Dear colleagues!

On behalf of the Twinning Open Data Operational consortium (TODO) we would like to invite you to contribute to the special issue "Trends and Prospects of Opening Data in Problem Driven Societies" for the interdisciplinary INDECS journal (https://www.indecs.eu/ ) coming out at the end of the first quarter of 2022!

While the European Data Strategy strives towards a single European data market, the Open Data Directive is being implemented by EU Member States and other EU measures promoting open data are expected soon, we would appreciate if you would care to share your current work and research on opening and sharing data. Manuscripts between 3,000 and 5,000 words are expected.

We would be grateful it if you could inform us within two weeks as to whether you wish to contribute a manuscript for the special issue "Trends and Prospects of Opening Data in Problem Driven Societies" in the journal Interdisciplinary description of complex systems  (INDECS) (dsalamon@agr.hr). We sincerely hope that your participation will make this special issue more successful.  Below you will find some useful information when you consider this invitation.

INDECS publishes an issue quarterly and is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to users, private persons or institutions. INDECS is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, DOAJ EBSCO Academic SearchTM Complete, EconLit, ERIH PLUS, and Ulrich's. https://www.indecs.eu/

Special Issue and Guest Editors:

Trends and Prospects of Opening Data in Problem Driven Societies:
Dr. ir. Bastiaan van Loenen (TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Knowledge Center Open Data), assist. prof. Dragica Šalamon, PhD (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture) and prof. Anamarija Musa, PhD (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law)

Submission Deadline: 16th January 2022

First decision: 7th February 2022

Revised version submitted: 28th February 2022

Final decision editors: 1 April 2022

Special Issue targeting: April 2022

Submit your 3000 – 5000 words manuscript here and choose option TODO:

 https://www.indecs.eu/index.php?s=manus

We sincerely hope that this invitation will receive your favourable consideration. We are happy to answer your questions and we look forward to hearing from you soon.

We will be happy to receive your manuscript and looking forward to hearing your earliest response.

Please feel free to contact us, if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind regards,

Bastiaan van Loenen, Dragica Šalamon, Anamarija Musa

Guest Editors of the Special Issue ”Trends and Prospects of Opening Data in Problem driven Society”, INDECS


INDECS (online ISSN 1334-4676, and printed ISSN 1334-4684) is a journal published by Croatian Interdisciplinary Society, a non-profit civil organisation, a member of the International Federation for Systems Research. INDECS maintains rigorous double blind peer-review. All articles are published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. All INDECS content is freely available without charge to users, private persons or institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.