ICT Ecosystem in Open Government Data Initiative in Indonesia: Case of National Budget Transparency Initiative in Ministry of Finance

ICT Ecosystem in Open Government Data Initiative in Indonesia: Case of National Budget Transparency Initiative in Ministry of Finance

Author		: MELDI RENDRA
Published on	: IOCICT

Abstract

This paper seeks to portray efforts of Ministry of Finance in materializing its initiative of promoting national budget transparency. The efforts, influenced by governance context and ICT development in Indonesia, experience conception and adoption processes that form the initiative into national budget transparency system currently run. This paper uses conception and technology adoption theory to learn how the budget transparency is concepted by actors in the institution into a unique transparency concept. It also learns how the concept is adopted into an operational system in the institution. This paper seeks to understand how ecosystem or actor configuration within which the conception and adoption processes take place influence choices on substance of the transparency and transparency system that is built. There is disconnection phenomenon between actors and between actors and ideas that occur because of the conception and adoption processes; and we seek to understand the phenomenon.