Abstract
The availability of open, relevant, and up-to-date public data is becoming an increasingly important dimension of national competitiveness and sustainable development. It serves as a foundation for novel technologies, such as big data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, to take root and flourish, and it can help improve the quality and efficiency of government decision making and render governments more transparent and accessible to the public. Often referred as Open Government Data, or OGD, governments around the world have committed resources to constructing various OGD platforms. However, building a robust and effective OGD system has proved difficult, as the promise of OGD has not been realized fully around the world. At this important juncture, this study aims to explore the relationship between national technological and organizational capacities and environmental factor and the quality of OGD systems. In addition, national innovativeness and the degree of “globalization” in a country and their moderating effects between the predictors and OGD performance are examined. Our findings indicate strong positive effects of national technological capacity, government organization capacity, and globalization on OGD quality and a positive moderating effect of national innovativeness.
Highlights
The increasing availability of public government data offers internal and external stakeholders a broad range of opportunities
Our findings showed that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure was a necessary condition, rather than a sufficient condition, as the government’s organizational capacity matters significantly in maintaining a high performance OpenGovernment Data (OGD) system
Opening government data is a critical element of modern government in our complex, connected, and globalized world with the emergence of novel and potentially disruptive technologies such as big data analytics, machine learning, cloud computing, and various forms of artificial intelligence
Summary
The increasing availability of public government data offers internal and external stakeholders a broad range of opportunities. Government Data (OGD), this increasing practice of making government data open and available to the general public aims to create a more transparent and accessible government. With the rising demand for OGD, governments around the world have devoted resources to building open government data platforms. They face various challenges in establishing effective open government data systems, and the promise of open government data has not been sufficiently realized across countries [13,14]. With the backdrop of increasing open data practice around the world, this study aims to determine the performance of OGD systems using the technology-organization-environment (TOE)
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