Open data ecosystem

Open data is the data that is freely available for use, reuse, and distribution, even commercially. Open data is considered a valuable source for both private and public entities. Public entities, such as government institutions, release their data for transparent and accountable government. However, in this era, many governments are releasing their data as open data through the Open Data portal. Citizens, researchers, businesses, and other NGOs can access these datasets. In this way, the current issues with open data systems are: supplier-driven, linear in value-driven, which means unfair distribution of values among open data stakeholders, exclusive in terms of participation of wider actors, and effort-based in terms of getting value out of the data. The open data ecosystem can resolve these issues if we change the supplier-driven with user-driven strategy, exclusion with inclusive strategy where a wider audience can take advantage of open data, linear to circular in terms of fair value distribution, and effort-based to skill-based open data ecosystems. In this way, the open data systems can be transformed into sustainable and value-creating open data ecosystems.

Further study

ODECO (Towards a sustainable Open Data ECOsystem)

• https://odeco-research.eu/

• https://zenodo.org/communities/odeco-research/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest

• https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/article/view/644