[open-government] IEEE Access "Open Data as a Foundation for Innovation: The Enabling Effect of Free Public Sector Information for Entrepreneurs"

[Kallberg, Jan]

"Open Data as a Foundation for Innovation: The Enabling Effect of Free Public Sector Information for Entrepreneurs" - just published in IEEE Access. 

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6584732

The paper is Open Access and the PDF can be downloaded. A few snippets,

"I. INTRODUCTION
Existing research on access to Public Sector Information
(PSI) is predominantly related to e-government inquiries
addressing aspects of democratic theory, voter participation,
democratic deliberation, and open government in a broader
context [1]. A secondary stream in the literature follows an
older discourse pursuing administrative excellence and public
cost reduction.
Governments accumulate massive amounts of digital infor-
mation that serves the government to manage, allocate,
administrate public programs, and collect tax revenue. In the
early 2000s a second perspective became vocal ? the demo-
cratic perspective [2]. Access to public sector information is
there seen as vital for the vitality of the civic society.
These two earlier directions in the literature are either
focused on the interests of the government or the citizens
as a political constituency. We introduce a third direction ?
the importance of public sector Open Data, the free dissem-
ination of PSI, as a foundation and catalyzer of innovation.
The conducted inquiry is providing evidence for a direct
correlation between feasible internet startup company activity
and access to Open Data."

and another


"VIII. CONCLUSION
The release of the public sector information data as Open
Data has a tangible direct payoff for the disseminating gov-
ernment in increased entrepreneurial activity, creating trig-
gers for internet startup realizations, and enhanced business
services. The conducted inquiry found evidence that the
bureaucratic resistance or retailing of processed data, while
not disseminating Open Data, had a signi?cant societal cost
in lost innovation, entrepreneurial incentive, and disabled
a vast number of new business plans to be executed. The
Open Data impact on Internet startups and entrepreneurial
innovation is so high that political executives could be left
with two choices ? feasible climate for Internet startup's inno-
vation or bureaucratic data retailing ? and they cannot have
both."

Regards,


Jan Kallberg, PhD

Cyber Operations Research Lab
Cyber Security Research and Education Institute
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas
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Richardson, TX 75083-0688

Email: jkallberg at utdallas.edu
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