Many countries around the world are opening their data on all levels of government. Open data mandates are institutionalized in form of policies, followed by the publication of data. Depending on the degree of innovativeness, financial and political support, the implementation of open data release varies across government organizations. Important future research questions embrace not only the drivers or barriers of open data release, but also how data is reused and how new organizational roles or innovative forms of collaboration with stakeholders emerge as government organizations gain momentum in the implementation process. This workshop brings together different perspectives of open data implementation and future steps of the utilization of open data. In particular, the workshop will discuss ongoing efforts to: scale-up the publishing of open data; exploit open data to solve big societal issues around the world, mainstream open data consumption by ordinary citizens, harvesting conversation data from social media platforms, and developing next generation open data platforms.