Chirchir, Emmy: How open is open government data in developing countries? : An evaluation of open government data in Kenya using a case study of open government health data. 2017
Inhalt
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- Background to the study and context
- Definition of terms
- Open Government
- Open Data
- Open Government + Open Data = Open Government Data?
- What is the ‘open’ in OGD?
- Research Problem
- Research Questions
- RQ 1. What is the structure of OGD in Kenya and to what extent does it support OGD in Kenya?
- RQ 2. To what extent has the use of OGD influenced participation in government decision or policy-making using the health sector in Kenya as a case study?
- Research purpose
- Research objective
- Philosophical and methodological approach
- Organisation of the dissertation
- 2. LITERATURE REVIEW
- OGD development on a global scale
- OGD in developing countries
- OGD’s potential value for developing countries
- 3. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATION
- Opening up government data – an ecosystem understanding
- Borrowing a biology metaphor
- An ecosystem framework
- Figure 2: The OGD Ecosystem
- Core ecosystem
- Periphery ecosystem
- Institutional and organizational factors
- Government as a ‘prosumer’ and Government as a platform
- Policy and legal frameworks
- Socio-economic factors
- Exogenous Factors
- 4. THEORETICAL FOUNDATION
- Participation as the cornerstone of democracy
- Participation Models
- New forms of Participation
- Participation Theory as a Framework for Understanding OGD
- Factors affecting participation
- Political will and Government responsiveness
- Socio-economic Status and Participation
- Capacity, Skills and Motivation to Participate
- Digital gaps
- OGD - Towards a more participatory government?
- Spheres of Participation
- 5. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY
- Introduction
- Research Design
- The Case of Health Sector Data
- Researchers role
- Methods
- Data collection
- Data collection – Phase One
- Documents
- Web analytics
- Survey
- Exploratory interviews
- Data collection - Phase Two
- Semi-structured interviews
- Data analysis
- Methodological assumptions and weaknesses
- 6. FINDINGS
- Kenya’s geographical context
- Phase Two Findings
- Conceptualizing and understanding of OGD
- Use: Availability
- Influence of OGD use in participation
- 7. DISCUSSION
- How open is OGD in Kenya in the heath sector?
- The Concept of OGD in Kenya
- The context of OGD in Kenya
- Imbalanced and unsustainable OGD ecosystem
- Technology oriented ecosystem
- Institutional weakness
- Weak policy and legal frameworks
- Use of OGD in Kenya
- 8. CONCLUSION
- 9. REFERENCES
- APPENDICES