The concept of “open government” and “open data” and their role in the administrative evolution

Several studies show that many countries, with an emphasis on the concepts of "open government" and "open data", have made policies to improve governance and reform administration, thereby making their government more open, responsive, efficient, and transparent to citizens. The result of investigation of authoritative internal sources suggests that the issue of open government has been less considered by researchers in public administration in Iran. Due to the new concepts of open data and open government and also the study gap in this area, accomplishment of these concepts in administrative reform requires comparative and in-depth studies in various dimensions of social, economic and political so that according to the specific context of Iran, the policies required in this area are formulated and implemented. The benefits of open government and the solutions based on open data can be used to address the challenges of governance and the Iranian administration. The purpose of this article is to review the concepts of open government and open data based on previous studies, in order to illustrate the dimensions of the "open government”, clarify the role of these concepts in the administrative evolution and finally provide suggestions for using their benefits.