Public authorities are among the biggest creators and collectors of data in many different fields. Open data represents a shift in how governments shape their relationships with citizens to build a more open, progressive, and democratic operation. Putting pressure on public organizations to release their raw data has significantly increased the availability of open data. However, the number of truly open public sector data remains low. The purpose of the master's thesis is to identify the encouraging and inhibiting factors of data openness in the Slovenian administrative environment. Utilizing an online survey questionnaire, we carried out an analysis of encouraging and inhibiting factors. In an international context, a comparative method of data opening factors in the Slovenian administrative environment compared to data opening factors in the United Kingdom was carried out. In the master's thesis, we classified the factors that influence the encouragement or inhibition of the opening of public sector data into five groups. These are economic, technical, cultural, normative, and environmental factors. It was ascertained that in the Slovenian administrative environment, technical factors inhibit the opening of data to the greatest extent while environmental factors encourage it to the greatest extent. The master's thesis contributes to administrative science through the identification of the current state of inhibiting and encouraging factors of data opening in Slovenian municipalities, ministries, and bodies within ministries. The empirical research of the master's thesis is suitable for further research and comparisons of inhibiting and encouraging factors in the future at the international level.
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