[...] - Openness: OGS include a visible effort to publish elements and components of the service (data, service components, decision support), with respect to traditional eGovernment. Increased openness aims to ensure accountability and enable collaboration (see next point). Openness can refer to the publication of open data that were not available before; or to the production of reusable software objects that can be re-composed as in the concept of Service-Oriented Architecture.