The Impact of Data Liberalization on Open Data Platform in Smart City

Today, moving to smart cities is one of the most important concerns of government leaders and rulers, in which the evolution for the process of creating or improving citizen services and utilities is quite evident. Previous studies have shown that the main factor in this evolution is how to use urban data collected from stakeholders and physical systems located in the city and to release data for use by different users. Today Open data policy is aimed at providing innovation potential for businesses, governments,and entrepreneurs, which sometimes pose challenges.In this paper, the findings related to the study of multiple cases by using data in smart cities, open data capabilities and the reasons for moving to open data platforms, the challenges of using data, as well as the role of private and public institutions in data dissemination are presented and also deals with the activities carried out in Iran and potential available. However, the knowledge required to use data in smart cities needs further studies.