Open data from the Brazilian government: Understanding the perspectives of data suppliers and developers of applications to the citizens
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- Subject Areas
- Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing, Software Engineering
- Keywords
- Open Government Data, Data Providers, Brazilian Open Data, Developers, Government Transparency, Open Data Ecosystems, Brazilian Open Data.
- Copyright
- © 2018 Araújo et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2018. Open data from the Brazilian government: Understanding the perspectives of data suppliers and developers of applications to the citizens. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27073v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27073v1
Abstract
Open Government Data (OGD) is seen as a way to promote transparency, as well as to provide information to the population by opening data related to various government sectors and processes. By using applications developed with this type of data, citizens gain knowledge about a certain public sphere; governments, in turn, are able to promote transparency and improvements through the interaction with citizens who use such applications. To create these applications, developers need to extract, process and analyze OGD available by data suppliers. This research was conducted in two phases: the first sought to investigate the perspective of developers who use Brazilian OGD; in the second phase, we investigated the perspectives of data suppliers. Through semi-structured interviews with twenty-four developers and data suppliers, this work reports what motivates them to work with OGD, as well as the barriers they face in this process. Our findings indicate that both participants seek to promote transparency for the population, but they run up against poor data quality, cultural barriers, among other issues. We present and qualitatively characterize these issues, providing recommendations for the improvement of the Brazilian OGD ecosystem.
Author Comment
This work is a summary of my master's dissertation that can be found in its entirety through the following link (in portuguese br): https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/23528.
Supplemental Information
New view of the OGD ecosystem in Brazil
According to the findings, it is possible to establish a new vision, where governors and data suppliers can be seen the distinct entities in the ecosystem
