A Model to Guide the Open Government Data Implementation in Public Agencies

Mauricio Solar (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria-UTFSM, Chile)

Fernando Daniels (Inter-American Organization for Higher Education, OUI-IOHE, Canada)

Roberto López (The Network of e-Government Leaders of Latin America and the Caribbean, RED GEALC, Uruguay)

Luis Meijueiro (Fundacion CTIC, Spain)

Abstract: This paper presents a model to diagnose maturity and capabilities of Public Agencies (PAs) in pursuing the open data principles and practices. The open data maturity model, called OD-MM, was piloted in ten PAs from three Latin American countries, validating in this way the web tool that operationalizes the model. This web tool is a valuable diagnostic tool for PA's, since it shows all weaknesses and provides the instrument (a roadmap) to progress in the implementation of open data. We also propose a guide to implement open data in PAs. This guide is the result of the OD-MM application in Latin American PAs. The guide is simple and orients decision makers so that PAs following the actions of the guide can see their improved capacities when facing a diagnosis of their institutional maturity in the implementation of open data.

Keywords: maturity model, open data, open government data, roadmap

Categories: D.2.8, D.2.9, J.7, K.4.1, K.4.3, K.5.2