engleski

Government open data portal: How government strategies should be more open

Open data is information which can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone, anywhere, at no cost, and for any purpose. Open data policy is a relatively new phenomenon and is thus in an early stage of development. Since government strategies are issues of significant public interest, open data policy obtained a special attention in the field of open government data (OGD). Goal of the paper is to give more insight into following issues: (i) critics on the low government openness of the government despite the fact on the significant shift in the openness, (ii) causes of the low score on the data openness of governmental institutions, (iii) impact of the government reforms to greater confidence of the public and state institutions creditability, and (iv) selection of the information about public sector that should be available as open data in terms of the basic definitions and possibilities of their use in machine-readable format.

open data; open government data; transparency; public sector; ICT

nije evidentirano