collaborative manner and are tentatively beginning to directly compete with traditional e-government solutions, providing arguably better services to citizens and businesses. In this regard, the paper aims to further debate on the potential of such independent data-driven collaboration not only to transform the traditional mechanisms of public sector innovations but also provide more democratic ways to ensure greater transparency of government and its responsibility before the society.
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The paper’s results demonstrate that the use of peer-to-peer mechanisms in advancing related public sector reforms allows to transform the traditional understanding of e-government phenomena in a conceptually new way. E-government or its last more political interpretation – from the perspective of its peers could be regarded not necessarily as a platform to provide digital public services but as a source of raw material for various third party projects in, respectively, civic, government and business peer-to-peer dimensions of such reforms. As a result, open data provides an interesting playground to change the very nature of public sector innovations in the area.
Dr Maxat Kassen
Astana IT University
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This page is a summary of: Open data and its peers: understanding promising harbingers from Nordic Europe, Aslib Journal of Information Management, June 2020, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ajim-12-2019-0364.
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