Title
Open data adoption in Australian government agencies: an exploratory study.
Abstract
Australia is among the leading countries that envisaged releasing unclassified public data under open license and reusable format with no further restriction on re/use. But, according to the Australian Information Commissioner John McMillan, Australiau0027s progress on open data is u0027patchyu0027 and u0027transitionalu0027. He also evidenced that although a few agencies are proactive and have embraced the movements quite seriously, still there are many obstacles that worked against effort to make government information and data discoverable and usable (Hilvert 2013). Despondently, there is little empirical evidence that could explain what makes public departments not to release public data. Driven by the nature of the research, this study conducted an exploratory field study in Australia by interviewing eleven employees from six different government agencies. Applying content analysis technique, this study identifies six important antecedents to adoption of open data in public organisations, and proposes future research to test their relationships. As the main theoretical contribution, this study extends organisational behaviour toward technology diffusion. The findings of this study incite policymakers and managers to think about and prepare future strategies on open data developments.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
arXiv: Computers and Society
Open data,Content analysis,Empirical evidence,Public relations,Computer science,Interview,Exploratory research,Government,License
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1606.02500
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
11
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohamamd Hossain110.35
Caroline Chan2627.41