Over the past decade, governments and transparency advocates have hailed \u2018open government data\u2019 as a driving force of democracy that promotes principles of transparency, accountability, and participation. While open government data\u2019s branding implies its democratic potential, accompanying rhetoric espoused by government officials suggests that open government initiatives also yield measurable economic benefits.\u00a0This research paper examines current \u2018data-driven transparency\u2019 initiatives and their effects on the society, including the formation of a \u2018data public\u2019 and the resulting ascendance of neoliberal politics.<\/p>\n
I begin by discussing the political climate that influenced transparency advocacy and open government data directives. Next, I define transparency and assess its misguided conflation with accountability in open government contexts. The subsequent section covers \u2018back room\u2019 details of data production processes, tracing how governments actively curate \u2018raw data\u2019 to reflect existing social structures and political interests. Then, I consider how the participatory aspect of open government data perpetuates inequities created by the digital divide. My final section discusses the consequences of the data public, such as outsourcing labor to individual entrepreneurs, commodification of public information, and the formation of public private partnerships conducive to the politics of neoliberalism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “\u2018Data-Drive Transparency\u2019: Creation and Consequence of the Data-Public” analyzes the impact open government data programs have on society. The paper discusses how open government data, despite being marketed as democratic transparency initiative, results in the formation of a ‘data-public’ and the ascendance of neoliberal politics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[220,3,803,221,137],"coauthors":[605],"class_list":["post-4351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-203","tag-critical-theory","tag-data","tag-dav","tag-open-government","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7615,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions\/7615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}