Open Data and the Core Competences of Government: Lessons from Flanders, Belgium

8 Pages Posted: 18 Jul 2019

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Nils Walravens

imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Mathias Van Compernolle

Ghent University - imec MICT

Lieven De Marez

Ghent University

Pieter Ballon

iMinds-SMIT, VUB

Pieter Colpaert

Ghent University - iMinds

Date Written: July 18, 2019

Abstract

As part of the rhetoric surrounding the Smart City concept, cities are increasingly facing challenges related to data (management, governance, processing, storage, publishing etc.). The Smart Flanders program was initiated by the Flemish Government (Belgium) at the start of 2017 to research and support cities in this field. The goal of the program is to support the 13 so-called center cities in the Region (by and large the biggest cities) and a representation of the Flemish Community in the Brussels Region with defining and implementing a common open data policy. As part of the program, a “maturity check” was performed, evaluating the cities on a number of quantitative and qualitative parameters. This exercise laid to bare a number of challenges in the field of open data and led to a checklist that cities can employ to begin tackling them.

Keywords: open data, smart cities, e-government

Suggested Citation

Walravens, Nils and Compernolle, Mathias Van and De Marez, Lieven and Ballon, Pieter and Colpaert, Pieter, Open Data and the Core Competences of Government: Lessons from Flanders, Belgium (July 18, 2019). TPRC47: The 47th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy 2019, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3422151 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3422151

Nils Walravens (Contact Author)

imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel ( email )

Mathias Van Compernolle

Ghent University - imec MICT

Ghent
Belgium

Lieven De Marez

Ghent University ( email )

Coupure Links 653
Ghent, 9000
Belgium

Pieter Ballon

iMinds-SMIT, VUB ( email )

Pleinlaan 9
Brussels, Brabant 1050
Belgium

Pieter Colpaert

Ghent University - iMinds

Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat
Gent
Belgium

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