News and Research articles on Open government

Volume 12, Issue 2

Voting in online surveys on open government policies in Moldova and Ukraine

Dmytro Khutkyy, University of Tartu
Olga Matveieva, Dnipro University of Technology
Diana Mirza-Grisco, Independent researcher
PUBLISHED ON: 21 Jun 2023 DOI: 10.14763/2023.2.1712

This international comparative research explores the socio-political impact of voting in online surveys on voters, civil society organisations, government authorities and open government overall in Moldova and Ukraine.

KEYWORDS: Open government, Online surveys, Ukraine, Moldova, Voting behaviour
Volume 11, Issue 1

Openness

Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Academia Sinica
Rebecca C. Fan, Academia Sinica
Ming-Syuan Ho, Academia Sinica
Kalpana Tyagi, Maastricht University
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Mar 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.1.1643

Openness is contextual. Open implies access to resources or participatory mode of production that can be otherwise closed or restricted in degrees. Openness does not necessarily lead to inclusiveness or equity, even though it may be used to invoke such ideals.

KEYWORDS: Openness, Access, Interoperability, Open source, Open access, Open government
Open data

Open government data emerging, trust in government declining

Monika Ermert, Heise, Intellectual Property Watch, VDI-Nachrichten

PUBLISHED ON: 28 Nov 2013

According to the fourth edition of the eGovernment Monitor, released on November 28, the number of users of eGovernment services in Sweden in 2013 was 53 percent, compared to 70 percent in 2012. On average, the decline in all monitored countries was as high as 8 percent.

Open government

Hard times for open data

Monika Ermert, Heise, Intellectual Property Watch, VDI-Nachrichten

PUBLISHED ON: 15 Jul 2013

Despite a flurry of commitments, real open data progress seems slow, according to a new census. And then, there are governments excelling in both open and secret data.