Between International Practice and Academia: Review and integration of Open Government Data Benchmarks

Abstract

Since the Obama administration encouraged open government data (ODG) in 2008, the OGD movement has been prevailed in the whole world. Efforts for evaluating OGD in global or regional scale also show progress throughout the years. Along the way, academia tried to grasp this trend by comparing these benchmarking efforts, whether by international organizations, private companies or regional authorities. This research aims to compare the review articles of international OGD benchmarks, reviews and analyze these benchmarks, and then review the benchmarking framework created by academia in the recent year and how these benchmark efforts from academia can integrate into international benchmarks. After reviewing six review articles about international OGD benchmarks, this research selects five repeated, and most frequently reviewed benchmarks and analyzes the methodology, level of analysis and indices. Then, a systematic literature review of recent OGD benchmark in academia were performed, the result shows that data quality and use/usage are the most frequent topics in academia, and there is a need for creating benchmarking efforts on OGD impacts, especially on social and economic. Finally, several recommendations about how academia can integrate benchmarks into practice are made. This research contributes to OGD research in three ways: (1) It stands on giants’ should, reviews and compares the review by academia for the OGD benchmark efforts. (2) It reveals the most frequent reviewed benchmarks by comparing these reviews of benchmark and shows the recommendation by these reviews. (3) It compares and reveals the current benchmarks conducted by academia, and how these research can be integrated by benchmarks by international organizations.