On December 10, 2021, Arie Purwanto successfully defended his PhD dissertation, entitled “Citizen Engagement with Open Government Data: A Model for Analyzing Factors Influencing Citizen Engagement”. The dissertation is available through the TU Delft Repository (open access). We would like to congratulate Dr. Purwanto with this great achievement!

On December 21, 2021, Anneke Zuiderwijk was invited to provide a keynote presentation for a Webinar of the Graphic Era University, India. The presentation was entitled “Open Government Data – Towards value creating and sustainable open data ecosystems”.

In February 2022, Liubov Pilshchikova will join our open data lab. The objective of her PhD research is to investigate the influence of resources provided by NGOs on the usability of open government data.