Purpose: The purpose of this exploratory study is to provide modern local governments with potential use cases for their open data, in order to help inform related future policies and decision-making. The concrete con...Purpose: The purpose of this exploratory study is to provide modern local governments with potential use cases for their open data, in order to help inform related future policies and decision-making. The concrete context was that of the Vaxjo municipality located in southeastern Sweden.Design/methodology/approach: The methodology was two-fold: 1) a survey of potential end users(n=151) from a local university;and, 2) analysis of survey results using a theoretical model regarding local strategies for implementing open government data.Findings: Most datasets predicted to be useful were on: sustainability and environment;preschool and school;municipality and politics. The use context given is primarily research and development, informing policies and decision making;but also education, informing personal choices, informing citizens and creating services based on open data. Not the least, the need for educating target user groups on data literacy emerged. A tentative pattern comprising a technical perspective on open data and a social perspective on open government was identified. Research limitations: In line with available funding, the nature of the study was exploratory and implemented as an anonymous web-based survey of employees and students at the local university. Further research involving(qualitative) surveys with all stakeholders would allow for creating a more complete picture of the matter. Practical implications: The study determines potential use cases and use contexts for open government data, in order to help inform related future policies and decision-making.Originality/value: Modern local governments, and especially in Sweden, are faced with a challenge of how to make their data open, how to learn about which types of data will be most relevant for their end users and what will be different societal purposes. The paper contributes to knowledge that modern local governments can resort to when it comes to attitudes of local citizens to open government data in the context of an open government data perspective.展开更多
With the advent and widespread information and communication technologies, pace of human activity has accelerated markedly new industries, new management techniques. And in the world community, now prevalent idea of d...With the advent and widespread information and communication technologies, pace of human activity has accelerated markedly new industries, new management techniques. And in the world community, now prevalent idea of democracy with equal rights and freedoms for all citizens of a democratic state is a risk and a challenge to the integrity of a community. Against this background, it becomes important not only process control, but also a system of communication between society and the state. For effective interaction between society and the state, the government needs a new, streamlined platform for the provision of public services. This site was e-government. Currently, the concept of ＂open government＂ is implemented in the administration of the state in all developed countries. This paper deals with modern communication mechanism of the state and society in Russia, for example, ＂e-government＂, and the effectiveness of this mechanism in the process of changing demands of society.展开更多
On April 24, 2007 the State Council promulgated Regulations of the People＇s Republic of China on Open Governrnent Information （referred to as Regulations below）, which will become effective on May 1, 2008. As the f...On April 24, 2007 the State Council promulgated Regulations of the People＇s Republic of China on Open Governrnent Information （referred to as Regulations below）, which will become effective on May 1, 2008. As the first administrative role of the central government of China that aims to safeguard the public＇s right to know, the Regulations are of great significance in China＇s democratization and its establishment of the role of law.展开更多
Purpose:This research endeavors to investigate the impact of open government data on corporate investment,emphasizing the exploration of underlying mechanisms,heterogeneous effects,and implications for investment effi...Purpose:This research endeavors to investigate the impact of open government data on corporate investment,emphasizing the exploration of underlying mechanisms,heterogeneous effects,and implications for investment efficiency.Utilizing the implementation of government data open platforms as a quasi-natural experiment,this study aims to elucidate how public data transparency affects firms’investment decisions and resource allocation.Design/methodology/approach:This study employs a staggered Difference-in-Differences(DID)model as its principal methodological framework.This approach facilitates causal inference by examining the differential changes in corporate investment between firms influenced by the data openness policy and those that remain unaffected over time.Findings:The findings indicate that open government data substantially enhance corporate investment levels.A mechanistic analysis identifies three principal channels through which this effect is mediated:alleviation of overall financing constraints,reduction of financing costs,and expansion of the financing scale.A heterogeneity analysis suggests that the positive impact is more pronounced in state-owned enterprises,high-tech firms,and companies experiencing elevated levels of macroeconomic uncertainty.Moreover,the transparency of government data improves the responsiveness of corporate investment to emerging opportunities,thereby augmenting the overall efficiency of corporate investment.Research limitations:This study primarily examined the influence of government data transparency on corporate investment,while not accounting for the effects of macroeconomic variability,internal corporate governance frameworks,and industry-specific regulatory policies.Practical implications:Government open data platforms can effectively boost corporate investment and resource allocation.Policymakers should focus on improving the quality and accessibility of these data,especially in areas with high economic uncertainty,to support business investments.Firms,particularly high-tech and financially constrained firms,can use open data to ease capital limitations and find investment opportunities.Regulators should promote data transparency to enhance economic vitality through efficient corporate investments.Originality/value:This study enhances the existing literature by offering causal evidence of the impact of open government data on corporate investment,a subject that has been relatively underexplored empirically.By employing a quasi-natural experiment centered on the implementation of government data platforms,this study adopts a robust methodological approach to address endogeneity issues,thereby advancing methodological rigor in investigations of public data governance and corporate behavior.展开更多
Purpose: This paper aims to assess if the extent of openness and the coverage of data sets released by European governments have a significant impact on citizen trust in public institutions.Design/methodology/approach...Purpose: This paper aims to assess if the extent of openness and the coverage of data sets released by European governments have a significant impact on citizen trust in public institutions.Design/methodology/approach: Data for openness and coverage have been collected from the Open Data Inventory 2018(ODIN), by Open Data Watch;institutional trust is built up as a formative construct based on the European Social Survey(ESS), Round 9. The relations between the open government data features and trust have been tested on the basis of structural equation modelling(SEM).Findings: The paper reveals that as European governments improve data openness, disaggregation, and time coverage, people tend to trust them more. However, the size of the effect is still small and, comparatively, data coverage effect on citizens' confidence is more than twice than the impact of openness.Research limitations: This paper analyzes the causal effect of Open Government Data(OGD) features captured in a certain moment of time. In upcoming years, as OGD is implemented and a more consistent effect on people is expected, time series analysis will provide with a deeper insight.Practical implications: Public officers should continue working in the development of a technological framework that contributes to make OGD truly open. They should improve the added value of the increasing amount of open data currently available in order to boost internal and external innovations valuable both for public agencies and citizens.Originality/value: In a field of knowledge with little quantitative empirical evidence, this paper provides updated support for the positive effect of OGD strategies and it also points out areas of improvement in terms of the value that citizens can get from OGD coverage and openness.展开更多
Evaluating government openness is important in monitoring government performance and promoting government transparency. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an evaluation system for information openness of local gove...Evaluating government openness is important in monitoring government performance and promoting government transparency. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an evaluation system for information openness of local governments. In order to select evaluation indicators, we conducted a content analysis on current evaluation systems constructed by researchers and local governments and the materials of a case study on a local government. This evaluation system is composed of 5 first-tier indicators, 30 secondtier indicators and 69 third-tier indicators. Then Delphi Method and Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) Method are adopted to determine the weight of each indicator. At last, the practicability of the system is tested by an evaluation of the local government of Tianjin Binhai New Area, which has been undergoing administrative reform and attempting to reinvent itself in the past 5 years.展开更多
文摘Purpose: The purpose of this exploratory study is to provide modern local governments with potential use cases for their open data, in order to help inform related future policies and decision-making. The concrete context was that of the Vaxjo municipality located in southeastern Sweden.Design/methodology/approach: The methodology was two-fold: 1) a survey of potential end users(n=151) from a local university;and, 2) analysis of survey results using a theoretical model regarding local strategies for implementing open government data.Findings: Most datasets predicted to be useful were on: sustainability and environment;preschool and school;municipality and politics. The use context given is primarily research and development, informing policies and decision making;but also education, informing personal choices, informing citizens and creating services based on open data. Not the least, the need for educating target user groups on data literacy emerged. A tentative pattern comprising a technical perspective on open data and a social perspective on open government was identified. Research limitations: In line with available funding, the nature of the study was exploratory and implemented as an anonymous web-based survey of employees and students at the local university. Further research involving(qualitative) surveys with all stakeholders would allow for creating a more complete picture of the matter. Practical implications: The study determines potential use cases and use contexts for open government data, in order to help inform related future policies and decision-making.Originality/value: Modern local governments, and especially in Sweden, are faced with a challenge of how to make their data open, how to learn about which types of data will be most relevant for their end users and what will be different societal purposes. The paper contributes to knowledge that modern local governments can resort to when it comes to attitudes of local citizens to open government data in the context of an open government data perspective.
文摘With the advent and widespread information and communication technologies, pace of human activity has accelerated markedly new industries, new management techniques. And in the world community, now prevalent idea of democracy with equal rights and freedoms for all citizens of a democratic state is a risk and a challenge to the integrity of a community. Against this background, it becomes important not only process control, but also a system of communication between society and the state. For effective interaction between society and the state, the government needs a new, streamlined platform for the provision of public services. This site was e-government. Currently, the concept of ＂open government＂ is implemented in the administration of the state in all developed countries. This paper deals with modern communication mechanism of the state and society in Russia, for example, ＂e-government＂, and the effectiveness of this mechanism in the process of changing demands of society.
文摘On April 24, 2007 the State Council promulgated Regulations of the People＇s Republic of China on Open Governrnent Information （referred to as Regulations below）, which will become effective on May 1, 2008. As the first administrative role of the central government of China that aims to safeguard the public＇s right to know, the Regulations are of great significance in China＇s democratization and its establishment of the role of law.
基金supported by the following grants:National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.72271147)Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(Grant No.2022A1515010573)+3 种基金STU Scientific Research Initiation(Grant No.STF21005STF21004)the Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project of Guangdong Province(Grant No.GD21CGL12GD23XYJ76).
文摘Purpose:This research endeavors to investigate the impact of open government data on corporate investment,emphasizing the exploration of underlying mechanisms,heterogeneous effects,and implications for investment efficiency.Utilizing the implementation of government data open platforms as a quasi-natural experiment,this study aims to elucidate how public data transparency affects firms’investment decisions and resource allocation.Design/methodology/approach:This study employs a staggered Difference-in-Differences(DID)model as its principal methodological framework.This approach facilitates causal inference by examining the differential changes in corporate investment between firms influenced by the data openness policy and those that remain unaffected over time.Findings:The findings indicate that open government data substantially enhance corporate investment levels.A mechanistic analysis identifies three principal channels through which this effect is mediated:alleviation of overall financing constraints,reduction of financing costs,and expansion of the financing scale.A heterogeneity analysis suggests that the positive impact is more pronounced in state-owned enterprises,high-tech firms,and companies experiencing elevated levels of macroeconomic uncertainty.Moreover,the transparency of government data improves the responsiveness of corporate investment to emerging opportunities,thereby augmenting the overall efficiency of corporate investment.Research limitations:This study primarily examined the influence of government data transparency on corporate investment,while not accounting for the effects of macroeconomic variability,internal corporate governance frameworks,and industry-specific regulatory policies.Practical implications:Government open data platforms can effectively boost corporate investment and resource allocation.Policymakers should focus on improving the quality and accessibility of these data,especially in areas with high economic uncertainty,to support business investments.Firms,particularly high-tech and financially constrained firms,can use open data to ease capital limitations and find investment opportunities.Regulators should promote data transparency to enhance economic vitality through efficient corporate investments.Originality/value:This study enhances the existing literature by offering causal evidence of the impact of open government data on corporate investment,a subject that has been relatively underexplored empirically.By employing a quasi-natural experiment centered on the implementation of government data platforms,this study adopts a robust methodological approach to address endogeneity issues,thereby advancing methodological rigor in investigations of public data governance and corporate behavior.
文摘Purpose: This paper aims to assess if the extent of openness and the coverage of data sets released by European governments have a significant impact on citizen trust in public institutions.Design/methodology/approach: Data for openness and coverage have been collected from the Open Data Inventory 2018(ODIN), by Open Data Watch;institutional trust is built up as a formative construct based on the European Social Survey(ESS), Round 9. The relations between the open government data features and trust have been tested on the basis of structural equation modelling(SEM).Findings: The paper reveals that as European governments improve data openness, disaggregation, and time coverage, people tend to trust them more. However, the size of the effect is still small and, comparatively, data coverage effect on citizens' confidence is more than twice than the impact of openness.Research limitations: This paper analyzes the causal effect of Open Government Data(OGD) features captured in a certain moment of time. In upcoming years, as OGD is implemented and a more consistent effect on people is expected, time series analysis will provide with a deeper insight.Practical implications: Public officers should continue working in the development of a technological framework that contributes to make OGD truly open. They should improve the added value of the increasing amount of open data currently available in order to boost internal and external innovations valuable both for public agencies and citizens.Originality/value: In a field of knowledge with little quantitative empirical evidence, this paper provides updated support for the positive effect of OGD strategies and it also points out areas of improvement in terms of the value that citizens can get from OGD coverage and openness.
基金jointly supported by the Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Chinese Ministry of Education(Grant No.10YJA870021)Center for Asia Research of Nankai University(Grant No.AS0917)
文摘Evaluating government openness is important in monitoring government performance and promoting government transparency. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an evaluation system for information openness of local governments. In order to select evaluation indicators, we conducted a content analysis on current evaluation systems constructed by researchers and local governments and the materials of a case study on a local government. This evaluation system is composed of 5 first-tier indicators, 30 secondtier indicators and 69 third-tier indicators. Then Delphi Method and Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) Method are adopted to determine the weight of each indicator. At last, the practicability of the system is tested by an evaluation of the local government of Tianjin Binhai New Area, which has been undergoing administrative reform and attempting to reinvent itself in the past 5 years.
