TY - GEN
T1 - Behavioral factors influencing the opening of government data by civil servants
T2 - 13th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2020
AU - Kleiman, Fernando
AU - Meijer, Sebastiaan
AU - Janssen, Marijn
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The actual opening of government data is done by civil servants operating within their institutional environment. As such, the institutional environment and their behavior towards the opening of data is key to increase the quality and quantity of open data. However, few studies have analyzed the behavior of government professionals towards open data policy. The objective of this paper is to review the existing literature to find the factors that influences civil servants behaviors towards open data. To identify the drivers and barriers, a literature review was performed listing the most cited papers with "open government data"and "barriers"focusing specific at the behavioral related factors. Even with the increasing of research on the topic of open data, still most of the papers focus on user drivers and barriers rather than on provider challenges. Even less studies focus on the civil servants' individual level of factors influencing their support to the release of governmental data. Most barriers found in the literature are related to infrastructural or technical issues. Whereas some individual level behavioral barriers could be found, including culture, lack of individual incentives and misunderstanding the impact of opening data, broader discussions on social norms, lack of education and experience are still missing in the literature. This paper contributes to the need for deeper understanding of the behavioral factors that influences the civil servants to support the opening of data.
AB - The actual opening of government data is done by civil servants operating within their institutional environment. As such, the institutional environment and their behavior towards the opening of data is key to increase the quality and quantity of open data. However, few studies have analyzed the behavior of government professionals towards open data policy. The objective of this paper is to review the existing literature to find the factors that influences civil servants behaviors towards open data. To identify the drivers and barriers, a literature review was performed listing the most cited papers with "open government data"and "barriers"focusing specific at the behavioral related factors. Even with the increasing of research on the topic of open data, still most of the papers focus on user drivers and barriers rather than on provider challenges. Even less studies focus on the civil servants' individual level of factors influencing their support to the release of governmental data. Most barriers found in the literature are related to infrastructural or technical issues. Whereas some individual level behavioral barriers could be found, including culture, lack of individual incentives and misunderstanding the impact of opening data, broader discussions on social norms, lack of education and experience are still missing in the literature. This paper contributes to the need for deeper understanding of the behavioral factors that influences the civil servants to support the opening of data.
KW - Behavioral Barriers
KW - Decision-Making
KW - Open Data Policy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85095963074&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3428502.3428582
DO - 10.1145/3428502.3428582
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85095963074
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 529
EP - 534
BT - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2020
A2 - Charalabidis, Yannis
A2 - Cunha, Maria Alexandra
A2 - Sarantis, Demetrios
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Y2 - 23 September 2020 through 25 September 2020
ER -