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

Mon Mar 4 10:42:48 UTC 2013

Hi Ivan,

Truly impressive! Thank you for sharing. Glad to see Russia leading the way
in releasing meaningful data in useful formats.

Best regards,

Denis Parfenov

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On 3 March 2013 22:21, Baden Appleyard <b.appleyard at ausgoal.gov.au> wrote:

> Thats great news Ivan!
>
> Thanks for letting us know.
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> Cheers
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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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