#Opendata: digital-era governance thoroughbred or new public management trojan horse?

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01 September 2011The open data movement - in which advocates have called for governments to provide open, easy-to-use and largely free-of-charge access to public data - has generated significant momentum in a short period of time.

Justin Longo review the benefits - to both governments and the public - that many open data advocates agree are achievable from making digitized government data more open. Following this, he focuses on one of these purported benefits and proposes an alternative interpretation that identifies a potential downside to open data as currently framed: that an alternative reading of some elements of the open data advocacy coalition originate in the New Public Management reform agenda and seek to revive it.

Publication typeJournal Article
Publisher TypeAcademic research centre, APO Member
CoverageNorth America
Permanent URLhttp://apo.org.au/node/26175
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