Business Owners’ Feedback toward Adoption of Open Data: A Case Study in Kuwait

Nayef Alawadhi,Abdulrahman Alkandari,Siba Kalaie Chab,Imad Al Shaikhli,Yang Li

doi:10.1155/2021/6692410

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https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6692410

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The world intention toward open data technology has increased in the past years, and governments started to explore open data technology in the public and private sectors and tried to check its advantages and disadvantages. However, in the Arab world and especially in Kuwait, there is no solid structured attention about the technology in both sectors. As a result, we tried in this paper to determine if business owners in Kuwait have enough knowledge of the open data (OD) concept and if they have the willingness to use it for enhancing their services. The purpose of this research is to measure the acceptance of OD technology in Kuwait and to gather business owners' opinions about the ability to adopt the OD concept. Making online and hardcopy survey was our method for gathering different reactions and points of view about this technology. We intended to focus on the private sector and we targeted people who own a business and wish to introduce better services for their customers. Overall, the results have shown clear features about open data technology in Kuwait and the substantial need of education and awareness of the importance of this technology. The results of this study may positively and directly affect the level of motivation for other existing studies.

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XBusiness owners are trying to find the best solutions to make rabid changes in their business field and to use various ways to introduce the best services for their customers and to provide a better labor environment to their employees
With the rising of development and discovering new technologies to get the high quality of the introduced products, open data (OD) has emerged to be one of the most important technologies all over the world in many places and involved to make the data available in business field to be known as business data (BD) aka open commercial data
We tried to introduce questions to measure how business owners can find the OD concept important to them, if they will accept applying it in future, if they find it as a bad influence, and if it has a none effective change to their work and company

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XBusiness owners are trying to find the best solutions to make rabid changes in their business field and to use various ways to introduce the best services for their customers and to provide a better labor environment to their employees. With the rising of development and discovering new technologies to get the high quality of the introduced products, open data (OD) has emerged to be one of the most important technologies all over the world in many places and involved to make the data available in business field to be known as business data (BD) aka open commercial data. Open data points to reutilize and change the data and information by anybody with beneficial purposes for different sectors under certain constraints. Open data technology has been found in different fields such as information technology (IT), science, and health [2]. E goal of open data technology is to get benefit from the nonindividual and nonmerchant information into data that can be used again by everyone. A 5-star open dataset should comply with all these requirements:

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