Predictors for the Adoption of Open Data Technologies: An UMEGA Model

Open Data initiative is attracting considerable interest globally due to the growing phenomena of transparency, accountability, quality of life, and business. The adoption of open data technologies is inevitably an issue to better exploit the full potential and benefits of open data available to the public. The main issue in our knowledge of open data technologies is the scarcity of research studies on the adoption of open data technologies. Thus, the main objective of this study is to predict and explain the factors that influence the adoption of open data technologies. A Unified Model of Electronic Government Adoption (UMEGA) was employed as a lens to examine the influencing factors including additional factors i.e. imitating the behavior of others, disregarding own beliefs, and grievance redressal to make a novel contribution in the adoption studies. The survey method was used to collect the data from citizens and analyzed using Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) technique in SmartPLS 3. Satisfactory results are obtained proving that facilitating conditions has a significant positive influence on effort expectancy, effort expectancy on performance expectancy, performance expectancy on attitude, and attitude on behavioral intention to adopt open data technologies even though the number of participants is very small. Implications for the academics and managers are also outlined. Future researchers should find more concrete pieces of evidence upon collecting a large number of responses.