Industrial Perspectives on Government Open Data Strategy Effectiveness

Abstract. The main objective of this paper is to impart new insights into the factors influencing the effectiveness of Open government data (OGD) strategy and build a predictive model for promoting the strategy effectiveness. Fifteen factors from four themes that shape the OGD strategy were prudently chosen from the literature and included in a survey distributed to the OGD users in the private sector in the US. The four themes are: data quality, technical standards, capacity building and measurements and maturity modeling. These themes are used to build a mixed model for the prediction of OGD strategy. Overall, the effect of the models from the individual four themes were found to have significant impact on the effectiveness of the OGD strategy. However, there are only five out of the fifteen factors from these four themes are found to be significant and used to develop a predictive five-factor model.