Awareness and Use of Open Data among Slovenian Enterprises

Dr. Mirjana Kljajić Borštnar is a full professor in Information Systems at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor. Her research focuses on decision support systems, data mining and digitalisation, in recent years specifically on measuring the digital and data maturity of enterprises and assessing the impacts of open data. She is the editor-in-chief of the journal Uporabna informatika, vice president of Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA and co-chair of the program committee of the Bled e-Conference and the Symposium on Operational Research in Slovenia. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the AI4Slovenia initiative.

Kranj, Slovenia. E-mail: mirjana.kljajic@um.si

Dr. Marjeta Marolt is an associate professor at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences at the University of Maribor. Her research focuses primarily on business model innovation, digital transformation, social customer relationship management, business intelligence, and learning analytics. She is actively involved in national and international research projects. She publishes her research results in scientific journals and transfers them into the teaching process.

Kralj, Slovenia. E-mail: marjeta.marolt@um.si

Dr. Andreja Pucihar is a Full Professor of Information Systems at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor. Her research primarily focuses on digital innovation, digital transformation, and digital business models. Dr. Pucihar co-authored a national tool for assessing the digital maturity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), utilized by the Digital Innovation Hub Slovenia, as well as an assessment tool evaluating SME readiness for open data adoption and utilization. She brings over 25 years of experience in industrial and European projects, especially those supporting digitalization and digital transformation in SMEs.

Kranj, Slovenia. E-mail: andreja.pucihar@um.si

Staša Blatnik je asistentka na Fakulteti za organizacijske vede, kjer aktivno deluje v okviru Katedre za informacijske sisteme. Njeno raziskovalno delo je usmerjeno v proučevanje uporabe odprtih podatkov v podjetjih, zlasti v njihovo implementacijo za izboljšanje poslovne uspešnosti ob hkratnem doseganju trajnostnih ciljev razvoja.

Kranj, Slovenia. E-mail: stasa.blatnik1@um.si