...Ahmad Nadzri Mohamad Purpose This paper aims to explore the extent of open data actualization for start-up entrepreneurs based on affordance theory. The principal interest of the study revolves around the possible actions or actualization of open data for innovation and entrepreneurial benefits...

...). Furthermore, the benefits of OGD have been extended to an economic sector where it is seen as an essential component to boost social and commercial innovation that, in turn, will benefit the economy (Juell et al., 2014). Furthermore, McKinsey analysts estimated that the availability of open data...

... derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Big data Open data Data privacy Datafication...

... Licensed re-use rights only Research data management Dataverse Open science Open data Scholarly communication Academic libraries Research data management has become increasingly important to researchers, as major funding agencies have started requiring data sharing and management plans...

...Obadia Shadrack Buhomoli; Paul Samwel Muneja Purpose This study aims to investigate the factors determining the readiness for uptake of open data (OD) in Tanzania. Specifically, this study intended to answer the question that sought to find out the factors that influence the implementation of OD...

... and departments should post open data on their websites as well as contribute toward the OGD portal. Timely availability of data sets would result in improvisation of services. The study is, however, limited in its scope because of its theoretical research approach. The study holds relevance in terms...

... implementation of the OGD initiatives in terms of the usage of the open data sets (Heeks, 2006). Further, it is important that benchmarks and other evaluation parameters be outlined for ascertaining the quality of the open data sets (Arcelus, 2012 ; Veljkovic et al., 2014) so that the overall aims...