Abstract

GONZALVEZ-GALLEGO, Nicolás; NIETO-TORREJON, Laura  and  PEREZ-CARCELES, María Concepción. A global measure of open government for the OECD. Recommendations for Spain. El trimestre econ [online]. 2021, vol.88, n.349, pp.219-245.  Epub June 18, 2021. ISSN 2448-718X.  https://doi.org/10.20430/ete.v88i349.907.

Different international organizations and national governments are promoting the adoption of open government strategies. There are rankings to measure the evolution of some of its dimensions, but there is a gap of indicators comprising open data, transparency, participation and collaboration simultaneously. In this paper we propose the Open Government and Participation Index (OGPI), based on previous academic works, to compare open government strategies over time and among different countries. The index, which weighs different open government dimensions, is built for a sample of 33 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from open and consistent sources. The results show that the areas of transparency and open data have a wide room for improvement and that participation and collaboration strategies require an autonomous approach. By region, open government is more developed in the Commonwealth countries, while those in Eastern Europe present the lowest level of implementation.

Keywords : Open government; open data; open government data; transparency; participation; index.