Location
Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii
Event Website
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/
Start Date
7-1-2025 12:00 AM
End Date
10-1-2025 12:00 AM
Description
The food system covers all parts, from farm to fork, and is a complex system of private and public partnerships. The system generates, builds on, and uses several sets of big data. This open government data is scattered, generated by market actors and partly framed through government control. This paper explores potentials to manage open government data more transparently, especially regarding the locations and functions of the food system and elaborates on the design of crises management in regard to open government data on the food system in Sweden. To investigate this, we have conducted focus group workshops with local stakeholders and found that the available data are far from comprehensive and compatible. We designed a dummy platform of crises management support on open government data on food. Our analysis shows that the lack of useful and compatible data constrains the possibilities to build a useful platform for crises preparation.
Recommended Citation
Wihlborg, Elin and Hamberg, Sofia, "How on Earth Do We Get Food on the Table? - An Explorative Study of the Scattered Open Government Data in the Food System and Local Crises Management" (2025). Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2025 (HICSS-58). 6.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-58/dg/disaster_and_crisis_management/6
How on Earth Do We Get Food on the Table? - An Explorative Study of the Scattered Open Government Data in the Food System and Local Crises Management
Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii
The food system covers all parts, from farm to fork, and is a complex system of private and public partnerships. The system generates, builds on, and uses several sets of big data. This open government data is scattered, generated by market actors and partly framed through government control. This paper explores potentials to manage open government data more transparently, especially regarding the locations and functions of the food system and elaborates on the design of crises management in regard to open government data on the food system in Sweden. To investigate this, we have conducted focus group workshops with local stakeholders and found that the available data are far from comprehensive and compatible. We designed a dummy platform of crises management support on open government data on food. Our analysis shows that the lack of useful and compatible data constrains the possibilities to build a useful platform for crises preparation.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-58/dg/disaster_and_crisis_management/6