TY - GEN
T1 - Connecting users, data and utilization
T2 - 14th International Conference on Information in Contemporary Society, iConference 2019
AU - Wang, Di
AU - Richards, Deborah
AU - Chen, Chuanfu
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Open government data (OGD) could bring various aspects of benefits through transparency and access. Thus, governments have proposed policies and practices to disclose more data to the public. However, studies have shown the utilization of OGD instead of disclosure as a key problem. Although citizens are recognized as a key participant in the utilization process of OGD from demand-side, few studies have revealed the possible relationship among OGD users, their demands of data and utilization. Therefore, our study carried out a survey on a Chinese population to analyse the possible relationship between these three. Results show citizens’ limited awareness of OGD and portals, and their different demands of OGD subjects due to different socio-demographic characteristics. Daily life and anticorruption were the two main types of OGD utilization by citizens. Their types of usage are affected by their education and knowledge of OGD. Different types of utilization could lead to different demands for OGD subjects. We suggest governments to improve citizens’ awareness of their efforts to provide OGD, and deliver more data in the subject categories that are in greater need by citizens. Further studies need to be carried out on citizens’ motivation of OGD utilization.
AB - Open government data (OGD) could bring various aspects of benefits through transparency and access. Thus, governments have proposed policies and practices to disclose more data to the public. However, studies have shown the utilization of OGD instead of disclosure as a key problem. Although citizens are recognized as a key participant in the utilization process of OGD from demand-side, few studies have revealed the possible relationship among OGD users, their demands of data and utilization. Therefore, our study carried out a survey on a Chinese population to analyse the possible relationship between these three. Results show citizens’ limited awareness of OGD and portals, and their different demands of OGD subjects due to different socio-demographic characteristics. Daily life and anticorruption were the two main types of OGD utilization by citizens. Their types of usage are affected by their education and knowledge of OGD. Different types of utilization could lead to different demands for OGD subjects. We suggest governments to improve citizens’ awareness of their efforts to provide OGD, and deliver more data in the subject categories that are in greater need by citizens. Further studies need to be carried out on citizens’ motivation of OGD utilization.
KW - Data need
KW - Data user
KW - Data utilization
KW - Open government data
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85064037964&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-15742-5_47
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-15742-5_47
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85064037964
SN - 9783030157418
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 488
EP - 500
BT - Information in Contemporary Society
A2 - Taylor, Natalie Greene
A2 - Christian-Lamb, Caitlin
A2 - Martin, Michelle H.
A2 - Nardi, Bonnie
PB - Springer-VDI-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
CY - Switzerland
Y2 - 31 March 2019 through 3 April 2019
ER -