Is altruism dead? A critical case study on the paradigm shift in Open Government Data

Inf. Polity Pub Date : 2022-04-11 DOI:10.3233/ip-220048
Tobias Mettler, Gianluca Miscione
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The broad and continued success of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) has helped to spread its ideology to many other domains, including Open Government Data (OGD), which has recently gained prominence due to its potential for feeding algorithms. Despite the anti-market and anti-corporation values around free sharing, citizen participation, and unrestricted transparency propagated in particular by a highly idealized academic discourse on OGD, our case study of the development of Switzerland’s national OGD portal suggests that the altruistic and philanthropic notion that is often associated with OGD needs to be reconsidered. We show that low use, on one side, and the practical necessity towards cost-recovery behaviors, on the other side, have led to a compromise of the altruistic ideological beginnings of OGD and paved the way for a pragmatic shift towards a more utilitarian, partly even protectionist, view on liberating and sharing data.
利他主义死了吗?开放政府数据模式转变的关键案例研究
自由/自由和开源软件(FLOSS)的广泛和持续的成功帮助将其思想传播到许多其他领域,包括开放政府数据(OGD),它最近因其提供算法的潜力而获得突出地位。尽管围绕免费共享、公民参与和无限制透明度的反市场和反公司价值观,特别是通过高度理想化的OGD学术论述进行宣传,但我们对瑞士国家OGD门户网站发展的案例研究表明,通常与OGD相关的利他主义和慈善概念需要重新考虑。我们表明,一方面,低使用率,另一方面,对成本回收行为的实际必要性,导致了OGD的利他主义意识形态的妥协,并为在释放和共享数据方面向更功利主义,甚至部分保护主义的观点转变铺平了道路。
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