text: set of infrastructures and methods imposed top-down 
  
  • diffused, seamless conversations, that are only possible with digital technologies, online 
  
  social networks and so on, between public employees and citizens. 
  
  The obvious potential limit of these definitions is that they rely on a big, still largely unknown 
  
  factor, that is actual citizen participation. When data are opened, the problem becomes to have 
  
  everybody use them, in order to actually realize Open Government as defined above. This issue will 
  
  be explored in detail in the next paragraphs, but we can already say that Open Data are highlighting 
  
  the critical, weak points in the present and future relationship between citizens and governments. 
  
  While citizens participation is essential, especially in times of social and economic crisis, achieving 
  
  it on a large scale won't be easy. Frustration and lack of trust in institutions in many countries are 
  
  high, so it's no surprise when people express doubts that opening government data won't help much 
  
  in fixing things. 