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
Open government data (OGD) describes public data made available online for free use, reuse, and sharing to improve transparency, service delivery, and participatory governance. While OGD has been expected to enhance democratic engagement and economic development, its actual impact has fallen short in terms of value creation. This can be primarily attributed to the still limited use of OGD. Against this background, we conduct a scoping literature review to identify factors that drive or hinder OGD use, thereby differentiating between three use purposes (transparency/accountability, participation, and collaboration) and three types of OGD use (initial use, reuse, and deep use). Our results show that factors influencing OGD use differ considerably across use purposes and types. For example, awareness affects initial use, while high usability drives reuse. Based on our findings, we outline some future research directions on OGD use, which is a necessary requirement for value creation through such data.
Recommended Citation
Rau, Richard; Glaser, Karoline; and Wiener, Martin, "Factors Influencing the Use of Open Government Data: A Scoping Literature Review" (2025). Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2025 (HICSS-58). 2.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-58/dg/open_government/2
Factors Influencing the Use of Open Government Data: A Scoping Literature Review
Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii
Open government data (OGD) describes public data made available online for free use, reuse, and sharing to improve transparency, service delivery, and participatory governance. While OGD has been expected to enhance democratic engagement and economic development, its actual impact has fallen short in terms of value creation. This can be primarily attributed to the still limited use of OGD. Against this background, we conduct a scoping literature review to identify factors that drive or hinder OGD use, thereby differentiating between three use purposes (transparency/accountability, participation, and collaboration) and three types of OGD use (initial use, reuse, and deep use). Our results show that factors influencing OGD use differ considerably across use purposes and types. For example, awareness affects initial use, while high usability drives reuse. Based on our findings, we outline some future research directions on OGD use, which is a necessary requirement for value creation through such data.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-58/dg/open_government/2