Citizens’ Motivations for Engaging in Open Data Hackathons

Citizens’ Motivations for Engaging in Open Data Hackathons

Purwanto, A. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology)
Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, A.M.G. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology)
Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology)

Panagiotopoulos, Panos (editor)
Edelmann, Noella (editor)
Parycek, Peter (editor)
Lampoltshammer, Thomas (editor)
Glassey, Olivier (editor)
Misuraca, Gianluca (editor)
Re, Barbara (editor)

2019

Engaging citizens in open data hackathons provides opportunities for innovation and the generation of new services and products. This paper aims to explore the motivations of citizens who engage in open agriculture data hackathons. We conducted a case study and analyzed data collected from 161 participants of 11 farming hackathons held between 2016 and 2018 in the Netherlands. We found that participants of open agriculture data hackathons have different roles, including business developer, concept thinker, data analyst, data owner, developer, manager, marketer, problem owner, and student. Our analysis shows that citizens are predominantly motivated to engage in open agricultural data hackathons as part of their work. Furthermore, developers and problem owners are mainly motivated by fun and enjoyment. This indicates that it is important for open data policymakers and hackathon organizers to consider different approaches based on citizens’ roles when organizing open data hackathons. This paper contributes to the literature by providing insight in the motivations of citizens engaging in open agriculture data hackathons in comparison with hackathons in other sectors, and by mapping citizens’ roles to their motivations for engaging in such hackathons.

Agriculture
Citizen engagement
Hackathon
Open Government Data
Open data

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ff38bfde-9279-4302-9735-553eac0342b6

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27397-2_11

Springer

2020-01-26

9783030273965

Electronic Participation - 11th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2019, Proceedings: 11th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2019, San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy, September 2–4, 2019, Proceedings

Electronic Participation - EGOV2019 – Joint conference EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2019, 2019-09-02 → 2019-09-04, San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 0302-9743, 11686 LNCS

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© 2019 A. Purwanto, A.M.G. Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, M.F.W.H.A. Janssen