Open data as a collaborative trend: understanding peer-to-peer interactions

• In Event: Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Comparative Context

Abstract

The peer-to-peer perspective in open data politics is probably the most interesting topic to research. Yet it is the least developed in related academic and professional studies in the sphere, especially in an empirical manner. In this respect, the key purpose of the article, which mostly relies on a multiple cross-country case study analysis, is to explore the practical aspects of open data movement as a networking phenomenon, which rapid and widespread diffusion today in a number of countries indirectly affects communication processes in a wide array of human activities, providing new effective platforms to enhance dramatically political participation and cooperation in the e-government sphere. In this respect, the key findings of the research suggest that the realization of the open government concept could transform traditional channels of collaboration via new information and communication technologies not only in interactions between traditional stakeholders such as government agents, citizens, developers and businesses, but, more importantly, between the peers of the open data movement itself equally in public, private and non-governmental sectors of economy.

Author

• Maxat Kassen, Nazarbayev University