Governance Models for Creating Public Value in Open Data Initiatives

Prof. Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar is Professor in Accounting at the University of Granada. He has authored numerous articles in international journals, among them we can highlight Public Money & Management, Government Information Quarterly, Public Administration and Development, Online Information Review, International Review of Administrative Sciences, American Review of Public Administration, ABACUS, Academia. Revista Latinoamericana de Administración, International Public Management Journal, Environmental Education Research, INNOVAR, Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Lex Localis. Journal of Local Self Government, CLAD. Reforma y Democracia, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Information Technology for Development, Electronic Commerce Research, Internet Research, Social Science Computer Review and Administration & Society. He has been also the author of several book chapters published in Routledge, Palgrave, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer, Nova Publishers and IGI Global, and is author of full-length books published by the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Spain. He is also editor of books in Springer, member of the Editorial Board of Government Information Quarterly and Associate Editor in other leading international journals.

Part I: Open Government Data Theory and Practice.- Chapter 1:Turning Open Government Data into Public Value: Testing the COPS Framework for the Co-Creation of OGD-Driven Public Services.- Chapter 2: Governing Open Spatial Data Infrastructures: The case of the United Kingdom.- Chapter 3: Online Fiscal Transparency of U.S. State Governments: An Analysis Using Public Value Framework.- Chapter 4: Towards the open government eco-system: connecting e-participation models and open government to analyze public policies.- Part II: Open Government Data and Smart Cities and Government.- Chapter 5: The Role of Open Data in Smart Cities: Exploring status in resource-constrained countries.- Chapter 6: Open Government Initiatives in Spanish Local Governments. An Examination of the State of the art.- Chapter 7: Empowering communities and improving public services through open data: South African Local Government Perspective.- Chapter 8: Blockchain for Open Data - Exploring Conceptual Underpinnings and Practice.- Index.