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spir-11047	Tavmen, Gunes	OPEN DATA MEANS BUSINESS: WHEN MONETARY POTENTIAL IN OPEN DATA USURPS ASPIRATIONS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPERANCY IN THE SMART CITY	2019.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1266	75	54	In doing so, I will foreground the political nature of open data despite the open data advocates' claim that open data movement is above ideologies and politics (Bates, 2012, 2013), therefore has been an “overly polite” one that chose to collaborate closely with consecutive governments instead of contesting them (Steinberg, 2016). OPEN DATA MEANS BUSINESS: WHEN MONETARY POTENTIAL IN OPEN DATA USURPS ASPIRATIONS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPERANCY IN THE SMART CITY Güneş Tavmen King's College London Following the common criticism that smart cities are top-to-bottom, neoliberal, and technocratic corporate-led ambitions (McNeill, 2015; Söderström et al., 2014; Hollands, 2015; Wiig, 2015), open data has become pivotal in transforming smart city discourses into 'citizen-centric ones (also see Kitchin, 2014 and Barns, 2016) despite a lack of understanding its limitations, and political and contingent nature (Worthy, 2015).	cache/spir-11047.pdf	txt/spir-11047.txt