Agnes Owuato Odongo
ABSTRACT
Open Government Data (OGD) is where the public sector relinquishes its role as information gatekeeper and become information provider. This realigns power dynamics between the public and private sectors. Open and transparent governments are more accountable to their citizens and less corrupt. Openness generates trust in government, paves way for meaningful citizen participation and more informed and better policies. This paper addresses the question: How does OGD arouse development opportunity generation? To explore and illustrate how development opportunities can be generated using OGD, we proposed a conceptual model that generates noticeable techniques resulting in economic development opportunities. This portrays the contributory pathways between OGD, social factors and technological factors that can generate development opportunities. We looked at overall economic and societal impacts from OGD and examine OGD initiatives as the unit of analysis.
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