5 questions to Marijn Janssen #CeDEM15

During our CeDEM15 conference, Noella Edelmann asked Marijn Janssen from the Universities Toronto and Ottawa 5 questions around Open Government and E-Democracy.

5 questions to…
Marijn Janssen
Professor in ICT & Governance and head of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Delft University of Technology

1. In a nutshell: What are your thoughts in Open Government and E-Democracy?
2. What does “open” mean to you?
3. Could you name a good practise in E-Democracy or Open Government?
4. …and how about bad practises?
5. What are we going to talk about at CeDEM25?

More informations

• #CeDEM15 #keynote “Experience-based Design in Open Government” – Marijn Janssen
• ‘7 Questions’ to Keynote Speaker Marijn Janssen @CeDEM15
• CeDEM15

“Experience-based Design in Open Government” – Marijn Janssen at #CeDEM15 #Keynote #Video

To evaluate the impact of a design, experienced-based design is needed. Marijn Janssen presents several open data solutions with experience-based design – which also means understanding what users want, making it easy for them to navigate in solutions and to get the benefits.

#CeDEM15 Keynote
“Experience-based Design in Open Government”
Marijn Janssen
Professor in ICT & Governance and head of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Delft University of Technology

All #CeDEM15 Keynotes

• “Wazing the Information Super Highway: Linking the World’s Open Data Resources” – Alon Peled
• “International Challenges to Transformational eGovernment” – Shauneen Furlong
• “Enabling Open Government for All: A Roadmap for Public Libraries” – Theresa A. Pardo
• “Experience-based Design in Open Government” – Marijn Janssen

New Special Issue of Jedem out: “Open Data: growing up and getting specific”

We are very happy to announce that Vol. 6 No. 1 (2014) of JeDEM, the eJournal of E-Democracy and Open Government, has just been published. This time we have been working with guest editors Johann Hoechtl, Tim Davies, Marijn Janssen and Ina Schieferdecker on the topic “Open Data”, a field of studies that has, during the recent years, been “growing up and getting specific”.

Special Issue on Open Data including Invited Papers from the SharePSI project

This special issue contains a variety of research papers addressing this topic from different views and providing recent research results. The papers in this issue deepen the understanding of open data and show that the subject of open data is moving from the general to the study of specifics. The special issue also includes invited papers presented at the first public meeting of the SharePSI project. Share-PSI 2.0 is the European network for the exchange of experience and ideas around implementing open data policies in the public sector.

You can access the full issue for free here.

About the Guest Editors

#CeDEM13 day 1, morning, Track: Open Data, Transparency (..)

(Guerilla knitting by @anked still here from #CEDEM12 !! :-))

Here you’ll find minutes of the Open Data Session on the first day of CEDEM13. Presentations: 4. Room occupancy: full. Weather report: Lovely late morning sunshine.

Re-Designing Open Data 2.0

Alon Peled
At the moment, open data is moving forward. This contribution is dealing with a categorisation of criticism towars Open Data (named “Open Data 1.0 Criticism) like bad design or unrealistic goals, technology obsession etc. Beside the need of conceptualising this criticism, there is certainly a place for Open Data, but open does not neccessarily mean free. There could also be an intern arena created between agencies we have to be aware of.