This book combines theoretical and practical knowledge about key actors and driving forces that help to initiate and advance open data governance. Using Finland and Sweden as case studies, it sheds light on the roles of key actors in the open data movement, enabling researchers to understand the key operational elements of data-driven governance. Examining the most salient manifestations of related networking activities, the motivations of stakeholders, and the political and socioeconomic readiness of the public, private and civic sectors to advance such policies, it will appeal to e-government experts, policymakers and political scientists, as well as academics and students of public administration, public policy, and open data governance.
Chapter 1. Open data governance as a theoretical concept: a stakeholder and institutional analysis.- Chapter 2. Open data from the perspectives of individual actors of political communication.- Chapter 3. Understanding the perspectives of peer-to-peer actors in the open data movement.- Chapter 4. Open data governance in Finland: understanding the promise of public-private partnerships.- Chapter 5. Open data governance in Sweden: government data transparency in the context of social democracy.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Understanding the collaborative nature of open data governance.
Maxat Kassen is a former Fulbright Scholar at the University of Illinois, USA. His research focuses on e-government and open data politics.
