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Open Government Data in Educational Programs Curriculum: Current State and Prospects

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Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2023)

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Extant research on Open Government Data (OGD) has remained confined to the grappling of issues linked with its conceptual, theoretical and empirical dimensions, however focusing on the supply of OGD physical capital (ODG portals, datasets, etc.), and to a lesser degree on the demand for it (e.g., needs of potential users), but not dealing with relevant OGD human capital (human knowledge and skills concerning OGD). Furthermore, research on meta-analysis or literature reviews has not expanded its scope to unravel the formation of OGD human capital, and especially how the OGD theme is being showcased across universities’ curriculum. The present research aims to contribute to filling this research gap, through an analysis of the OGD-related programs and courses offered at the graduate and post-graduate levels across the top-notch universities identified as per the indicators of the QS World University rankings, 2023. Our theoretical foundation is the widely recognized ‘Human Capital Theory’ from the economic science, which gives prominence to the importance of the human capital (human knowledge and skills) as an important complement of the classical physical capital (e.g., production equipment, ICT capital, etc.). Our findings indicate that there are only small number of courses concerning OGD in these top-notch universities; furthermore, a very small share of them have OGD an main topic, while most of them include only a part concerning OGD. Most of them focus on the exploitation of OGD of a specific thematic domain (mainly urban studies and health), and only a few deal with OGD in general. Furthermore, there is a prevalence of postgraduate courses, offered as part of MSC programs, followed by undergraduate courses, offered as part of BSC study programs, and to a much lesser degree short courses. Also, with respect to the objective of these OGD-related programs and courses, most of them aim at the generation of scientific value from OGD, while a smaller number aim at the generation of social-political value, and only a much smaller number at the development of economic value. Therefore, it can be concluded that the formation of OGD human capital by the examined universities is limited.

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We acknowledge the financial support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 955569. The research was partially funded by TODO project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857592.

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    Georgios Papageorgiou, Euripidis Loukis, Georgios Pappas, Yannis Charalabidis & Charalampos Alexopoulos

  2. Department of Informatics in Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

    Nina Rizun

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Papageorgiou, G. et al. (2023). Open Government Data in Educational Programs Curriculum: Current State and Prospects. In: Hinkelmann, K., López-Pellicer, F.J., Polini, A. (eds) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research. BIR 2023. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 493. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43126-5_22

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