A System of Innovation to Activate Practices on Open Data: The Open4Citizens Project

Nicola Morelli, Amalia de Götzen*, Luca Simeone

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Abstract

The increasing production of data is encouraging government institutions to consider the potential of open data as a public resource and to publish a large number of public datasets. This is configuring a new scenario in which open data are likely to play an important role for democracy and transparency and for new innovation possibilities, in relation to the creation of a new generation of public services based on open data. In this context, though, it is possible to observe an asymmetry between the supply side of open data and the demand side. While more and more institutions are producing and publishing data, there is no public awareness of the way in which such data can be used, nor is there a diffuse practice to work with those data. The definition of a practice for a large use of data is the aim of the Open4Citizens project, which promoted initiatives at different levels: at the level of immediate interaction between citizens, experts and open data, at the level of the creation of an ecosystem to work with data and at a level that could support the institutionalisation and consolidation of the new practice.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Interplay of Data, Technology, Place and People for Smart Learning- Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development
EditorsHendrik Knoche, Antonia Cartelli, Elvira Popescu
Number of pages11
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2019
Pages99-109
ISBN (Print)9783319920214
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event3rd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development, SLERD 2018 - Aalborg, Denmark
Duration: 23 May 201825 May 2018

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development, SLERD 2018
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityAalborg
Period23/05/201825/05/2018
SeriesSmart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
Volume95 SIST
ISSN2190-3018

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Open4Citizens (04C) is a European project supported by a funding scheme oriented toward Cooperative Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPSSI).

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019.

Keywords

  • Citizens participation
  • Innovation
  • Open data

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