Open Government Data (OGD): The Implementation of Its Principles in Ten Leading Countries
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OGD is undoubtedly a strategic asset for public sector since it enhances economic development, creates innovation, drives evidence-based policy, and increases government transparency and accountability. Data quality is said to play an essential role in the mentioned benefit creation. Its quality remains relatively dependent on a government’s principles which may yield different outcomes based on its differences. This research aimed to compare and contrast OGD policies that are focused on the principles for opening up data in ten leading countries as case studies including the United Kingdom, Canada, France, the United States of America, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Netherland, and Norway as ranked by the Open Data Barometer. The document analysis with using content analysis was employed to analyze the available and relevant documents (i.e. laws and regulations, government policies and plans, government reports, and so on). Findings reported that all ten counties perceived their OGD as a strategic public asset. There are eight principles involved in opening up government data namely, (1) completeness, (2) machine - readability, (3) open standards or open formats, (4) non-discrimination, (5) timeliness, (6) cost-free, (7) open license, and (8) open-by-default. The findings can serve as a fundamental guideline for designing and establishing an OGD policy in terms of development and evaluation. Understanding how to implement its principles effectively will boost up national development potentiality in data utilization.
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