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Open government is a concept that generates a transparent, participatory, collaborative, and innovative government environment by providing existing data and knowledge to third parties and integrating external knowledge into political and administrative processes.
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Open government has become an important topic for governments all over the world (compare for the following Wirtz and Birkmeyer 2015; Wirtz and Daiser 2015, 2016; Wirtz et al. 2017). In particular, the benefits that are attributed to the concept, such as increased citizen trust, enhanced citizen-government communication, and improved internal efficiency, promote open government on a global scale. The growing importance of open government is underlined by the Open Government Partnership, which was established in 2011 and already counts 75 member countries (Open Government Partnership 2017).
In principle, open government refers to the...
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Wirtz, B.W., Daiser, P., Birkmeyer, S. (2017). Open Government. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3144-1
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