D5.1 Models of allocating roles, tasks and responsibilities in open data ecosystems

This Task 5.1 is focussed on the potential impact of different forms of collaborations (including public-private partnerships) to sustainably arrange the distribution of roles, tasks and resources in open data ecosystems. Building on previous ODECO research on governance of open data ecosystems and drawing from a participative workshop conducted during ODECO Training Week 5 held at Samos, Greece, this report summarises the distribution of roles, tasks and resources in four open data case-studies – the Breakthrough Open Data Project, beamm.brussels, CityLAB Berlin trees project, and Femicides in Europe. Each case-study serve as an illustrative model of collaboration between a public administration and one or more open data actor group. By applying the Institutional Analysis and Design Framework (a preferred tool for policy analysis) to each case-study, this report summarises a set of institutional factors that could be relevant for sustaining and replicating models of collaboration in other open data ecosystems. These institutional factors are:
• There should be continued focus on publication of open government datasets by public administration.
• Coordinating functions should be discharged by public administrations to bring together open data providers and open data users to openly discuss their needs. In some cases, such coordinating functions can be discharged by other non-governmental stakeholders as well.
• Partnerships should be formed between public administrations / international organisations and other civic open data user groups to co-develop open data initiatives, which can prompt contributions from other actors.
• Shared open infrastructures for publishing and use of data and information are important, including for non-governmental data holders.
• A strong interorganisational culture oriented towards effecting social and economic impact of open data in a participative manner is also useful.