Reconciling contradictions of open data regarding transparency, privacy, security and trust

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 32-44

  Meijer, Ronald ^a   Conradie, Peter ^b,c   Choenni, Sunil ^a,b  

^a Ministry of Security and Justice   (Netherlands)

^b ROTTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Open data; Precommirment; Privacy; Security; Transparency; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905659516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 07181876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0718-18762014000300004     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. D. Bawden, C. Holtham and N. Courtney, Perspectives on information overload, Aslib Proceedings, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 249-255, 1999.
2. D. Bawden and L. Robinson, The dark side of information: Overload anxiety and other paradoxes and pathologies, Journal of Information Science, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 180-191, 2009.
3. J. Benington and M. H. Moore, Public Value: Theory and Practice. Great Britain: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
4. G. Boulton, M. Rawlins, P. Vallance, and M. Walport, Science as a public enterprise: the case for open data, The Lancet, vol. 377, no. 9778, pp. 1633-1635, 2011.
5. S. Choenni and R. Meijer, From police and judicial databases to an offender-oriented data warehouse, in Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Society, Avila, Spain, 2011, pp. 98-105.
6. S. Choenni, P. van Waart and G. De Haan, Embedding human values into information system engineering methodologies, in Proceedings ECIME 2011, 5th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, Italy, 2011, pp. 101-108.
7. P. Conradie and S. Choenni, Exploring process barriers to release public sector information in local government, in Proceedings 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, Albany, NY, 2012, pp. 5-13.
8. P. Conradie, I. Mulder and S. Choenni, Rotterdam open data: Exploring the release of public sector information through co-creation, in Proceedings ICE 2012: International Conference on Engineering, Technology And Innovation, Munich, 2012, pp. 187-196.
9. P. Dasgupta, Trust as a commodity, in Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, Electronic. (D. Gambetta, Ed.). Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, New York: Blackwell Publishing, 2000, pp. 49-72.
10. S. S. Dawes, Stewardship and usefulness: Policy principles for information-based transparency, Government Information Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 377-383, 2010.
11. M. Dekkers, F. Polman, R. te Velde, and M. de Vries. (2006, June) MEPSIR: Measuring European public sector information resources. European Commission. [Online]. Available: http: //ec.europa.eu/information_society/ policy/psi/docs/pdfs/ mepsir/final_report.pdf.
12. D. E. Denning and P. J. Denning, Data security, ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 227-249, 1979.
13. Donner, Betreft Hergebruik en Open Data: naar betere vindbaarheid en herbruikbaarheid van overheidsinformatie. Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties, Den Haag, pp. 1-9, 2011.
14. L. Dubé and G. Paré, Rigor in information systems positivist case research: Current practices, trends, and recommendations, Mis Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 597-635, 2003.
15. J. Elster, Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints. Cambridge: University Press, 2000.
16. European Commission. (2013, April) Data {pipe} European Union Open Data Portal, European Union Open Data Portal. [Online]. Available: http: //open-data.europa.eu/.
17. European Parliament of the European Union, Directive 95/46/EC, Official Journal L 281, pp. 0031-0050, 1995.
18. D. Gambetta, Can we trust trust?, in Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations (B. Blackwell Ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2000, pp. 213-237.
19. C. P. Geiger and J. Von Lucke, Open government and (Linked) (Open) (Government) (Data), JeDEM-eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 265-278, 2012.
20. Gemeente Rotterdam. (2013, April) Stadsbeheer. Rotterdam Worldportworldcity. [Online]. Available: http: //www.rotterdam.nl/gw.
21. S. G. Grimmelikhuijsen and A. J. Meijer, The effects of transparency on the perceived trustworthiness of a government organization: Evidence from an online experiment, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 137-157, 2014.
22. S. Grimmelikhuijsen, G. Porumbescu, B. Hong, and T. Im, The effect of transparency on trust in government: A cross-national comparative experiment, Public Administration Review, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 575-586, 2013.
23. M. Grimsley and A. Meehan, e-Government information systems: Evaluation-led design for public value and client trust, European Journal of Information Systems, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 134-148, 2007.
24. M. Gutmann and K. Witkowski, Providing spatial data for secondary analysis: Issues and current practices relating to confidentiality, Population Research and Policy Review, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 639-665, 2008.
25. J. Heilbron, Wetenschappelijk onderzoek: dilemma's en verleidingen, 2005.
26. K. Janssen, The influence of the PSI directive on open government data: An overview of recent developments, Government Information Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 446-456, Oct. 2011.
27. S. Kalidien, S. Choenni and R. Meijer, Crime statistics online: potentials and challenges, in Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference on Public Administration Online: Challenges and Opportunities, Pueblo, Mexico, 2010, pp. 131-137.
28. N. Kroes. (2011, October) Public data for all-opening up Europe's public sector. European Commission. [Online]. Available: http: //ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/en/blog/public-data-for-all-%E2%80%93-opening-up-europes-public-sector
29. S. Kulk and B. Van Loenen, Brave new open data world, International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, vol. 7, pp. 196-206, 2012.
30. Z. Kurth-Nelson and A. D. Redish, Don't let me do that!-models of precommitment., Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol. 6, p. 138, 2012.
31. LinkedGov. (2011, January) What is open data?. LinkedGov. [Online]. Available: http: //linkedgov.org/what-is-open-data/.
32. A. Meijer, Understanding modern transparency, International Review of Administrative Sciences, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 255-269, Jun. 2009.
33. R. Meijer, S. Choenni, R. S. Alibaks, and P. Conradie, Bridging the contradictions of open data, in Proceedings 13th European Conference on eGovernment, Como, Italy, 2013, pp. 329-336.
34. M. H. Moore, Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
35. J. O'Flynn, From new public management to public value: Paradigmatic change and managerial implications, Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 353-366, 2007.
36. B. Obama. (2009) Transparency and open government. The White House. [Online]. Available: http: //www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Transparency_and_Open_Government
37. P. Ohm, Broken promises of privacy: Responding to the surprising failure of anonymization, Social Science Research Network, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 1-64, 2009.
38. Open Knowledge Foundation. (2011, September) What is open data?. Open Data. [Online]. Available: http: //okfn.org/opendata/.
39. J. Rajamäki, J. Tervahartiala, S. Tervola, S. Johansson, L. Ovaska, and P. Rathod, How transparency improves the control of law enforcement authorities' activities?, in Proceedings 2012 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, Odense, Denmark, 2012, pp. 14-21.
40. ROB, Gij zult openbaar maken: Naar een volwassen omgang met overheidsinformatie, Den Haag, 2012.
41. C. J. Schuyt, Zorgvuldig en integer omgaan met wetenschappelijke onderzoeksgegevens, Advies van de KNAW-commissie onderzoeksgegevens, Amsterdam, 2012.
42. N. Shadbolt, K. O'Hara, T. Berners-Lee, N. Gibbins, H. Glaser, W. Hall, and M. C. Schraefel, Linked open government data: lessons from Data. gov. uk, IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 16-24, 2012.
43. N. Stembert, P. Conradie, I. Mulder, and S. Choenni, Participatory Data Gathering for Public sector reuse: Lessons learned from traditional initiatives, in IFIP EGOV (2013): IFIP Electronic Government, vol. 8074, pp. 87-98, 2013.
44. V. Stodden, The scientific method in practice: Reproducibility in the computational sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Sloan Research Paper, No. 4773-10, 2010.
45. K. Sweeny, Open Data: Meaning, context and implication, 2009.
46. C. Talbot, Public value-the next big thing in public management?, International Journal of Public Administration, vol. 32, no. 3-4, pp. 167-170, 2009.
47. S. W. van den Braak, S. Choenni, R. Meijer, and A. Zuiderwijk, Trusted third parties for secure and privacy-preserving data integration and sharing in the public sector, in Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research-dg. o '12, New York, 2012, p. 135.
48. R. Velde, Public Sector Information: Why Bother?, The Socioeconomic Effects of Public Sector Information on Digital Networks: Toward a Better Understanding of Different Access and Reuse Policies, 2009.
49. J. A. G. Versmissen, Achtergrondstudies en Verkenningen: Sleutels van vertrouwen TTP's, digitale certificaten en privacy, Den Haag, 2001.
50. E. Welch and C. Hinnant, Internet use, transparency, and interactivity effects on trust in government, in Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, 2003, pp. 1-7.
51. I. Williams and H. Shearer, Appraising public value: Past, present and futures, Public Administration, vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 1367-1384, 2011.
52. [52] WODC. (2011, June) Organization: Aim and role. English WODC. [Online]. Available: https://english.wodc.nl/ organisatie/
53. A. Zuiderwijk, M. Janssen, S. Choenni, and R. Meijer, Design principles for improving the process of publishing open data, Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, vol. 8, no. 2, 2014.
54. A. Zuiderwijk, M. Janssen, R. Meijer, S. Choenni, Y. Charalabidis, and K. Jeffery, Issues and guiding principles for opening governmental judicial research data, in Proceedings 11th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2012, Kristiansand, Norway, 2012, pp. 90-101.