[open-government] Announcing the Open Data Challenge – a pan-European open data competition

[Ivan Begtin]

Hello from Russia.

I think that challenge is a great idea and I hope that results will be
great. Here in Russia we keep looking at European open government data
activities and we hope that it will help our officials to move to open
government data soon.

Also we have lot's of russian open data sources at OpenGovData.ru (
http://www.opengovdata.ru) so if you need help to use it for this challenge
I will be happy to help.

For example, there are data about russian agrocultural import from EU
countries including lists of organizations permitted to import production
and banlists of production by country.
You could see it here
http://www.rosselkhoznadzor.ru/fsvps/importExport?_language=en

Best Regards,
  Ivan Begtin
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Russian Open Data
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2011/4/5 Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com>

> Fantastic. Anyone want to partner to do OpenlyLocal in territories
> other than the UK?
> Chris
>

I am personally admire this project and I hope that we will be able to
partner someday.
Just Russian local councils (municipalities) actually are "virtual" and we
have too much of them - about 800 first level municipalities and about 23
000 second level over all Russia. And this structure is not fixed, it's
changing.
They were created not so long ago after SU collapse and most of them even
don't have websites or any over Internet representation.
Right now, as part of OpenGovData.ru we aggregate information about russian
regions and prepare this data to be public similar way as OpenlyLocal does.
As next step, we probably will collect data about russian municipalities
region by region.

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> On 5 April 2011 09:10, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Dear all
> >
> > For a long while our Working Group on EU Open Data has been very keen to
> run a pan-European open data competition. Hence we're very pleased to
> announced the opening of the Open Data Challenge, which is precisely such a
> competition.
> >
> > The competition is open for the next 60 days and there are EURO 20,000 in
> prizes up for grabs! As seems fitting for a pan-European initiative, the
> winners will be announced by EC Vice President Neelie Kroes in Brussels this
> coming June.
> >
> > You can find out all the details at:
> >
> >        http://opendatachallenge.org/
> >
> > You can find the Press release on the OKFN Blog:
> >
> http://blog.okfn.org/2011/04/05/announcing-the-open-data-challenge-a-pan-european-open-data-competition/
> >
> > Please help spread the word and re-tweet:
> https://twitter.com/#!/okfn/status/55300488895270912
> >
> > This is *really* a great day for OPen Data in Europe!
> >
> > All the best
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> >
> >
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С уважением,
  Иван Бегтин
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