The re-use of open government data

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to outline the principles of open government data ("OGD"), to create an insight into the issue of OGD re-use and its users, and to analyse the demand for OGD in the Czech Republic. This work has four objectives. The first is to perform a search for sources of information on the topic of OGD re-use in the Czech Republic and from abroad. The second is to perform a comparison of the level of availability and re-use in the countries mentioned. The third is to define areas of OGD re-use and groups of its users. The last objective is to analyse the de-mand for OGD among users in the Czech Republic. These goals will be achieved by analysing digital libraries and databases of scientific work and other electronic sources, by choosing indicators and areas of OGD re-use to be compared, by analysing the domestic, as well as foreign information sources on the topic of OGD users and areas of re-use and finally by conducting the research of the demand for OGD among Czech users using a questionnaire. The contribution of this work is a summary of different information sources regarding the OGD issue and including an evaluation of information found, assessing a position of the Czech Republic compared with Great Britain and Slovakia, then the synthesis of the areas of OGD re-use and creating groups of its users, and the main objective in this thesis to execute the primary OGD demand research