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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"'Open government'"”.
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Open government information awareness
… a citizen's ability to monitor his or her government and the government's ability to monitor a citizen. Average citizens have limited access to important government records, while available information is often illegible. Meanwhile, the government's eagerness and means to oversee a …
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The social impact of open government data
… comparative study investigates the claim that open government data (OGD) should have a noticeable impact on marginalized groups’ inclusion in policy making. OGD researchers and practitioners conceptualize that society’s marginalized use OGD to achieve inclusion by overcoming information …
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Causal mechanisms that enable institutionalisation of open government data in Kenya
Open Government Data (OGD) has become a topic of prominence during the last decade. However, most governments have not realized the desired outcomes from OGD, which implies that the envisaged value streams have not been realized. This study defines three objectives that will help address this …
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Civic Atlas: Open Government, Civic Tech, and Making Zoning Case Data More Accessible
America’s founders believed that access to government records was essential for democracy. This belief was shared by the Obama Administration, which issued orders across the government to make documents more transparent.1 Even though these efforts focused on digitization, many documents are not …
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Open government data intermediaries : mediating data to drive changes in the built environment
In recent years open data initiatives, which make government data publicly available in a machine-readable format for reuse and redistribution, have proliferated, driven by the launch of open-data government initiatives such as data.gov and data.gov.uk. Research on open data has focused on its …
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Open government data publication and use in a developing country: a case of Ghana
Implementing Open Government Data (OGD) increases a government's ability to share data on its activities with citizens in machine-readable formats. OGD improves citizen participation, transparency, accountability and creates impact. By permitting more transparency, OGD helps citizens monitor …
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A Data Science Approach to Extracting Insights About Cities and Zones Using Open Government Data
… research, we introduce a system that utilizes open government data and machine learning algorithms to extract meaningful insights about cities and zones in the United States. It is estimated that 4% of the world’s population occupies the United States of America. Remarkably, the US is …
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Institutional perspective of digital open government implementation : a case study from Kuwaiti Ministry of Home Security
Digital open government uses avenues such as online means, websites, etc., to communicate with the citizens. For sharing data and delivering it in the digital open government service, we need digital facilities such as computers, mobile and fixed phones, amongst others, to facilitate access to …
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Exploring the factors that influence adoption of open government data for commercial service innovation in cities
… place to manage and exploit huge amount of data, open government data is seen as becoming more and more valuable in several contexts. Information Systems (IS) research on open data has been primarily focused on its contribution to e-government inquiries, government transparency, and open …
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An Empirical Study of Open Government Data and its Use by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Canada
Little research exists on the use of Open Government Data (OGD) by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). However, a few studies suggest that firms, including SMEs, can benefit from using OGD as a resource to stimulate growth and create value. This dissertation investigates the use of OGD by Canadian …
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Open Government Data. Dall empowerment del cittadino all innovazione nella pubblica amministrazione: il caso italiano in un ottica comparata
… Memorandum di Barack Obama su trasparenza e Open Government (2009) ad oggi il tema della riconfigurazione dei rapporti tra pubbliche amministrazioni e cittadini, e della liberazione delle public sector information, ha assunto un ruolo sempre più centrale nel dibattitto pubblico. La ricerca …
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Data for Housing Justice: Examining Activists’ Use of Open Government Data for Housing Justice in Boston, MA and New York, NY
Over the past decade, governments the world over have expanded access to public data through open government data (OGD) portals, from the local to national levels. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development describes OGD as a philosophy and a set of politics that aims to serve three …
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Governments in the spotlight? : on the use and impacts of freedom of information laws and proactive publication of government data
… manifestos to pass reforms increasing access to government information to root out corruption and improve public service delivery. Scholars have already offered several fascinating explanations of why governments adopt policies that constrain their choices. However, knowledge of their impacts is …
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Through the Social Web: Citizen-led Participation in Ontario Policy-making
In the mid to late 1990s, many states developed eGovernment programs that included the use of consultation technologies. More recently, the social characteristics of the web have emerged as offering an alternative means for citizen participation, promising more openness and inclusion. In this …
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Language technologies for understanding law, politics, and public policy
… and their application to large, text-based open government datasets. We focus on models that uncover patterns and insights by inferring the origins of legal and political texts, with a particular emphasis on identifying text reuse and text similarity in these document collections. First, we …
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Making change legible : public notices and the visual communication of planning in the U.S.
By making local government more visible, could well-designed rezoning notification signs encourage engagement with development processes? This thesis is a comparative study of posted public notice for rezoning actions in twenty US cities. It investigates the public notice sign as a designed …
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Does open data increase government accountability?
This project concerns itself with the impact of open data on government accountability. It critically assesses open data’s ability to increase the accountability of government in practice. The study offers insight into the positive dividends and potentially negative consequences of open data. It …
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AUTOBAN : secure low-power body area network for real-time physiological status monitoring
… and reference implementation named OBAN (Open Body Area Network), the purpose of which is to provide an open, government-owned framework for integrating multiple wearable sensors and applications. The OBAN implementation accepts data from various sensors enabling calculation of …
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Understanding e-government opportunities and challenges in developing countries. a case of Zambia
The adoption of e-government in developing countries has the potential to promote Open Government Data (OGD). OGD is a very critical component for good governance. This is because it encourages transparency, accountability, openness, trust, efficiency and participation. E-government is more than …
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