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agencies evaluate the effectiveness of cross-boundary information<br />

sharing in the public sector.<br />

3. CROSS-BOUNDARY INFORMATION<br />

SHARING AND OPEN DATA<br />

Overall, cross-boundary information sharing has been a thriving<br />

research field in e-Government and continues drawing researchers<br />

from various disciplines. The current research in literature mainly<br />

focuses on interagency information sharing. However, as<br />

researchers indicate, government agencies also share information<br />

to private enterprises or non-profit organizations, and a sectoral<br />

boundary is observed [6]. In addition, in recent years, open<br />

government has become an important policy among the<br />

government administrations around the world. In the<br />

memorandum on transparency and open government, Obama [11],<br />

the president of the United States, suggests that government<br />

should be transparent, participatory, and collaborative. He<br />

believes that information maintained by government is national<br />

asset. While consistent with law and policy, each government<br />

agency should disclose its possessed information in forms that the<br />

public can access and use. New information communication<br />

technologies should also be employed by government agencies to<br />

help put information online for the public. He also stresses that<br />

government agencies should cooperate with each other and with<br />

nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals to have the<br />

public engage in the work of government. Through public<br />

engagement, the efficiency and effectiveness of government can<br />

be enhanced and the quality of decision making can be improved<br />

by collective expertise and knowledge [11].<br />

Therefore, cross-boundary information sharing is not limited to<br />

government agencies. Under the consent of current law and<br />

regulation, government agencies are encouraged to provide their<br />

possessed data to the public for innovative and value-added<br />

purposes by using the collective intelligence and creativity. While<br />

highly related to open data initiatives, cross-boundary information<br />

sharing in e-Government should not include only government<br />

agencies but also the general public should be counted.<br />

4. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH<br />

While open data initiatives can be considered one type of crossboundary<br />

information sharing between government agencies and<br />

the public including businesses, nonprofit organizations, and<br />

individuals, the aforementioned research in the current<br />

information-sharing literature can be applied to open data<br />

initiatives to provide insights. For instance, what are the factors to<br />

influence government agencies’ intentions to participate in open<br />

data projects and to share data to the public? Whether the<br />

initiatives of interagency information sharing and the initiatives of<br />

open data share the same influential factors? In addition, open<br />

data are posted online and shared by using the newest ICTs. It is<br />

interesting to discuss whether the traditional IS theoretical<br />

frameworks such as TAM, UTATA, and IS Success theory can be<br />

applied to provide insights? It is also interesting to explore the<br />

information seeking behaviors of the public. When the public tries<br />

to retrieve governmental open data, what are the factors to<br />

influence its behaviors?<br />

By using case study methodology, the researcher of the proposed<br />

research is interested in investigating the current open data<br />

initiatives in Taiwan e-Government. Specifically, the following<br />

research questions will be explored:<br />

478<br />

1) In the setting of open data in e-Government, how are open<br />

data initiatives carried out by the Taiwanese governmental<br />

agencies?<br />

2) What are the critical factors that influence the open data<br />

initiatives in Taiwan?<br />

3) What is the nature of the impact of the factors on the open<br />

data initiatives?<br />

4) How do government agencies and the public evaluate the<br />

effectiveness of open data initiatives?<br />

The result of this exploratory research will be compared with the<br />

research result in cross-boundary information sharing among<br />

government agencies. Lastly, the research can also contribute to<br />

the current open data literature from an international perspective.<br />

5. REFERENCES<br />

[1] Gil-Garcia, J.R., I. Chengalur-Smith, and P. Duchessi,<br />

Collaborative e-Government: impediments and benefits of<br />

information-sharing projects in the public sector. European<br />

Journal of Information Systems, 2007. 16(2): p. 121-133.<br />

[2] Pardo, T.A. and G.K. Tayi, Interorganizational information<br />

integration: A key enabler for digital government.<br />

Government Information Quarterly, 2007. 24(4): p. 691-715.<br />

[3] Zhang, J. and S.S. Dawes, Expectations and perceptions of<br />

benefits, barriers, and success in public sector knowledge<br />

networks. Public Performance & Management Review, 2006.<br />

29(4): p. 433-466.<br />

[4] Yang, T.-M., Extending current theories of cross-boundary<br />

information sharing and integration: A case study of Taiwan<br />

e-Government, 2011, University at Albany, State University<br />

of New York: Albany, NY, USA.<br />

[5] Yang, T.-M. and Y.-J. Wu. Identifying the information types<br />

and the purposes of cross-boundary information sharing. in<br />

American Society for Public Administration Annual<br />

Conference, Public Administration without Borders. 2011.<br />

Balimore, Maryland, USA.<br />

[6] Yang, T.-M., L. Zheng, and T.A. Pardo, The boundaries of<br />

information sharing and integration: A case study of Taiwan<br />

e-Government. Government Information Quarterly, 2012.<br />

29(1): p. S51-S60.<br />

[7] Yang, T.-M. and T.A. Pardo. How is information shared<br />

across boundaries? in Hawaii International Conference on<br />

System Sciences. 2011. Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii, USA: IEEE<br />

Computer Society.<br />

[8] Gil-Garcia, J.R. and T.A. Pardo, E-Government success<br />

factors: Mapping practical tools to theoretical foundations.<br />

Government Information Quarterly, 2005. 22(2): p. 187-216.<br />

[9] Barki, H. and A. Pinsonneault, A Model of Organizational<br />

Integration, Implementation Effort, and Performance<br />

Organization Science, 2005. 16(2): p. 165-179.<br />

[10] DeLone, W.H. and E.R. McLean, The DeLone and McLean<br />

model of information systems success: A ten-year update.<br />

Journal of Management information systems, 2003. 19(4): p.<br />

9-30.<br />

[11] Obama, B. Memorandum on Transparency and Open<br />

Government. 2009 [cited 2012 March 3]; Available from:<br />

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Transparencyan<br />

dOpenGovernment.

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