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

Mon Oct 14 11:00:26 UTC 2013

+1 thanks Andrew.

On 14/10/2013 11:18, Ton Zijlstra wrote:
> Thank you very much for this update Andrew. Really useful, thanks for
> sharing.
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> Ton
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> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Andrew Stott
> <andrew.stott at dirdigeng.com>wrote:
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>> 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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