Johan Wolswinkel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4154685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johan Wolswinkel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolswinkel |
| SIGNATURE | WOLSWINKEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8404-5027 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 10 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond the Portal: Increasing Citizen Understanding of OGD with Storytelling
The open government data (OGD) movement claims to contribute to transparency and increased citizen understanding of government action. However, the literature so far shows these goals are not being reached, as ‘common’ (non-expert) citizens fail to access and understand OGD. This research makes an empirical contribution to this debate through a design experiment in the form of a field lab with a governmental agency, data visualization experts, an…
Is everything under control? An experimental study on how control over data influences trust in and support for major governmental data exchange projects
The steep rise in the exchange of (citizen) data through government-wide platforms has triggered a demand for better privacy safeguards. One approach to privacy is to give citizens control over the exchange of personal data, hoping to reinforce trust in and support for data-driven governance. However, it remains unclear whether more control fulfils its promise of more support and higher trust. Using an online survey experiment, we study how 1) te…
Seeing data like a state: A case of Open Government Data in India’s livelihoods program
Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives promise to make governments transparent, enabling citizens to participate actively in governance. Yet, empirical evidence suggests that OGD doesn’t have the democratic impact that its advocates expect. Based on a 14-month ethnography of India’s livelihood program, we argue that the assumptions underlying the design of OGD initiatives vary with citizens’ social context. We show how OGD initiatives are state-c…
Is altruism dead? A critical case study on the paradigm shift in Open Government Data
The broad and continued success of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) has helped to spread its ideology to many other domains, including Open Government Data (OGD), which has recently gained prominence due to its potential for feeding algorithms. Despite the anti-market and anti-corporation values around free sharing, citizen participation, and unrestricted transparency propagated in particular by a highly idealized academic discourse on…
Tkacz, Nathaniel (2022) Being with data: The dashboarding of everyday life, Polity Press
Being with data: The dashboarding of everyday life" explores how people encounter and experience data.The book does so by zooming in on one particular format of data that has invaded our everyday life: the dashboard.Issues related to the datafication and dashboarding of everyday life have been highlighted over the last decade, which emphasizes the timeliness and importance of this book.Especially for the public sector (because of open government …
The Power of Partnership in Open Government: Reconsidering Multistakeholder Governance Reform
What if? A short commentary on the philosophical bedrock of open government discourse
For Jeremy Bentham -the eighteenth-century philosopher, jurist, and reformer -there are three types of citizens. 1First, there is the class of what can be called smart or expert citizens.Expert citizens have the capacity, willingness, and time to reflect on their being-in-the-world.They know, or are at least very busy in acquiring knowledge of, their relationship with the authorities that rule the environment in which they were thrown and reflect…
Open government data from a legal perspective: An AI-driven systematic literature review
While the applicable legal framework is often identified as one of the key factors in the success or failure of open government data (OGD), the concrete impact of ‘OGD law’ on actual practices of OGD is often overlooked or hardly addressed in-depth. This contribution therefore aims to disentangle this legal impact based on an AI-driven systematic literature review combining legal and public administration (PA) publications. First, the review show…
Citizen requests and the price of public information: An experimental test
Pricing of public goods is particularly challenging for public services that are strongly rights-based in character. Such is the case of freedom of information requesting procedures. Costs have implications for how citizens will treat requesting procedures as well as how their views and attitudes towards procedures will be affected. This study examines these causes and consequences using an online experiment with 925 citizens. The findings show t…
Rethinking Open Government Data for Citizen Participation. An Introduction to a Special Issue
Citizen participation has always been considered one of the key pillars of open government: providing citizens with government information should enable them to participate effectively in decision-making or other government procedures. Despite this obvious connection between open government data (OGD) and citizen participation in theory, their relationship turns out to be much more complicated in practice, as OGD is hardly used in practice to hol…
The Dutch Open Government Act: Bridging old and new open government
Across the globe, ‘old’ open government is gradually transforming into ‘new’ open government. While freedom of information (FOI) legislation is usually associated with old open government, this legislation itself is also on the move. This country report discusses to what extent the Dutch Open Government Act, that has been enacted very recently, reflects this shift from old to new open government. While certainly incorporating features of modern o…
Where is open data in the Open Data Directive
The 2019 Directive on Open Data and the Re-use of Public Sector Information draws together two traditions in ensuring proactive access to government data. On one hand, it embraces the concept of ‘open data’, a concept rooted in government accountability and transparency for citizen participation. On the other hand, the directive covers the re-use of non-sensitive public sector information, which is deemed crucial for the internal market and reali…
Citizen requests and the price of public information: An experimental test
Pricing of public goods is particularly challenging for public services that are strongly rights-based in character. Such is the case of freedom of information requesting procedures. Costs have implications for how citizens will treat requesting procedures as well as how their views and attitudes towards procedures will be affected. This study examines these causes and consequences using an online experiment with 925 citizens. The findings show t…
Rethinking Open Government Data for Citizen Participation. An Introduction to a Special Issue
Citizen participation has always been considered one of the key pillars of open government: providing citizens with government information should enable them to participate effectively in decision-making or other government procedures. Despite this obvious connection between open government data (OGD) and citizen participation in theory, their relationship turns out to be much more complicated in practice, as OGD is hardly used in practice to hol…
Where is open data in the Open Data Directive
The 2019 Directive on Open Data and the Re-use of Public Sector Information draws together two traditions in ensuring proactive access to government data. On one hand, it embraces the concept of ‘open data’, a concept rooted in government accountability and transparency for citizen participation. On the other hand, the directive covers the re-use of non-sensitive public sector information, which is deemed crucial for the internal market and reali…
What if? A short commentary on the philosophical bedrock of open government discourse
For Jeremy Bentham -the eighteenth-century philosopher, jurist, and reformer -there are three types of citizens. 1First, there is the class of what can be called smart or expert citizens.Expert citizens have the capacity, willingness, and time to reflect on their being-in-the-world.They know, or are at least very busy in acquiring knowledge of, their relationship with the authorities that rule the environment in which they were thrown and reflect…
Open government data from a legal perspective: An AI-driven systematic literature review
While the applicable legal framework is often identified as one of the key factors in the success or failure of open government data (OGD), the concrete impact of ‘OGD law’ on actual practices of OGD is often overlooked or hardly addressed in-depth. This contribution therefore aims to disentangle this legal impact based on an AI-driven systematic literature review combining legal and public administration (PA) publications. First, the review show…
The Dutch Open Government Act: Bridging old and new open government
Across the globe, ‘old’ open government is gradually transforming into ‘new’ open government. While freedom of information (FOI) legislation is usually associated with old open government, this legislation itself is also on the move. This country report discusses to what extent the Dutch Open Government Act, that has been enacted very recently, reflects this shift from old to new open government. While certainly incorporating features of modern o…
Is everything under control? An experimental study on how control over data influences trust in and support for major governmental data exchange projects
The steep rise in the exchange of (citizen) data through government-wide platforms has triggered a demand for better privacy safeguards. One approach to privacy is to give citizens control over the exchange of personal data, hoping to reinforce trust in and support for data-driven governance. However, it remains unclear whether more control fulfils its promise of more support and higher trust. Using an online survey experiment, we study how 1) te…
Seeing data like a state: A case of Open Government Data in India’s livelihoods program
Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives promise to make governments transparent, enabling citizens to participate actively in governance. Yet, empirical evidence suggests that OGD doesn’t have the democratic impact that its advocates expect. Based on a 14-month ethnography of India’s livelihood program, we argue that the assumptions underlying the design of OGD initiatives vary with citizens’ social context. We show how OGD initiatives are state-c…
Is altruism dead? A critical case study on the paradigm shift in Open Government Data
The broad and continued success of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) has helped to spread its ideology to many other domains, including Open Government Data (OGD), which has recently gained prominence due to its potential for feeding algorithms. Despite the anti-market and anti-corporation values around free sharing, citizen participation, and unrestricted transparency propagated in particular by a highly idealized academic discourse on…
Tkacz, Nathaniel (2022) Being with data: The dashboarding of everyday life, Polity Press
Being with data: The dashboarding of everyday life" explores how people encounter and experience data.The book does so by zooming in on one particular format of data that has invaded our everyday life: the dashboard.Issues related to the datafication and dashboarding of everyday life have been highlighted over the last decade, which emphasizes the timeliness and importance of this book.Especially for the public sector (because of open government …
The Power of Partnership in Open Government: Reconsidering Multistakeholder Governance Reform
What if? A short commentary on the philosophical bedrock of open government discourse
For Jeremy Bentham -the eighteenth-century philosopher, jurist, and reformer -there are three types of citizens. 1First, there is the class of what can be called smart or expert citizens.Expert citizens have the capacity, willingness, and time to reflect on their being-in-the-world.They know, or are at least very busy in acquiring knowledge of, their relationship with the authorities that rule the environment in which they were thrown and reflect…
Open government data from a legal perspective: An AI-driven systematic literature review
While the applicable legal framework is often identified as one of the key factors in the success or failure of open government data (OGD), the concrete impact of ‘OGD law’ on actual practices of OGD is often overlooked or hardly addressed in-depth. This contribution therefore aims to disentangle this legal impact based on an AI-driven systematic literature review combining legal and public administration (PA) publications. First, the review show…
Citizen requests and the price of public information: An experimental test
Pricing of public goods is particularly challenging for public services that are strongly rights-based in character. Such is the case of freedom of information requesting procedures. Costs have implications for how citizens will treat requesting procedures as well as how their views and attitudes towards procedures will be affected. This study examines these causes and consequences using an online experiment with 925 citizens. The findings show t…
Rethinking Open Government Data for Citizen Participation. An Introduction to a Special Issue
Citizen participation has always been considered one of the key pillars of open government: providing citizens with government information should enable them to participate effectively in decision-making or other government procedures. Despite this obvious connection between open government data (OGD) and citizen participation in theory, their relationship turns out to be much more complicated in practice, as OGD is hardly used in practice to hol…
The Dutch Open Government Act: Bridging old and new open government
Across the globe, ‘old’ open government is gradually transforming into ‘new’ open government. While freedom of information (FOI) legislation is usually associated with old open government, this legislation itself is also on the move. This country report discusses to what extent the Dutch Open Government Act, that has been enacted very recently, reflects this shift from old to new open government. While certainly incorporating features of modern o…
Where is open data in the Open Data Directive
The 2019 Directive on Open Data and the Re-use of Public Sector Information draws together two traditions in ensuring proactive access to government data. On one hand, it embraces the concept of ‘open data’, a concept rooted in government accountability and transparency for citizen participation. On the other hand, the directive covers the re-use of non-sensitive public sector information, which is deemed crucial for the internal market and reali…
Beyond the Portal: Increasing Citizen Understanding of OGD with Storytelling
The open government data (OGD) movement claims to contribute to transparency and increased citizen understanding of government action. However, the literature so far shows these goals are not being reached, as ‘common’ (non-expert) citizens fail to access and understand OGD. This research makes an empirical contribution to this debate through a design experiment in the form of a field lab with a governmental agency, data visualization experts, an…
Political science (12 works) · Business (10 works) · E-Government and Public Services (10 works) · Government (linguistics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Open data (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Open government (6 works)