The Role of Open Government Data in Urban Areas Development

Abstract

The next step for our urban areas is to become friendly using open data. The focus of this paper is to highlight the necessity and the implementation of Open Government Data (OGD). It also presents the principles of Open Government Data. The paper aims to analyze the OGD solutions and the impact of these for urban development using a SWOT analysis. In our age OGD confers an important advantage in development economy. In this case everybody tries to implement efficient OGD.

Keywords

• Open Data
• Open Government Data
• Smart Cities
• Friendly Cities
• Knowledge Economy