[open-government] A lot of new Russian news and open government projects

[Baden Appleyard]

Thats great news Ivan!

Thanks for letting us know.

Cheers

b


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On 4 March 2013 03:54, Ivan Begtin <ibegtin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> last year here in Russia we actively promoted open data and open
> government initiatives, started new projects and right now we see and
> review a lot of open government projects lauched by government agencies.
>
> Unfortunately most of these projects are only in Russian so I suggest to
> use tools like Google Translate to get more information.
>
> First of all we launched 2 new CKAN based open data catalogs:
> - OpenData Hub - http://hub.opengovdata. We moved all datasets from our
> OpenGovData.ru website to the CKAN based repository. Also we loaded a lot
> of new data and
> - Open police data - http://data.openpolice.ru - it's special data hub
> with crime statistics, police organizations, police budget and so on. It's
> part of OpenPolice project - http://www.openpolice.ru
>
> At the same time russian government agencies also started publishing open
> data and new projects appeared not so long ago:
> - Moscow city administration open data portal - http://data.mos.ru -
> announced 3 weeks ago. It has about 140 public datasets. Most datasets are
> geodata.
> - Open data "promotion website" - http://opendata.bigovernment.ru it's
> part of russian federal government initiative "Open Government and right
> now it includes documents, ideas, cases and other topics related to the
> opendata
>
> And even more! Last week Russian Ministry of Finances announced
> http://budget.gov.ru  - all-Russia open budget / open spending portal. it
> provides a lot of information about russian budgeting system, provides open
> data about budgets and other budget and spending information.
>
>
> Also we have ongoing process of publishing open data by Russian federal
> government agencies. As it's planned we will have not less then 500
> valueable datasets published till 13 july 2013.
> It's one of the goals for newly established Open data council under
> Government Commision for "Open Government".
>
> Me and other co-founders of our NGO "Informational Culture" are members of
> this council and we keep promoting open data principles.
>
> Sure we still have a lot of issues like:
> 1. Open licenses are not adopted yet and do not conform russian law
> 2. Not so many political open data available (like election results,
> campaign finances and so on)
> 3. Hard to get census data - Russian statistics agency is very far from
> openness.
> 4. We don't have much information about our projects in English so we are
> quite isolated. Sure we read a lot about all open data projects around the
> world, but not so much about Russian projects known outside of Russia.
>
> But future is brighter now.
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>    Ivan Begtin
>
> Director of NGO "Informational Culture"
> email: ibegtin at infoculture.ru
> phone: +7 499 500 96 58, +7 910 426 68 83
> website: http://infoculture.ru
>
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