Open government data platforms – A complex adaptive sociomaterial systems perspective

IF 5.7 2区 管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Information and Organization Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2020.100323
Olivera Marjanovic , Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic
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In this paper we focus on the emerging phenomenon of Open Government Data Platforms (OGDPs), in particular those that provide open performance data to general public. Governments world-wide continue to implement these platforms, aiming to increase transparency and accountability. However, in spite of their positive intentions, ODGPs that provide performance data (e.g. about schools or hospitals) are reported to create serious harmful social effects. While the related literature has reported numerous cases of these unintended effects, the questions regarding why and how they emerge remain open. This is not surprising, given the complexity and dynamics of processes instigated through the use of ODGPs by a very large number of known and unknowable actors. Through a diffractive reading of complexity theories, in particular Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) and sociomateriality, in this paper we propose a Complex Adaptive Sociomaterial Systems (CASS) theorization of OGDPs. Drawing from a case of OGDP in Australia called My School, which provides open performance data for more than 10.000 schools, we demonstrate how the proposed theoretical lens of CASS enables us to reveal and explain why and how these platforms perform unintended, yet serious social harm. Given that OGDPs are rapidly emerging around the world, our research opens a pathway for a research-informed public discourse about their harmful effects and responsibilities of different stakeholders.

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开放政府数据平台——复杂自适应社会材料系统视角
在本文中,我们将重点关注开放政府数据平台(ogdp)的新兴现象,特别是那些向公众提供开放绩效数据的平台。世界各国政府继续实施这些平台,旨在提高透明度和问责制。然而,尽管其意图是积极的,但据报告,提供业绩数据(例如关于学校或医院的数据)的官方发展定位系统造成了严重的有害社会影响。虽然相关文献已经报道了许多这些意想不到的影响的案例,但关于它们为什么以及如何出现的问题仍然是开放的。考虑到大量已知和不可知的参与者通过使用odgp所引发的过程的复杂性和动态性,这并不奇怪。通过对复杂性理论的衍射解读,特别是复杂适应系统(CAS)和社会物质性,我们提出了一个复杂适应社会物质系统(CASS)理论的ogdp。我们以澳大利亚OGDP项目“我的学校”(My School)为例,展示了中国社会科学院提出的理论视角如何使我们能够揭示和解释这些平台为何以及如何产生意想不到的严重社会危害。鉴于ogdp在世界各地迅速出现,我们的研究为关于其有害影响和不同利益相关者的责任的研究知情的公共话语开辟了一条途径。
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期刊介绍: Advances in information and communication technologies are associated with a wide and increasing range of social consequences, which are experienced by individuals, work groups, organizations, interorganizational networks, and societies at large. Information technologies are implicated in all industries and in public as well as private enterprises. Understanding the relationships between information technologies and social organization is an increasingly important and urgent social and scholarly concern in many disciplinary fields.Information and Organization seeks to publish original scholarly articles on the relationships between information technologies and social organization. It seeks a scholarly understanding that is based on empirical research and relevant theory.
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