Detail výsledku
Transparency in Czech Regions: Evaluation of Open Data Availability for Public Awareness
John Petr, Ing., UIFS (FIT), UPGM (FIT)
Janošík Adam, Bc., FIT (FIT)
Hynek Jiří, Ing., Ph.D., UIFS (FIT)
Hruška Tomáš, prof. Ing., CSc., UIFS (FIT)
Innovations in information technology have created opportunities to improve
living conditions for citizens and residents. One key development is the smart
city concept, which offers benefits like ambient-assisted living. However,
residents need to express their needs and evaluate whether legislators take
meaningful steps to address them. Effective monitoring of policy decisions is
necessary not only at the city level, but also for larger administrative units
such as regions or the entire state. Effective monitoring requires leveraging
open government data with appropriate tools to prevent misinformation and empty
political promises. Assessing the availability and quality of these data is the
key to achieving these objectives. The regional elections in autumn 2024 were an
impulse for us to assess the transparency of Czech regional
councils-specifically, how easily citizens can access and understand information
about policy decisions that affect them. In addition to analysis of the available
data and assessment of the transparency of the regions, our results include
a process to achieve this goal, applicable to other OGDs, and unified datasets
and visualizations confirming the universality of the tools we have developed.
Open Government Data, Smart City, sustainability, regional council, government
transparency
@inproceedings{BUT197686,
author="Kristýna {Zaklová} and Petr {John} and Adam {Janošík} and Jiří {Hynek} and Tomáš {Hruška}",
title="Transparency in Czech Regions: Evaluation of Open Data Availability for Public Awareness",
booktitle="IEEE Xplore",
year="2025",
series="2025 Smart City Symposium Prague (SCSP)",
pages="1--6",
publisher="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
address="Prague",
doi="10.1109/SCSP65598.2025.11037709",
isbn="979-8-3315-2550-7",
url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11037709"
}