Vol. 8 No. 2 (2012): Special Issue: Community Informatics and Open Government Data

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v8i2

Published: 2012-04-12

Editorial

The Promises and Perils of Open Government Data (OGD)

Tim G. Davies, Zainab Ashraf Bawa
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Two Worlds of Open Government Data: Getting the Lowdown on Public Toilets in Chennai and Other Matters

Michael Gurstein
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Research Articles

The Rhetoric of Transparency and its Reality: Transparent Territories, Opaque Power and Empowerment

Bhuvaneswari Raman
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“This is what modern deregulation looks like” : co-optation and contestation in the shaping of the UK’s Open Government Data Initiative

Jo Bates
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Data Template For District Economic Planning

Sharadini Rath
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Guidelines for Designing Deliberative Digital Habitats: Learning from e-Participation for Open Data Initiatives

Fiorella De Cindio
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Unintended Behavioural Consequences of Publishing Performance Data: Is More Always Better?

Simon McGinnes, Kasturi Muthu Elandy
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Open Government Data and the Right to Information: Opportunities and Obstacles

Katleen Janssen
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Notes from the field

Mapping the Tso Kar basin in Ladakh

Shashank Srinivasan
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Collecting data in Chennai City and the limits of openness

Nithya V Raman
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Apps For Amsterdam

Tom Demeyer
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Open Data - what the citizens really want

Wolfgang Both
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Trustworthy Records and Open Data

Anne Catherine Thurston
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Exploring the politics of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in the context of contemporary South Africa; how are open policies implemented in practice?

Asne Kvale Handlykken
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Points of View

Some Observations on the Practice of “Open Data” As Opposed to Its Promise

Roland J. Cole
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