Creating Knowledge for Value Creation in Open Government Data Ecosystems

Open Government Data (OGD) has grown quickly in the last decade. However, the simple availability of OGD does not mean these data are used well in society. Social actors, both organizations and individuals, must to work collaboratively to create an Open Data Ecosystem (ODE) to manage and deliver OGD. OGD creates value only when the data are analyzed and reused to generate new knowledge. The creation of useful and applicable knowledge is not a simple and permanent thing, as it requires special attention from governments to make the data available and ODE actors to ensure the effective generation of knowledge. Limited research has studied the creation of knowledge in OGD ecosystems and more investigation is required into knowledge work within ODE. This research-in-progress aims to explore and answer the question of how is knowledge constructed in OGD ecosystems.