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Publication date
25/09/2020

Price (ZA)
R300.00

Book size
234 x 158 mm

Pages
256

Language
English

ISBNs
Paper: 978-1-928502-12-8
eBook: 978-1-928502-13-5
ePub: 978-1-928502-14-2

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Situating Open Data: Global Trends in Local Contexts

Edited by Danny Lämmerhirt, Ana Brandusescu, Natalia Domagala & Patrick Enaholo

Open data and its effects on society are always woven into infrastructural legacies, social relations, and the political economy. This raises questions about how our understanding and engagement with open data shifts when we focus on its situated use. 

To shed a light on these questions, Situating Open Data provides several empirical accounts of open data practices, the local implementation of global initiatives, and the development of new open data ecosystems. Drawing on case studies in different countries and contexts, the chapters demonstrate the practices and actors involved in open government data initiatives unfolding within different socio-political settings. 

The book proposes three recommendations for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners. First, beyond upskilling through ‘data literacy’ programmes, open data initiatives should be specified through the kinds of data practices and effects they generate. Second, global visions of open data implementation require more studies of the resonances and tensions created in localised initiatives. And third, research into open data ecosystems requires more attention to the histories and legacies of information infrastructures and how these shape who benefits from open data flows. 

As such, this volume departs from the framing of data as a resource to be deployed. Instead, it proposes a prism of different data practices in different contexts through which to study the social relations, capacities, infrastructural histories and power structures affecting open data initiatives. It is hoped that the contributions collected in Situating Open Data will spark critical reflection about the way open data is locally practiced and implemented. The contributions should be of interest to open data researchers, advocates, and those in or advising government administrations designing and rolling out effective open data initiatives.

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Table of contents

About this book v
Acknowledgements v
About the editors vi
Introduction vii

Chapter 1 What technology and open data can do for women in Kosovo: A critical assessment of the potential of ICT skills programmes and open data to empower women in the ICT sector in Kosovo | Natalia Domagala
Chapter 2 Journalists and the intermediation of open data: A Nigerian perspective | Patrick Enaholo & Doyinsola Dina
Chapter 3 Using open data for public services | Miranda Marcus, Ed Parkes, Therese Karger-Lerchl, Jack Hardinges & Roza Vasileva
Chapter 4 Localising global commitments: Open data in sub-national contexts in Indonesia and the Philippines | Michael Cañares
Chapter 5 Closing the gaps in open data implementation at sub-national government level in Indonesia | Ilham Cendekia Srimarga & Markus Christian
Chapter 6 The cost of late payments in public procurement | Juan Pane, Camila Salazar & Julio Paciello
Chapter 7 Connecting flows and places: Flows of (open) data to, from and within hyperlocal communities in Tanzania | François van Schalkwyk
Chapter 8 Decentralised open data publishing for the public transport route planning ecosystem | Julián Rojas, Bert Marcelis, Eveline Vlassenroot, Mathias van Compernolle, Pieter Colpaert & Ruben Verborgh
Chapter 9 Building a framework for the analysis of factors to creation and growth of an open data ecosystem | Edson Carlos Germano, Nicolau Reinhard & Violeta Sun
Chapter 10 From theory to practice: Open government data, accountability and service delivery | Michael Christopher Jelenic

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