Open Data Governance and Its Actors

What is it about?

​This book combines theoretical and practical knowledge about key actors and driving forces that help to initiate and advance open data governance. Using Finland and Sweden as case studies, it sheds light on the roles of key actors in the open data movement, enabling researchers to understand the key operational elements of data-driven governance. Examining the most salient manifestations of related networking activities, the motivations of stakeholders, and the political and socioeconomic readiness of the public, private and civic sectors to advance such policies, it will appeal to e-government experts, policymakers and political scientists, as well as academics and students of public administration, public policy, and open data governance.

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Why is it important?

The main idea of the book is to match both theoretical and practical knowledge about key actors and driving forces that help to initiate and advance such an emerging political and socioeconomic phenomenon as open data governance, resorting to the contexts of two Nordic nations, namely, Finland and Sweden. For the last decade these two countries have been actively pioneering and advocating the concept of open data as one of key points of reference to promote transparent and collaborative government in the context of an egalitarian society built on principles of social democracy, political representation and social justice among the majority of its members. In this regard, the results of the research presented in this work aim to shed light on the roles of key actors in the open data movement, which would help researchers to understand the key operational elements of data-driven governance by studying the most salient manifestations of related networking activities, motivations of stakeholders as well as political and socioeconomic readiness of public, private and civic sectors to advance such policies in their natural settings.

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