{"title":"Enhancing Citizen Engagement with Open Government Data","authors":"M. Canares, Dave E. Marcial, Marijoe Narca","doi":"10.15353/joci.v12i2.3240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v12i2.3240","url":null,"abstract":"The research deals primarily with the research question – How can engagement of civil society organizations with open government data be enhanced? To answer the question, an action research was conducted in two provinces in the Philippines. The research showed that for capacity building programs to be effective, they should be relevant to the condition of the CSOs and the individual needs of learners; conducted with a long-term view of ensuring use and actual impact to the organization and the constituencies that they serve; and focused on higher-order results like changes in practices and behavior of organizations and individuals.","PeriodicalId":280460,"journal":{"name":"J. Community Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122554846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping an emergent Open Data eco-system","authors":"Michelle McLeod, Maurice McNaughton","doi":"10.15353/joci.v12i2.3220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v12i2.3220","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to explore a methodological approach to understand an emergent Open Data eco-system in developing countries and specifically tourism sector contexts. The conceptual and methodological bases using Actor Network Theory (ANT) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) are explored to understand their application to the Open Data phenomenon. Thirteen tourism industry officials in the public sector of five Caribbean countries were interviewed using a research instrument derived from the Open Data Research Network (ODRN) Common Assessment Framework for Open Data. The findings reveal an inter-connected emergent Open Data eco-system across five Caribbean countries.","PeriodicalId":280460,"journal":{"name":"J. Community Informatics","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115086540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Open Data and Evidence-based Socio-economic Policy Research in India: An overview","authors":"Aurelie Larquemin, J. Mukhopadhyay, S. Buteau","doi":"10.15353/joci.v12i2.3224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v12i2.3224","url":null,"abstract":"Public entities are one of the main producers of socio-economic data around the world. The Open Government Data (OGD) movement encourages these entities to make their data publicly available in order to improve transparency and accountability, which may lead to good governance. Thus, OGD can promote evidence-based public policy by supporting empirical research through making quality data available. Hence, in this paper we discuss the current status of OGD initiative in India, how its principles are considered and applied by the public authorities, and the feedback of the research community about OGD in India. Les institutions publiques sont parmi les principaux producteurs de donnees socio-economiques. Le mouvement « Donnees Gouvernementales ouvertes » les encourage et assiste parfois dans la mise a disposition de leurs donnees au public, pour ameliorer la transparence, ce qui peut conduire a une meilleure gouvernance. Ainsi, les donnees ouvertes gouvernementales peuvent conduire a de meilleures politiques publiques basees sur leurs resultats en soutenant la recherche par la publication de donnees de qualite. Ce document traite de la situation des donnees ouvertes en Inde, leur publication et usage par les institutions publiques et par la communaute de recherche. Las instituciones publicas son los principales productores de datos socio-economicos. El movimiento de \" datos gubernamentales abiertos\" alienta estas entidades de poner sus datos a disposicion del publico para mejorar la transparencia, y la gobernanza. Por lo tanto los datos gubernamentales abiertos pueden promover politicas publicas basadas en evidencia, mediante el apoyo a la investigacion empirica a traves de hacer datos de calidad disponibles. En este trabajo se discute lo que es la realidad de los datos gubernamentales abiertos en la India, como sus principios estan consideradas y aplicadas por las autoridades publicas y la comunidad de investigacion.","PeriodicalId":280460,"journal":{"name":"J. Community Informatics","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126931719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"User Centred Methods for Measuring the Value of Open Data","authors":"Mark Frank, J. Walker","doi":"10.15353/joci.v12i2.3221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v12i2.3221","url":null,"abstract":"A project to identify metrics for assessing the quality of open data based on the needs of small voluntary sector organisations in the UK and India. For the purposes of the project we assumed the purpose of open data metrics is to determine the value of a group of open datasets to a defined community of users. We adopted a much more user-centred approach than most open data research using small structured workshops to identify users’ key problems and then working from those problems to understand how open data can help address them and the key attributes of the data if it is to be successful. We then piloted different metrics that might be used to measure the presence of those attributes. The result was six metrics that we assessed for validity, reliability, discrimination, transferability and comparability. This user-centred approach to open data research highlighted some fundamental issues with expanding the use of open data from its enthusiast base.","PeriodicalId":280460,"journal":{"name":"J. Community Informatics","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126276871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. V. Schalkwyk, M. Canares, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, A. Andrason
{"title":"Open Data Intermediaries in Developing Countries","authors":"F. V. Schalkwyk, M. Canares, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, A. Andrason","doi":"10.15353/joci.v12i2.3219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v12i2.3219","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers a more socially nuanced approach to open data intermediaries using the theoretical framework of Bourdieu’s social model, particularly his species of capital. Secondary data on intermediaries from Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Developing Countries research was analysed according to a working definition of an open data intermediary presented in this paper, and with a focus on how intermediaries are able to linking agents in an open data supply chain, including to grassroots communities. The study found that open data supply chains may comprise multiple intermediaries and that multiple forms of capital may be required to connect the supply and use of open data. The effectiveness of intermediaries can be attributed to their proximity to data suppliers or users, and proximity can be expressed as a function of the type of capital that an intermediary possesses. However, because no single intermediary necessarily has all the capital available to link effectively to all sources of power in a field, multiple intermediaries with complementary configurations of capital are more likely to connect between power nexuses. This study concludes that consideration needs to be given to the presence of multiple intermediaries in an open data ecosystem, each of whom may possess different forms of capital to enable the use of open data.","PeriodicalId":280460,"journal":{"name":"J. Community Informatics","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115892594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Repurposing Post Offices as Community Innovation Hubs: Digital Inclusion, Equity and De-concentration","authors":"M. Gurstein","doi":"10.15353/joci.v12i1.3235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v12i1.3235","url":null,"abstract":"This will be my last formal “editorial” as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Community Informatics. As of this issue I am passing the torch along to my long-time friends and colleagues (and former and current JoCI Associate Editors) Eduardo Villanueva-Mansilla, Associate Professor at the Communications Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, who will be joined as coEditor (after Jan. 1,2017) by Dr. Susan O’Donnell, Sociology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada.","PeriodicalId":280460,"journal":{"name":"J. Community Informatics","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129272110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mediated communication and mediated communities in the information age","authors":"Gábor Szécsi","doi":"10.15353/joci.v12i1.3217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v12i1.3217","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the electronically mediated communication contributes to the construction of new, mediated forms of communities which are based on the synthesis of virtual and physical communities. The appearance of these new forms of communities leads to a new conceptualization of the relation between self and community. The aim of this article, on the one hand, is to show that with the mediatization of communities, our concept of community becomes more comples. On the other hand, in this essay we consider the assumption that the medium of the mediatization and new conceptualization of community is a specific, pictorial language of electronically mediated communication.","PeriodicalId":280460,"journal":{"name":"J. Community Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129796174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooperating community connections: A changing political reality","authors":"Garth Graham","doi":"10.15353/joci.v12i1.3214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v12i1.3214","url":null,"abstract":"Community Informatics has declared that the global is a federation of locals. James Quilligan has written an essay to the effect that applying such a definition of global requires a world institution of democratic governance. Some members of the community of community informatics researchers have come to a similar conclusion. This essay outlines an alternative interpretation based on complex adaptive systems theory, and with consequent results for a different definition of the individual, the community and their interdependence. It asks the question – where does the predominance of opinion in community informatics about the changing nature of governance and community reside?","PeriodicalId":280460,"journal":{"name":"J. Community Informatics","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132816582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Community Mediation through ICTs: Seeking to Bridge Digital and Community Divides","authors":"A. Bailey, Ojelanki K. Ngwenyama","doi":"10.15353/joci.v12i1.3241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v12i1.3241","url":null,"abstract":"Information and communication technologies are being utilized to support social and economic development in marginalized communities in developing countries. In this paper, we explore an emerging role for telecentres - that of community mediation. Our research is based on empirical observations through a field study, and an analysis of local newspaper articles. We investigate ways in which these community mediation strategies through telecentres may support social inclusion and development of social capital. The evolving role of telecentres in the area of peace-making suggests that the factors explored in this study will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in telecentre implementations.","PeriodicalId":280460,"journal":{"name":"J. Community Informatics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128958960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Suburban Communications Network: Recurrence of Use, Growth of Participation, and the Challenges of Sustainability","authors":"F. Redhead, M. Brereton","doi":"10.15353/joci.v12i2.3226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v12i2.3226","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents findings from a longitudinal research project exploring the use of a local digital community noticeboard and the mechanisms that have worked to grow and sustain community participation in this communications network. The lessons learnt from this research include the importance of providing clear indication to community members that communications are being seen by the community, maintaining visibility of high interest community- building communications, and involving community organisers. In discussion of our research, we suggest that future design supports visibility of long-term communications, and provides an accessible place to make communications public (with less emphasis on linking individual identities).","PeriodicalId":280460,"journal":{"name":"J. Community Informatics","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129998958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}