TY - JOUR AU - van Loenen, Bastiaan AU - Zuiderwijk, Anneke AU - Vancauwenberghe, Glenn AU - Lopez-Pellicer, Francisco J. AU - Mulder, Ingrid AU - Alexopoulos, Charalampos AU - Magnussen, Rikke AU - Saddiqa, Mubashrah AU - Dulong de Rosnay, Melanie AU - Crompvoets, Joep AU - Polini, Andrea AU - Re, Barbara AU - Casiano Flores, Cesar PY - 2021/12/22 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Towards value-creating and sustainable open data ecosystems: A comparative case study and a research agenda JF - JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government JA - JeDEM VL - 13 IS - 2 SE - Special Issue: Research Papers DO - 10.29379/jedem.v13i2.644 UR - https://jedem.org/index.php/jedem/article/view/644 SP - 1-27 AB - <p>Current open data systems lag behind in their promised value creation and sustainability. The objective of the current study is twofold: 1) to investigate whether existing open data systems meet the requirements of open data ecosystems, and 2) to develop a research agenda that discusses the gaps between current open data systems on the one hand and participatory, value-creating, sustainable open data ecosystems on the other hand. The literature reveals that the main characteristics of value-creating, sustainable open data ecosystems are user-drivenness, inclusiveness, circularity, and skill-based. Our comparative case study of five open data systems in various application domains and countries highlighted that none of these systems are real open data ecosystems: they often do not balance open data supply and demand, exclude specific user groups and domains, are linear, and lack skill-training. We elaborate on a research agenda that discusses how research should address the challenge of making open data ecosystems more value-generating and sustainable.</p> ER -