What is it about?
This research explores and demonstrates, in an illustrative manner by means of a comparative cross-jurisdictional analysis of open data platforms in more than 30 countries, consistent institutional aspects in their development. It is based on an online content analysis of local, sub-national, national and supranational open data platforms, conducted in 2016–2017. This study heavily relies on analysis of rich empirical data derived from diverse administrative contexts that could be observed today in many countries. The findings suggest new agendas for further research.
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Why is it important?
This research note has shown that the scale of progression and tempo of stratification of the institution of open data ecosystems is multidimensional, whether it is at local, sub-national, national or supranational levels of governance. This cross-jurisdictional comparative view has demonstrated that open data platforms, which are promoted today all over the world, are affected by surrounding institutional contexts, especially in countries with different forms of government and traditions of administrative and territorial division. This has resulted in the evolution of three such distinctly separate institutional ecosystems of open data, which could tentatively be denominated as e-federalism, e-centralism and e-confederalism.
Perspectives
This research note explores consistent patterns in the development of open data phenomena in various institutional contexts. The research is based on cross-jurisdictional analysis of open data platforms promoted today in more than 30 countries at local, sub-national, national and supranational levels. Key findings suggest that, institutionally, the instrumentation of the concept is a highly context dependable undertaking. Almost all observed cases tend to be affected by fundamental administrative frameworks within which they are promoted, which could generally be classified in accordance with three consistently repetitive institutional patterns. The research note offers a new research agenda to elaborate further on open data as institutional phenomena.
Dr Maxat Kassen
Astana IT University
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This page is a summary of: Open data and its institutional ecosystems: A comparative cross-jurisdictional analysis of open data platforms, Canadian Public Administration, March 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/capa.12251.
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