The Core Concept of Service-oriented Smart Government: Challenges and Strategies of Government Data Governance
Lo-Wei Lee, Pin-Yu Chu
Abstract
Following the development of information communications technologies and big and open linked data, the most recent trend of digital governance is government innovation and data governance. In order to explore how the government can shape its data governance strategies in response to the trend of digital governance, we first review literature regarding the international movement of government data governance, interpret data governance from the perspective of Data Lifecycle Management and the diffusion of public sector innovations. Also, we interview 12 senior civil servants, government CIOs, and scholars to understand factors affecting the implementation of data governance and explore the challenges and difficulties faced by the central ministries and local governments in implementing data governance. According to our research results, we found that government agencies did not fully understand the meaning of data governance, and focused more on policy implementation rather than policy planning, which is quite different from the results of the literature review. Therefore, we try to offer some policy suggestions for government agencies based on the five challenges of implementing data governance presented in this study.
Keywords: data governance, open government, government open data, digital governance