TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards value-creating and sustainable open data ecosystems
T2 - A comparative case study and a research agenda
AU - Van Loenen, Bastiaan
AU - Zuiderwijk, Anneke
AU - Vancau-Wenberghe, Glenn
AU - Lopez-Pellicer, Francisco J.
AU - Mulder, Ingrid
AU - Alexopoulos, Charalampos
AU - Magnussen, Rikke
AU - Saddiqa, Mubashrah
AU - Dulong De Rosnay, Melanie
AU - Crompvoets, Joep
AU - Polini, Andrea
AU - Re, Barbara
AU - Flores, Cesar Casiano
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgement: The authors acknowledge the financial support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 955569.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Department for E-Governance and Administration. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Current open data systems lag behind in their promised value creation and sustainability. The objective of the current study is twofold: 1) to investigate whether existing open data systems meet the requirements of open data ecosystems, and 2) to develop a research agenda that discusses the gaps between current open data systems on the one hand and participatory, value-creating, sustainable open data ecosystems on the other hand. The literature reveals that the main characteristics of value-creating, sustainable open data ecosystems are user-drivenness, inclusiveness, circularity, and skill-based. Our comparative case study of five open data systems in various application domains and countries highlighted that none of these systems are real open data ecosystems: They often do not balance open data supply and demand, exclude specific user groups and domains, are linear, and lack skill-training. We elaborate on a research agenda that discusses how research should address the challenge of making open data ecosystems more value-generating and sustainable.
AB - Current open data systems lag behind in their promised value creation and sustainability. The objective of the current study is twofold: 1) to investigate whether existing open data systems meet the requirements of open data ecosystems, and 2) to develop a research agenda that discusses the gaps between current open data systems on the one hand and participatory, value-creating, sustainable open data ecosystems on the other hand. The literature reveals that the main characteristics of value-creating, sustainable open data ecosystems are user-drivenness, inclusiveness, circularity, and skill-based. Our comparative case study of five open data systems in various application domains and countries highlighted that none of these systems are real open data ecosystems: They often do not balance open data supply and demand, exclude specific user groups and domains, are linear, and lack skill-training. We elaborate on a research agenda that discusses how research should address the challenge of making open data ecosystems more value-generating and sustainable.
KW - Ecosystems
KW - Open data
KW - Research agenda
KW - Sustainability
KW - Value creation
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85129535898
U2 - 10.29379/jedem.v13i2.644
DO - 10.29379/jedem.v13i2.644
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85129535898
SN - 2075-9517
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 27
JO - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government
JF - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government
IS - 2
ER -