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Towards A Taxonomy of Emerging Topics in Open Government Data: A Bibliometric Mapping Approach
The purpose of this paper is to capture the emerging research topics in Open Government Data (OGD) through a bibliometric mapping approach. Previous OGD research has covered the evolution of the discipline with the application of bibliometric mapping tools. However, none of these studies have extended the bibliometric mapping approach for taxonomy building. Realizing this potential, we used a bibliometric tool to perform keyword analysis as a foundation for taxonomy construction. A set of keyword clusters was constructed, and qualitative analysis software was used for taxonomy creation. Emerging topics were identified in a taxonomy form. This study contributes towards the development of an OGD taxonomy. This study contributes to the procedural realignment of a past study by incorporating taxonomy building elements for taxonomy creation. These contributions are significant because there is insufficient taxonomy research in the OGD discipline. The taxonomy building procedures extended in this study are applicable to other fields
Citizen Engagement for Transparent and Accountable Policy Modelling
This work presents a platform for linked legislative data to engage
citizens in transparent and effective democracies. With a focus on
scaling up participatory approaches from local to national level, the
approach extends well established and open source tools and
technologies, to build mobile monitoring and analysis tools that
increase transparency of law-making and implementation to citizens. This
is achieved by combining open data and open services with user and
citizen generated content, in order to address citizen's needs in the
context of open government. Data and feeds from trusted sources are
interconnected with new and re-purposed data feeds generated by users
via the social web to form a meaningful, searchable, customizable,
re-usable and open data-focused personalised mobile public service
approach. The framework exploits the social aspects of open data, as
well as the training of users, citizens and public servants to be able
to understand and demand useful public open data, as well as facilitate
the opening of more data