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Item City of Austin’s data culture still under construction(2015-05) Boria Gonzalez, Laura Marina; McDonald, Christian; Chen, GinaMost open government initiatives across the United States focus on transparency, where local governments publish information online about its operations. By giving people access to the data used to run government operations, others can use that data to solve city problems or create additional services, like the congressional tracking website GovTrack. This project is an attempt to understand the issues surrounding the City of Austin’s initiative to open up its data. The city joined the open data movement with the selection and launch of their Socrata portal in 2011. But the local government didn’t just come up with the idea of launching an open data portal by itself. Austin’s open government data movement has been largely led by grassroots efforts.Item Civic engagement analysis of select open data portals(2015-05) Hadjigeorge, Nicholas George; Flamm, Kenneth, 1951-; Greenberg, Sherri RGovernments and non-profit institutions increasingly are publishing data on the Internet in databases known as open data portals. The data is freely available, accessible, and used by citizens and application developers. However, there is little research about the relationship between open data portal characteristics and their effect on civic engagement. In addition to an overview of open data portals, user behavior, and civic applications, this report analyzes portal-level panel data across 36 months and 14 portals to estimate the effects of portal characteristics on civic engagement. Results show that portals with frequently updated data experience more civic engagement. These empirical findings validate the open data principle of timeliness, and are important for policy- makers designing open data policies to maximize the potential for users to add value to open data.Item Open aid demand : a case study(2015-05) Steffen, Kelly Marie; Weaver, Catherine, 1971-; Doggett, JohnThis professional report explores donor and government use of open aid information. Current open aid and transparency literature focuses on the supply of open aid information, but neglects exploring stakeholders' ability and willingness to use the data. This report uses the case study methodology and finds little evidence of donor use of open aid data in Uganda due to technical, political and data barriers. It does find robust government use in Nepal. The report hopes to guide others as they continue to explore open aid data impact among various stakeholders.