[open-government] Joint HSE/"Information Culture" report on the implementation of Open Data in Russia in 2013

Mon Oct 14 10:18:32 UTC 2013

Thank you very much for this update Andrew. Really useful, thanks for
sharing.

Ton

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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Andrew Stott
<andrew.stott at dirdigeng.com>wrote:

> The Higher School of Economics at the National Research University, Moscow,
> and "Information Culture" have published an analysis of the results the
> open
> data initiative in the Russian Federation in 2013.  According to the
> report,
> by 25 September 2013 577 datasets were available from 59 federal agencies,
> against a target of 500.
>
> A rough translation of the key findings of the report is as follows:
>
> 1. Despite the fact that all actions to implement open data in the Russian
> Federation are in accordance with the road map, 14 federal authorities have
> not yet started work on it.
>
> 2. The key indicators on the roadmap have been achieved.  However none of
> the really popular data sets have been published.  This hinders the
> emergence of new applications.
>
> 3. There has been a tendency to split a single thematic dataset into small
> tables; this increases the number of datasets “published”.  For instance 98
> of the 102 “datasets” from the Russian Federal Statistics Agency ROSSTAT
> appear to be extracts from one underlying database with different filters.
> Evaluation of progress should be more based on the value and relevance of
> the datasets.
>
> 4. The publication of data has kept quite closely to the methodology set by
> the Ministry of Economics (overall an adherence of 75% to all the data
> publication requirements across all federal executive bodies).  However
> there are regular sources of error:
> *  Data published but not available for *download* (in 9 Federal bodies
> more
> than 50% of datasets cannot be downloaded)
> *  Only 23% of federal bodies have placed a feedback section in their open
> data site
>
> 5. Regions and municipalities are actively involved in the work on open
> data, but at this level of error is greater.  This is due to a lack of
> explanation of open data.  The most common mistake is a misunderstanding of
> the term open data: OLAP based analyses and draft laws are being published
> instead of machine-readable data.
>
> 6. Since the President’s decree on Open Data in July 2012 there have been
> no
> less than 24 other decrees containing provisions on public access to
> information but these did not contain any indication of the need for access
> to the information in the form of open data.
>
> 7. Russian federal open data portal is under heavy discussion right now.
> First document with portal specification and requirement was criticised by
> experts due lack of focus on 5-stars data and many other topics.
> The full report (in Russian) can be found here http://goo.gl/AlmxEo
>
> Thanks to Ivan Begtin (Information Culture) and Evgeny Styrin (HSE) for
> review of this post.
>
>
>
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