Why do Open Government Data initiatives fail in developing countries? A root cause analysis of the most prevalent barriers and problems

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/isd2.12297" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/isd2.12297</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/isd2.12297" target="_blank" >10.1002/isd2.12297</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Why do Open Government Data initiatives fail in developing countries? A root cause analysis of the most prevalent barriers and problems

Original language description

Open government data (OGD) include the provision of government data, which have so far been reserved for the provision of public utilities and services, wherein different stakeholders may create value out of the same source. Recently, OGD initiatives around the world have dampened or were found to be inadequate for one or other reasons. The present study seeks to underline the root causes behind these inadequate or stalled initiatives with a specific focus on the developing countries. This article undertakes a literature review of the most significant studies in this area, followed by a root cause analysis wherein the database across Scopus and Web of Science has been explored with the set inclusion and exclusion criteria being set in line with the research focusing on the hinderances and bottlenecks behind the failure of OGD initiatives (n similar to 15), thus not only summarizing what has been revealed in previous studies but also identifying these &quot;root-cause&quot; relationships, which are responsible for the stalled OGD projects. A deep understanding of the literature on OGD shows that research of OGD barriers repeat each other. The results show that the main root causes include politico-administrative, social, technological, legal and organizational (inter- and intra) dimensions including aspects like state of the economy, infrastructural issues, the tendency to copy the OGD initiative without need to institutionalize the same, and so forth. Whereas a number of studies are available covering the barriers in the roll-out and implementation of OGD initiatives, the root causes behind the existence of these barriers have not been identified so far-the present study seeks to plug this gap. Besides being a contribution to the extant OGD literature in general, the study seeks to leave academic and practical implications for furthering up deliberations and discussions on the OGD themes with specific impetus upon the cause analysis of the failure in OGD initiatives and the manner in which the same may be corrected or preempted.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

ISSN

1681-4835

e-ISSN

1681-4835

Volume of the periodical

90

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

"e12297"

UT code for WoS article

001153641300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85168889120