Proposed Amendments of Public Information Act Towards Data Governance Framework for Open Government Data: Context of Thailand

Abstract

Data Governance for open government data is a significant process which defines the roles and responsibilities of the person in charge of data management in a government agency to gain the open government data and to use it correctly, ensure the security of personal data including defining the standardization of data, consistency and effectively link and use open data between the agencies. Many countries have already considered data governance and dissemination of open government data to the citizen imperative. Although Thailand has prescribed a draft of public information act, data governance for government data is still unclear. Hence, this research proposes a conceptual legal framework for open government data in data governance aspects. The results of preliminary studies from the previous research are used in this paper including gap analysis and compare results between Public Information Act of the United States of America, the Republic of Korea and the current draft of Public Information Act of Thailand. The coverage issues are on the organizational structure, organizational roles, and responsibilities of Public Information Committee. The proposed amendments is applied in the current draft of the Public Information act for Thailand. This includes defining the standardization and security on open data by taking the existing data governance framework as a guideline for determining the procedures and compliance according to the data governance framework for Thailand.