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Institutional Analysis of Opening Water Data Access: Case Study of Iran

Tabatabaei, Mahmood | 2024

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 57050 (44)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Management and Economics
  6. Advisor(s): Miremadi, Iman; Zarghami, Mahdi
  7. Abstract:
  8. Having adequate information about water and weather condition is critical for many areas of governance, specially in the context of increasing rates of climate change and uncertainty related to different weather conditions. Open water data and data dissemintation decision making in Iran is facing many challenges, while the number of users and variety of services based on these data and information is increasing. Based on the review of the documents in this study, the most problems that have been reported for developed countries in the field of collecting, processing and using these data and information are the technical challenges related to the large volume of raw data and the need for diverse and heavy infrastructures to process them; But according to the findings of this research, technical challenges in Iran are associated with various other challenges, including “institutional issues” and “financial issues” in the discussion of data gathering and processing. Among the most important institutional challenges of these data in Iran, we can mention the lack of general water data policy, the monopoly of public data in the state organizations, and the discretionary performance of state organizations, and among financial issues, the inappropriate budgeting structure. These issues are so serious that without changes in existing official processes in thease organizations and responsible institutions, there will not be a positive perspective to move towards improving data collection and processing methods, as well as their dissemination for public and commercial applications. By examining the institutions of water data custodians in Iran and selected cases from the developed countries, by reviewing online and library documents, as well as analyzing the themes of semi-structured interviews of 28 experts in different water fields in the country, this research aims to find the roots of important challenges and providing solutions. The number of 15 interviews with analytical priority in this research were analyzed with thematic analysis method as basic analysis and institutional mapping and stakeholder analysis as complementary analyses and at the end, by accurately identifying the system of problems in water data, especially the main issues in this field, including "lack of general data policy", "discretionary performance" and "institutional resistance to change", 4 main solutions have been provided in order to solve these problems, which are "changing the water institutional structure", "creating a specialized state organization", "creating a specialized state-owned company" and "soft interaction with organizations". By examining the different aspects of the solutions to the problems and prioritizing them, the fourth solution, that is, the "soft interaction with organizations", which is based on the resolving the discretionary function, was found to be the most appropriate in solving recognized problems
  9. Keywords:
  10. Stakeholder Management ; Comparative Survey ; Discretionary Performance ; Water Data ; Data Policy ; Stakeholder Analysis ; Organizational Conflict

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