Exploring Citizen Participation in Open Government Data on Social Networking from Empowerment Perspective

• Main Authors: Yu-Chi Yeh, 葉昱琦
• Other Authors: Hsing-Tzu Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12516095535397787116

碩士 === 國立高雄大學 === 資訊管理學系碩士班 === 103 === Recently, open data has been the important issue around the world. The open government data is the most important part of open data is the data that provide by the government. People can use these data without any restrictions, and create more value by use it. But provide open government data not only the government’s business, but also people and these communities. People can use data to create innovative services or products and also supervise the government. The process of providing data is empowering the citizen society. This research use the empowerment theory as the theoretical foundation and the psychological empowerment is the encouraging factor, the distrust and suspicion are the weaken factors. To explore the effects of citizen participation in open government data with these factors. This research took people who has read the news or information about open data as the research object. The valid samples are 625, which used structural equation modeling (SEM) for analysis. The result shows that the encouraging factors such as meaning and competence may positively impact the citizen participation. And the weaken factors such as suspicion and malevolence would negatively impact the citizen participation. Besides, the weaken factors such as incompetence may positively impact the citizen participation. These findings have implications for both research and practices in the end of the thesis.