Developing a model to readiness assessment of open government data in public institutions in Colombia

Abstract

Open data is a movement that has gained worldwide political relevance as a strategy that supports active transparency, access to public information, and the generation of public, social, and economic value. To know the progress and results of open data initiatives, governments, working groups, international organizations, and researchers have proposed indexes and evaluation models. These measurements focus on the evaluation of aspects of the preparation, implementation, and impact of open data initiatives. In Colombia, the national government within the framework of its digital government policy defined the open data project. The progress in data openings is monitored through international indexes and the open government index, which focuses solely on the publication and use of open government data. This research deals with the evaluation of the preparation for the opening of data, in public entities that have not implemented an open data initiative. The study gives a general description of the evaluation of open data at the international and national level, identifies aspects to be considered to measure the preparation, and proposes a conceptual model of evaluation to measure the preparation in open data of a public sector entity. This proposal can be considered as a tool that generates information that supports the design and implementation of an effective open data initiative.