Adoption of Open Government Data in Local Government Context: Conceptual Model Development

Abstract

The significance of open data has benefited the public sector to leverage data in enhancing public service delivery, transparency, and accountability of organizational performance. Open data concept has also encouraged the public sector to release their data to the public without technical restriction and limitation. Nevertheless, there are lacks empirical studies that have examined the association between OGD and its adoption based on public sector perspective specifically in the local government context. Therefore, this paper aims to identify and analyze the influencing factors of OGD adoption by conducting Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and expert review with five (5) experts from a central agency, local authorities and public university. Sixteen (16) identified factors from the literature review and eleven (11) factors have been validated and individually ranked by the selected experts. A conceptual model of OGD adoption for local government which is based on Technology-Organisation-Environment, Diffusion of Innovation and Institutional Theory then proposed as the outcome of the study.