الفوائد المتوقعة من البيانات الحكومية المفتوحة في المملكة العربية السعودية

Abstract EN

Open government data initiatives provide a number of opportunities that seek political, social, economic, operational, and technical benefits by making them available for public use.

To support these initiatives, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia invests a great deal of effort and money to set up open data portals to be used in providing data sets.

They are administratively bundled and machine- readable.

This study aims to examine the anticipated benefits of open government data initiatives in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

In order to obtain a deep understanding of the anticipated benefits of open government data in Saudi Arabia, 10 semi-structured interviews were conducted with officials implementing open government data initiatives.

The results indicate various anticipated benefits for open government data centred around (1) political and social benefits, (2) economic benefits, and (3) operational and technical benefits.

In conclusion, the researcher points to the need for further studies that may investigate the challenges that limit the achievement of the anticipated benefits of open government data initiatives and the extent to which these benefits can be improved.

Such improvements may be made at the local and regional levels by taking advantage of open data initiatives in other countries, taking into account the context and societal values of each country.