Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Open Government: Transforming Data into Value-Added City Services

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Book cover Citizen’s Right to the Digital City

Abstract

Open data and open government are topics which are not new, but today we can see initiatives which transform data into value-added services. But are there real world examples where those services make the city “smart?” We are going to define open urban government data in the context of e-Government and m-Government. This chapter reports on an investigation about the open urban government data and hackathon movement on a global scale and takes a deeper look at the real world examples of Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Paris. It will be discussed which challenges governments are confronted with to make open data available as well as the role of hackathons in the development of mobile applications based on this data.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.socrata.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/How-to-Run-a-Hackathon.pdf.

  2. 2.

    http://govfresh.com/2012/12/civic-apps-competition-theres-a-book-for-that/.

References

  • AngelHack. (2011). What is AngelHack? www.angelhack.com/about-us/. Accessed November 28, 2014.

  • Balch, O. (2013). Can open data power a smart city revolution? www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/open-data-power-smart-city. Accessed June 2, 2015.

  • Baraniuk, C. (2013). The civic hackers reshaping your government. New Scientist, 218(2923), 36–39. doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(13)61625-5.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Belanger, F., Carter, K. D., & Schaupp, L. C. (2005). U government: A framework for the evolution of e government. Electronic Government: An International Journal, 2(4), 426–445.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bellone, C., & Goerl, G. F. (1992). Entrepreneurship democracy. Public Administration Review, 52(2), 130–134.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bettencourt, L. M. A. (2014). The uses of big data in cities. Big Data, 2(1), 12–22. doi:10.1089/big.2013.0042.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Briscoe, G., & Mulligan, C. (2014). Digital innovation: The Hackathon phenomenon. CreativeWorks London Working Paper No. 6. London: CreativeWorks.

    Google Scholar 

  • Carroll, J. M., & Ganoe, C. H. (2009). Supporting community with location-sensitive mobile applications. In M. Foth (Ed.), Handbook of research on urban informatics: The practice and promise of the real-time city (pp. 339–352). Hershey: IGI Global.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Charalabidis, Y., Loukis, E., & Alexopoulos, C. (2014). Evaluating second generation open government data infra-structures using value models. In Proceedings of the 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE Computer Society, Washington (pp. 2114–2126).

    Google Scholar 

  • Cisco. (2011). Press release. newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content;jsessionid=01230049AD3CA4E7D7A1C6438DD16818?type=webcontent&articleId=5918850. Accessed June 2, 2015.

  • Creswell, J. W. (2012). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dawes, S. S., & Helbig, N. (2010). Information strategies for open government: Challenges and prospects for deriving public value from government transparency. In M. A. Wimmer, et al. (Eds.), EGOV 2010, electronic government. Lecture notes in computer science (pp. 50–60). Berlin: Spinger.

    Google Scholar 

  • Desouza, K. C., & Bhagwatwar, A. (2012). Citizen apps to solve complex urban problems. Journal of Urban Technology, 19(3), 107–136. doi:10.1080/10630732.2012.673056.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Flick, U. (2009). An introduction to qualitative research. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gurstein, M. B. (2011). Open data: Empowering the empowered or effective data use for everyone? First Monday, 16.

    Google Scholar 

  • Headd, M. (2011). Open government hackathons matter. govfresh.com/2011/08/open-government-hackathons-matter/. Accessed November 28, 2014.

  • Huijboom, N., & Van Den Broek, T. (2011). Open data: An international comparison of strategies. European Journal of ePractice, 12(1–13), 4–16.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hung, S.-Y., Chang, C.-M., & Kuo, S. R. (2013). User acceptance of mobile e-government services: An empirical study. Government Information Quarterly, 30(1), 33–44. doi:10.1016/j.giq.2012.07.008.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hunter, F. (2013). The civic innovation ecosystem blooms in 2012. What’s next? innovatesf.com/category/open-data/. Accessed November 28, 2014.

  • IBM. (2015). Press release https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/46566.wss. Accessed June 2, 2015.

  • Immonen, A., Palviainen, M., & Ovaska, E. (2014). Requirements of an open data based business ecosystem. IEEE Access, 2, 88–103. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2014.2302872.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Janssen, K. (2011). The influence of the PSI directive on open government data: An overview of recent developments. Government Information Quarterly, 28(4), 446–456. doi:10.1016/j.giq.2011.01.004.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jetzek, T., Avital, M., & Bjørn-Andersen, N. (2013). Generating value from open government data. In Thirty Fourth International Conference on Information Systems, Milan (20 pp).

    Google Scholar 

  • Johnson, P., & Robinson, P. (2014). Civic Hackathons: Innovation, procurement, or civic engagement? Review of Policy Research, 4(31). doi:10.1111/ropr.12074.

  • Kitchin, R. (2014). The real-time city? Big data and smart urbanism. GeoJournal, 79(1), 1–14. doi:10.1007/s10708-013-9516-8.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kuhn, K. (2011). Open government data and public transportation. Journal of Public Transportation, 14(1), 83–97.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lathrop, D., & Ruma, L. (2010). Open government: Collaboration, transparency, and participation in practice. California: O’Reilly Media.

    Google Scholar 

  • Liu, Y., Li, H., Kostakos, V., Goncalves, J., Hosio, S., & Hu, F. (2014). An empirical investigation of mobile government adoption in rural China: A case study in Zhejiang province. Government Information Quarterly, 31(3), 432–442.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mainka, A., Hartmann, S., Meschede, C., Stock, W. G. (2015a). Mobile application services based upon open urban government data. In Proceedings of the iConference 2015: Create, Collaborate, Celebrate, Newport Beach, California, USA, March 24–27, 2015. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: iSchools, IDEALS.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mainka, A., Hartmann, S., Stock, W. G., & Peters, I. (2015b). Looking for friends and followers: A global investigation of governmental social media use. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 9(2), 237–254. doi:10.1108/TG-09-2014-0041.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McDermott, P. (2010). Building open government. Government Information Quarterly, 27(4), 401–413. doi:10.1016/j.giq.2010.07.002.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mergel, I. (2013). Social media adoption and resulting tactics in the U.S. federal government. Government Information Quarterly, 30(2), 123–130. doi:10.1016/j.giq.2012.12.004.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Microsoft. (2014). Costumer storie. https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=270. Accessed June 2, 2015.

  • Millard, J. (2010). Government 1.5: Is the bottle half full or half empty? European Journal of ePractice, 9, 1–16.

    Google Scholar 

  • Moro, G. (2005). Citizens` evaluation of public participation. In OECD (Ed.), Evaluating public participation in policy making (pp. 109–125). Paris: OECD.

    Google Scholar 

  • OECD/ITU. (2011). M-Government. Mobile technologies for responsive governments and connected societies. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)/International Telecommunications Union (ITU), 2011.

    Google Scholar 

  • OKF. (date unknown). Open data handbook documentation/open knowledge foundation (OKF). Online: opendata-handbook.org/pdf/OpenDataHandbook.pdf.

  • Reddick, C. G. (2014). Citizens and mobile government adoption: A comparison of activities and uses. International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change, 1(1), 13–26. doi:10.4018/ijcesc.2014010102.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Scholl, H. J. (2012). Five trends that matter: Challenges to 21st century electronic government. Information Polity, 17(3–4), 317–327. doi:10.3233/IP-2012-0280.

    Google Scholar 

  • Scholl, H. J., & Scholl, M. C. (2014). Smart governance: A roadmap for research and practice. In Proceedings of iConference 2014 (pp. 163–176).

    Google Scholar 

  • van der Waal, S., Węcel, K., Ermilov, I., Janev, V., Milošević, U., & Wainwright, M. (2014). Lifting open data portals to the data web. In S. Auer, V. Bryl, & S. Tramp (Eds.), Linked open data—Creating knowledge out of interlinked data (pp. 175–195). Berlin: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09846-3_9.

  • Venkatesh, V., Sykes, T. A., & Venkatraman, S. (2014). Understanding e-Government portal use in rural India: Role of demographic and personality characteristics. Information Systems Journal, 24(3), 249–269.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wien.at. (2014). Nutzungsbedingungen. https://open.wien.at/site/open-data/nutzungsbedingungen/. Accessed November 28, 2014.

Appendix: List of Hackathons Mentioned in this Chapter

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Information Science, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Agnes Mainka, Sarah Hartmann, Christine Meschede & Wolfgang G. Stock

Authors
  1. Agnes Mainka
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Sarah Hartmann
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Christine Meschede
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Wolfgang G. Stock
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Agnes Mainka .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Urban Informatics Research Lab, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Marcus Foth

  2. Participatory IT Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Martin Brynskov

  3. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Timo Ojala

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Singapore

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Mainka, A., Hartmann, S., Meschede, C., Stock, W.G. (2015). Open Government: Transforming Data into Value-Added City Services . In: Foth, M., Brynskov, M., Ojala, T. (eds) Citizen’s Right to the Digital City. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-919-6_11

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation