Government of Moldova E-Government Center

Open Data, Transparency and Good Governance

MOLDOVA EXPERIENCE@STELA MOCAN

E-GOVERNMENT CENTER/GOVERNMENT CIO

#OGPDUBLIN, EUROPEAN REGIONAL MEETING, MAY 8-9TH, 2014

Open Data: The NEW NORMAL for Governments

Economic & Social Value

Public Service Delivery

Government Transparency & Accountability

Strategic Program for Governance Technological Modernization 2011-2020

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Interoperability, reuse,

mobility, analytics

Moldova Open Data Approach

Apr2011 Feb 2014 Apr 2014Dec 2011 Apr 2012 Dec 2012 Apr 2013

734 datasets3090 resources

Joined OGP Approved Law on PSI reuse

Open Data Initiative since 2011

Institutionalizing Open Data in Moldova

April 2011 – Open Data Directive Nr. 1, signed by Prime Minister, ministries to release at least 3 datasets monthly;

Slow pace of publishing dataFebruary 2012 Open Data Directive Nr.2 signed by Prime Minister, establishing an Open Data Focal Points in each ministry, responsible for publishing open data on www.date.gov.md

December 2012 – Parliament passed the Law on public sector information reuse, which set the conditions for accessing and reusing public sector information (open data license).

Apps Developers

Journalists

Development Partners

Private Sector

Open Data Ecosystem

Open Data: Challenges

Supply Side:• resistance to opening public data for reuse • Lots of data is on paper, low level of data digitization• lots of public data available for visualizations, but not for

bulk download and reuse free of charge • Most of structured public data is held by state enterprises,

which offer information as a paid service• Lack of open data standards and data managements

skills among public servants

Demand Side:• insufficient awareness of the value of open data and

limited skills to use it among journalists, business, CSOs

Data Journalism BootcampBOOST training

Open Government Day Hackathon

Open Data Knowledge Exchanges

Open Innovation Week, May 2012

ABC of Open DataAwareness & Communication

egov.md Facebook.com/datedeschise

@eGovCenterMD@DateGovMD

Open Data: Immediate Priorities

Governance e-Transformation Action Plan 2014

• Open Data Policy, Open Data by Default Framework

• Government Interoperability Platform: - set of standards, will publish national sets of classifiers- allow publishing of information exchange through interoperability

platform directly on date.gov.md

• Open Contracting

• Improved capability of government and civil society in data management and reuse