Technology-supported effective transparency around open data: a dialogue game analysis

Abstract

Although open data of Public Administrations may enable nominal transparency for citizens (opening-up of data sets), achieving effective transparency requires meaning-making in dialogue. We describe an approach to analysing such dialogues based on Dialogue Game theory, applied to interaction corpora produced using SPOD (Social Platform for Open Data) developed within the ROUTE-TO-PA project. Users were able to engage in meaning-making dialogue games on/around open data visualisations.