Author : Holly Jarman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319278231
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
Book Synopsis Private Data and Public Value by : Holly Jarman
Download or read book Private Data and Public Value written by Holly Jarman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the ways in which these systems can promote public value by encouraging the disclosure and reuse of privately-held data in ways that support collective values such as environmental sustainability. Supported by funding from the National Science Foundation, the authors' research team has been working on one such system, designed to enhance consumers ability to access information about the sustainability of the products that they buy and the supply chains that produce them. Pulled by rapidly developing technology and pushed by budget cuts, politicians and public managers are attempting to find ways to increase the public value of their actions. Policymakers are increasingly acknowledging the potential that lies in publicly disclosing more of the data that they hold, as well as incentivizing individuals and organizations to access, use, and combine it in new ways. Due to technological advances which include smarter phones, better ways to track objects and people as they travel, and more efficient data processing, it is now possible to build systems which use shared, transparent data in creative ways. The book adds to the current conversation among academics and practitioners about how to promote public value through data disclosure, focusing particularly on the roles that governments, businesses and non-profit actors can play in this process, making it of interest to both scholars and policy-makers.