Benefits and risks of open government data
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Public sector bodies maintain a large amount of data from various domains. This data represents a potential resource that organizations and individuals can use to enhance their own datasets or which can be used to develop new and innovative products and services. In order to foster the reuse of the data held by the public sector bodies a number of countries around the world has started to publish its data according to the Open Data principles. In this paper we present a set of benefits that can be achieved by publishing Open Government Data (OGD) and a set of risks that should be assessed when a dataset is considered for opening up. Benefits and risks presented in this paper were mostly identified during two of our OGD activities.
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Issues such as the unlawful disclosure of data, the infringement of trade secret protection, violations of privacy and breaches of the security of the infrastructure might have a severe negative impact.
“Issues such as the unlawful disclosure of data, the infringement of trade secret protection, violations of privacy and breaches of the security of the infrastructure might have a severe negative impact.”
From Opening up Smart Cities: Citizen-Centric Challenges and Opportunities from GIScience (2016) · cites this paper as [41]
There are risks related to the publication of open data that should be managed.
“Besides the benefits of open data for governments, citizens and businesses, there are also risks related to its publication that should be managed [41].”
From Opening up Smart Cities: Citizen-Centric Challenges and Opportunities from GIScience (2016) · cites this paper as [41]
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- Authors
- Kucera, J., & Chlapek, D.
- Affiliations
- Prague University of Economics and Business (CZ)
- Venue
- Journal of Systems Integration
- Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 30-41
- ISSN
- 1804-2724 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1524114866
- Cited by
- 103
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 41.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Systems Integration (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › E-Government and Public Services
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Media Technology › Smart Cities and Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
- Keywords
- open government data, open data principles, data reuse, government data
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