Learning from Opening DateData in the Context of E-Government Governance : Finland, with Special Reference to Governments’ Government Location Data PerttiAhonen 1✉Emailpertti.ahonen@helsinki.fi Pertti Ahonen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Helsinki. In 2015 –2017 he led the research project Digital Humanities of Public Policy Formation, funded by the Kone Foundation of Finland. He has had recent articles in Sage Open, Big Data & Society, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Evaluation, and International Journal of Critical Accounting. 1Faculty of the Social SciencesUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland AQ1 Abstract The abstract is published online only. If you did not include a short abstract for the online version when you submitted the manuscript, the first paragraph or the first 10 lines of the chapter will be displayed here. If possible, please provide us with an informative abstract. The purpose of this chapter is to construct a framework to examine change in e-governance, apply this framework in a one-country case study on opening government location data, and draw conclusions. The conceptual framework is comprised of four dimensions: influential historical, social and political mechanisms; the diffusion of innovations; stages of e-governance development; and facilitators of change. The research material is comprised of documents and interviews. According to the results, the will for e-governance change must increaseaccumulate in government and elsewhere, e-governance change has to be legitimated with accounts of its benefits, the costs of the change have to be accounted for, and organizational and individual facilitators may be needed. Conclusions are drawn for future research and those concerning e-governance practice in developed and developing countries. 11.1. Introduction In this article “e-governance” refers to institutional arrangements and certain activities within the bounds of these arrangements, such as analysinganalyzing, planning, deciding, organizing, implementing, managing, controlling, communicating, cooperating, and collaborating with the mediation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) (Milakovich 2012). The actors may be comprised of public governments, supra- and multi-national organizations, businesses, non-profit private organizations, and individual citizens, clients , or customers. It is possible to subdivide e-governance further, for instance, into e-government, e-democracy, e- business, e-commerce, e-management, and so on, and into components in which priority lies with individuals, institutional sectors, institutional structures, data, or decision-making (Veljković et al. 2014).