The Impact of Data Governance on OGD Publication-An Ethnographic Odyssey

ABSTRACT

Over the past decade, Open Government Data (OGD) strategies have become a continuing concern in administrative services. This is even truer than at any time. Given the current situation, data management, specifically consistent data publication, has been central to public institutions. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that data collected by public administrations could make valuable contributions. However, in Switzerland, the pandemic has highlighted the limitations of public organizations' capability to lead the publication of their data. Based on an ethnography and a literature review, this paper explores how data governance components impact OGD publication process and presents a model of OGD governance. For this purpose, we identify key data governance components necessary to OGD publication-structural, procedural, and relational-And illustrate how OGD challenges rarely arise from the publication of OGD or the open nature of data itself, but a lack of data governance. © 2022 ACM.