Abstract
The recent trend of open government in the worlds has created an avalanche of initiatives, metrics, and research paths. However this directions are usually random and disperse. Governments around the world understand the trend with different perspectives, focus and theoretical approaches. Neverthelss the open government perspective is evolving step by step. This paper proposes an assessment framework to contribute on the line of reflection and understand of open government initiatives. And helps policymakers, stakeholders, practicioners and scholars to improve this field and spend public resources in a more accurate way. The paper is structured as follows: an introductory section that leads the open government problem and directions; a second section of literature review; a third section of model proposal and a final section of discussion and future research.
Highlights
IntroductionThe fast changing evolution of technologies and the widespread trend of electronic government around the world, has become the accelerator for this notion as the initiative of Open Government Partnership, or the Open Government Directive launched by the Obama’s Administration on 2009 (White House, 2009), and the very recent Open Government License from the UK government (Government, 2011)
Open government has become a confusing and ambiguous idea
This paper proposes an assessment framework to contribute on the line of reflection and understanding of open government initiatives
Summary
The fast changing evolution of technologies and the widespread trend of electronic government around the world, has become the accelerator for this notion as the initiative of Open Government Partnership, or the Open Government Directive launched by the Obama’s Administration on 2009 (White House, 2009), and the very recent Open Government License from the UK government (Government, 2011) This is one of the possible reasons for the misunderstanding. It seems that due to the Cold War, this not possible and the government secrecy remained in the world until the eighties This main direction is focused on the legal right that citizens have to access the government information. This information, produced by the public administration, must be considered as a part of the public domain (Chapman & Hunt, 1986)
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