Open Government Data Use in the Brazilian States and Federal District Public Administrations

Ilka Kawashita,Ana Alice Baptista,Delfina Soares

doi:10.3390/data7010005

Ilka Kawashita, Ana Alice Baptista + Show 1 more

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Abstract

This research investigates whether, why, and how open government data (OGD) is used and reused by Brazilian state and district public administrations. A new online questionnaire was developed and collected data from 26 of the 27 federation units between June and July 2021. The resulting dataset was cleaned and anonymized. It contains an insight on 158 parameters for 26 federation units explored. This article describes the questionnaire metadata and the methods applied to collect and treat data. The data file was divided into four sections: respondent profile (identify the respondent and his workplace), OGD use/consumption, what OGD is used for by public administrations, and why OGD is used by public administrations (benefits, barriers, drivers, and barriers to OGD use/reuse). Results provide the state of the play of OGD use/reuse in the federation units administrations. Therefore, they could be used to inform open data policy and decision-making processes. Furthermore, they could be the starting point for discussing how OGD could better support the digital transformation in the public sector.

Highlights

Public institutions produce, collect, and aggregate vast amounts of data and publish it as open data [1]
open government data (OGD) has not been extensively adopted in public sector organizations, in developing countries [3]
Forty-six barriers were categorized to an expanded OGD process

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Introduction

Collect, and aggregate vast amounts of data and publish it as open (government) data [1]. Open data provides opportunities for governments worldwide to implement some of their digital transformation processes [2]. Open government data (OGD) has the potential to improve operations efficiency, evidence-based and data-driven policymaking and increase transparency, accountability, civil participation, and trust in government. OGD has not been extensively adopted in public sector organizations, in developing countries [3]. The literature provides insights into the barriers to OGD adoption, sharing, use, and reuse. Forty-six barriers were categorized to an expanded OGD process (suitability, release, publish, use, and evaluation)

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