Open data: Empowering the empowered or effective data use for everyone?

By M. Gurstein. First Monday, 2011

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This paper takes a supportive but critical look at “open data” from the perspective of its possible impact on the poor and marginalized and concludes that there may be cause for concern in the absence of specific measures being taken to ensure that there are supports for ensuring a wide basis of opportunity for “effective data use”. The paper concludes by providing a seven element model for how effective data use can be achieved.

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Political Science and International Relations

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In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Marijn Janssen
2. Anneke Zuiderwijk
3. Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
4. Nripendra P. Rana

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1. Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
2. Marijn Janssen
3. Anneke Zuiderwijk
4. Ali Abdallah Alalwan
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Citations in the corpus

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