意外后果
透明度(行为)
打开数据
开放的政府
问责
复杂适应系统
政府(语言学)
数据科学
危害
公共关系
现象
社会化媒体
社会学
政治学
知识管理
计算机科学
认识论
万维网
计算机安全
人工智能
法学
哲学
语言学
作者
Olivera Marjanovic,Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2020.100323
摘要
In this paper we focus on the emerging phenomenon of Open Government Data Platforms (OGDPs), in particular those that provide open performance data to general public. Governments world-wide continue to implement these platforms, aiming to increase transparency and accountability. However, in spite of their positive intentions, ODGPs that provide performance data (e.g. about schools or hospitals) are reported to create serious harmful social effects. While the related literature has reported numerous cases of these unintended effects, the questions regarding why and how they emerge remain open. This is not surprising, given the complexity and dynamics of processes instigated through the use of ODGPs by a very large number of known and unknowable actors. Through a diffractive reading of complexity theories, in particular Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) and sociomateriality, in this paper we propose a Complex Adaptive Sociomaterial Systems (CASS) theorization of OGDPs. Drawing from a case of OGDP in Australia called My School, which provides open performance data for more than 10.000 schools, we demonstrate how the proposed theoretical lens of CASS enables us to reveal and explain why and how these platforms perform unintended, yet serious social harm. Given that OGDPs are rapidly emerging around the world, our research opens a pathway for a research-informed public discourse about their harmful effects and responsibilities of different stakeholders. • Open Government Data Platforms (OGDPs) are rapidly adopted by governments around the world • OGDPs providing open performance data are creating unintended society-wide harmful effects • The paper proposes a novel theorization of OGDPs as Complex Adaptive Sociomaterial Systems (CASS), which makes it possible to explain how and why these platforms create unintended harmful effects • The CASS theorisation makes it possible to explain how and why OGDPs create unintended harmful effects • The CASS theorisation is illustrated by a real-life example of OGDP from the education sector
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