Disclosure of public information of Spanish regional governments (2013-2017): Open data portals, transparency portals and institutional websites
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https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2018.sep.09Keywords:
Disclosure, Open data, Data reuse, Transparency, Accountability, Regional governments, Spain.Abstract
The extent of data disclosure related to transparency and accountability in Spanish regional governments is analyzed for the period 2013-2017. For that purpose, an index with weighting of the quality for data reutilization is used. The index is first calculated for open data portals, and then transparency portals and institutional websites are added to the assessment. Findings show that just five regional governments clearly opt for open data based transparency and accountability. Nevertheless, there is a general improvement when transparency portals and institutional websites are added to the index, mainly because of data disclosed in transparency portals. Findings show that fourteen regional governments show sincere transparency and accountability policies, five of them with open data and the remainders with transparency portals. On the contrary, four regional governments perform a sheer apparent transparency behavior, without disclosing significant data.
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