Driving Innovation through Big Open Linked Data (BOLD): Exploring Antecedents using Interpretive Structural Modelling

YesInnovation is vital to find new solutions to problems, increase quality, and improve profitability. Big open linked data (BOLD) is a fledgling and rapidly evolving field that creates new opportunities for innovation. However, none of the existing literature has yet considered the interrelationships between antecedents of innovation through BOLD. This research contributes to knowledge building through utilising interpretive structural modelling to organise nineteen factors linked to innovation using BOLD identified by experts in the field. The findings show that almost all the variables fall within the linkage cluster, thus having high driving and dependence powers, demonstrating the volatility of the process. It was also found that technical infrastructure, data quality, and external pressure form the fundamental foundations for innovation through BOLD. Deriving a framework to encourage and manage innovation through BOLD offers important theoretical and practical contributions

A comparative analysis of open government data in several countries: the practices and problems

Open Government Data (OGD) practice for researchers are intriguing to analyze as a decade has passed and showed many differences in application from each country. This difference may occur due to diversity in culture of openness, level of openness, and the level of trust or confidence of the country in opening data. Researchers presume that there is linearity in both, in meaning if the practice of government in the real world goes well then so is in cyberspace. Researchers also assume that OGD practices in developing countries in terms of success and failure are not equal to developed countries. It is interesting for researches to study the practice of OGD member of Association of Southeast Asian Nations that is developing countries with culture of openness, level of openness, and the level of trust or confidence of the country that is similar due to its homogeneity to ASEAN nations. This paper gives out description and study of the reality of OGD practices from ASEAN countries. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) through literature review is done to see the ratio of OGD practices among developing countries especially ASEAN countries

Open data directives and policies

In developing open data policies, organizations aim to stimulate and guide the publication and use of data and to gain advantages from this. Often open data policies are guided by a high-level directive, such as those of the United States (Obama, 2009b) and the European Commission (European Commission, 2013c). Open data policies are important, as their purpose is often to ensure the long-term availability of government information to create transparency and thereby to contribute to citizens’ rights to public access to government information. This right is considered a fundamental tenet of democracy (Allen, 1992). Moreover, open data policies have the potential to increase the participation, interaction, self-empowerment and social inclusion of open data users (e.g. citizens) and providers alike, stimulating economic growth and innovation and realizing many other advantages.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Information and Communication Technolog