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To calculate GGOI, panel data for 134 countries from 2006 to 2015 were used.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>GGOI scores constantly improved with an annual growth rate of 2.09 percent. Countries with high ACC values tend to have high TRA scores, resulting in high GGOI scores. While the differences in ACC and TRA were steady over the period, ICT increased the most in all groups. To boost ICT performance as a channel to support other variables, middle-income countries should make further effort for citizens to use ICT capabilities toward enhancing the levels of CPF and TRA.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>This study presents a global picture of the advancement of open government and provides insights into specific areas that can be diagonalized.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The GGOI could be used as a useful assessment tool to measure the progress of government openness in countries and implement policies and action plans for improving government openness.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The GGOI covers the areas related to legal, administrative, participatory and technological factors and provides the factors\u2019 inter-relationships for the composition of GGOI.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/ajim-04-2019-0083","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,21]],"date-time":"2019-10-21T04:21:41Z","timestamp":1571631701000},"page":"17-33","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Factors and their relationships in measuring the progress of open government"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"72","author":[{"given":"Eun G.","family":"Park","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wankeun","family":"Oh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2020010808421571700_ref001","unstructured":"Access Info Europe (n.d.a), \u201cOpen Government Standards\u201d, available at: www.access-info.org\/pub-and-toolkits\/10679 (accessed March 28, 2019)."},{"key":"key2020010808421571700_ref002","unstructured":"Access Info Europe (n.d.b), \u201cWhat is the right to know?\u201d, available at: www.access-info.org\/right-to-know (accessed March 28, 2019)."},{"key":"key2020010808421571700_ref003","unstructured":"Chiviru, T. 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