Open Government Data Usage Overview: A Systematic Literature Mapping

Open Government Data (OGD) is a practice that has become widespread and has brought countless benefits to both government and citizens. The Open Government Partnership is a group formed by over 60 countries, all countries sharing the same purpose: A plan to define open data by following a list of requirements. However, the number of open datasets is still low and does not have the minimum level of quality and technique. The Open Data initiative still faces a large number of challenges to become reality. The goal of this study is to map and characterize the main barriers prevent OGD, exposing the mitigation forms found in literature papers, as well as identifying which sectors of public administration have a higher incidence of publication on OGD. In order this, it was realized a Systematic Literature Mapping (SLM), resulting in 85 relevant papers able to response 3 Research Questions. The SLM identified 6 main barriers: Public Engagement; Culture; Economic; Political and Technical, where it is highlighted Education, Health and Finances as public sector areas with Open Data major publication incidence. The Open Government Directive, a guidelines series, published in 2009 by Ex-President of United States of America, Barack Obama is the factor most quoted in literature as barrier mitigation way in OGD implementation.