The goal of this work is to explore the political circumstances driving government authorities to further and develop relatively robust Open Government Data (OGD) strategies, even though this may imply them weakening their power and giving away their control over data to citizens, Congresspeople and other stakeholders. With this aim, this work studies the cases of Mexico, Chile and Colombia between 2010 and 2018—these countries have implemented OGD strategies with varying degrees of success. The data provided by interviewees, along with that retrieved from secondary sources, show that (1) the robustness of Mexico’s OGD strategy owes significantly to the corruption cases President Peña Nieto and his wife were directly involved in; (2) the weakness of the Chilean OGD strategy is coherent with a general lack of interest in this technology among government authorities; and (3) the incremental, robust evolution of Colombia’s OGD strategy is indirectly connected to President Santos’ intention that Colombia would improve its international reputation.
Keywords:
Institutional Capacities, Policy Transfer, Process Tracing
Abusleme, C. (2020). Why do governments further open data strategies? The cases of Mexico, Chile and Colombia. Journal Studies of Public Policy, 6(1), 20–41. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-6296.2020.57804
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