Public Sector Data as a Contested Commodity

2014 ◽  
pp. 105-124
Author(s):  
Alon Peled
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Sector Data

Public Sector Data for Academic Research: The Case of the UAE

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-46
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Abu Samra ◽  
Toufic Mezher ◽  
Elie Azar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Sector Data

scholarly journals The use of public sector data analytics in the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Fleur van Veenstra ◽  
Francisca Grommé ◽  
Somayeh Djafari
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sector Data

Purpose Public sector data analytics concerns the process of retrieving data, data analysis, publication of the results as well as re-using the data by government organizations to improve their operations and enhance public policy. This paper aims to explore the use of public sector data analytics in the Netherlands and the opportunities and challenges of this use. Design/methodology/approach This paper finds 74 applications of public sector data analytics, identified by a Web search and consultation with policymakers. The applications are categorized by application type, organization(s) involved and application domain, and illustrative examples are used to elaborate opportunities and challenges. Findings Public sector data analytics is most frequently used for inspection and enforcement of social services and for criminal investigation. Even though its usage is often experimental, it raises concerns for scope creep, repeated targeting of the same (group of) individuals, personal data use by third parties and the transparency of governmental processes. Research limitations/implications Drawing on desk research, it was not always possible to identify which type of data or which technology was used in the applications that were found. Furthermore, the case studies are illustrative rather than providing an in-depth overview of opportunities and challenges of the use of data analytics in government. Originality/value Most studies either perform a literature overview or present a single case study; this paper presents a more comprehensive overview of how a public sector uses data analytics.

Towards a Sociology of Institutional Transparency: Openness, Deception and the Problem of Public Trust

Sociology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 416-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Moore
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
The State ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Online Access ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Sector Data

Transparency has become the watchword of 21st-century liberal democracies. It refers to a project of opening up the state by providing online access to public sector data. This article puts forward a sociological critique of the transparency agenda and the purported relationship between institutional openness and public trust. Drawing upon Simmel’s work, the article argues that open government initiatives routinely prize visibility over intelligibility and ignore the communicative basis of trust. The result is a non-reciprocal form of openness that obscures more than it reveals. In making this point the article suggests that transparency embodies the ethos of a now-discredited mode of what Ezrahi calls ‘instrumental politics’, reliant on the idea that the state constitutes a ‘domain of plain public facts’. The article examines how alternative mechanisms for achieving government openness might better respond to the distinctive needs of citizens living in late modern societies.

Bulgarian public sector data breach reveals EU trend

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Data Breach ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Content Type ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
High Profile ◽  
General Data ◽  
Sector Data

Subject Public sector and GDPR. Significance Public attention before and since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May 2018 has largely focused on high-profile corporate data breaches and fines, such as recently at British Airways and the hotel chain Marriott. However, the data breach at the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency last month put public sector agencies, and their obligations under GDPR, under the spotlight. Impacts The upsurge in data breach notifications will stabilise as GDPR implementation progresses. Local public sector agencies are beginning to take data privacy and security seriously. Outsourcing of public services to private contractors is complicating cybersecurity.

scholarly journals Towards a Public Sector Data Culture: Data as an Individual and Communal Resource in Progressing Democracy

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Petter Falk
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Data Culture ◽  
Sector Data ◽  
Sound Data

AbstractAn increased use of data has swept through many policy areas and shaped procedural and substantive policy instruments. Hence, citizens and governments, as both producers and consumers of data, become intertwined in even more complex ways. But the inherent logic of data-driven services and systems sometimes challenges the prerequisites and ideals of liberal democracy. Though a democratically sound data-practice and data-culture is crucial for ensuring a democratic usage of citizens data, discourse tends to overlook these aspects. Drawing on insights from the project Democracy Data, this chapter explores the opportunities and obstacles for establishing democratically oriented public sector data cultures.

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