ABSTRACT
Open government is not a new paradigm; it originated in the Freedom of Information movement in the 1950s. However, its practices have been recently reengineered to extend its open boundary related to new developments of e-governance and information technology (IT). After the Obama administration’s proactive actions to open government, its direction prioritizes a collaborative partnership between governments and citizens through massive open data, where the new partnership is expected to solve complex government problems. The commitment to open data policies has been high, so diverse open data have become publicly available to make government more open and transparent. Although releasing data in any form is better than releasing no data at all, open government data still tend to be heavily generated by the government-centric perspective (Janssen, Charalabidis, & Zuiderwijk, 2012).
