Uncovering the purchasing of private sector data by governments: State of play in the Netherlands

To address complex societal challenges, governments increasingly need to make evidence-based decisions and require the best available data as input. As much of relevant data is now in the hands of the private sector, governments increasingly resort to purchasing data from private sources. There is, however, scant empirical evidence and a lack of understanding of how government organizations go about data purchasing. This research is the first effort to create an evidence base about what data Dutch governments purchase from whom, how, and what for. In this study, we conducted a mapping to ident... Mehr ...