Open Data in Serbian Government Institutions

Milovan ŠuvakovInstitute of Physics Belgrade www.ipb.ac.rsObservatory of Social Innovations www.odi.rs

Why Open Data?What is Open Data? Difference between #opendata & #foiDefinition: availability, access, reuse, redistribution, universal participation

Potential benefits:Transparency and democratic control

Improved or new private products and services

Improved efficiency/effectiveness of government services

Impact measurement of policies

Data-driven innovations

New knowledge from data

Major Obstacles/ChallengesTechnical: limited IT capabilities, server infrastructure, security,...

Legal: missing (overlapping) jurisdictions

“Philosophical”: attitudes toward data (sharing)

Open Data Readiness Assessment (ODRA)

UNDP, WB

eUprava

ODWG

New portal

Law change

2y projecthttp://www.rs.undp.org/content/serbia/en/home/library/democratic_governance/open-data-readiness-assesment-.html

Good Practice Examples

Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (109 datasets) http://opendata.mpn.gov.rs

Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection (13 datasets)

Environmental Protection Agency (10 datasets)

Public Procurement Office (5 datasets)

Ministry of Mining and Energy (5 datasets)

Medicines and Medical Devices Agency of Serbia (3 datasets)Ministry of Interior (1 dataset)Source: http://data.gov.rs

Ministry of Interior

1 dataset:

Belgrade road accidents 2015: time, position (gps), type, description; 12873 rows

Formats: xls, csv

Medicines and Medical Devices Agency of Serbia

3 datasets: medicines market data, approved clinical studies (200 rows), generic names of medicines Formats: xls

Public Procurement Office

5 datasets

Formats: csv, zipped csv

Ministry of Mining and Energy

5 datasets

Formats: xml, json

Environmental Protection AgencyPortal: http://data.sepa.gov.rs/(based on DKAN - open source platform.)

Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection

http://www.data.poverenik.rs/ (CKAN based portal)

Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development

Portal: http://opendata.mpn.gov.rs/71 datasets: all levels of education + R&DFormats: csv, xls, json

Open Data in Serbian Laws

Low on R&D: data on researchers, projects and institutions

“...Podaci iz registara su otvoreni podaci, javno dostupni na internet prezentaciji Ministarstva u mašinski obradivom obliku za korišćenje i dalje objavljivanje.”

“...Data from the registry are open data, publicly available on Ministry web page, in computer readable format, free for reuse and redistribution.”

Available R&D Data

Institutions, projects, financial data:http://opendata.mpn.gov.rs/get.php?dataset=nio&lang=sr&term=humanhttp://opendata.mpn.gov.rs/get.php?dataset=nio_finansije&lang=sr&term=human

http://opendata.mpn.gov.rs/get.php?dataset=nid_projekti&lang=sr&term=humanhttp://opendata.mpn.gov.rs/get.php?dataset=nid_projekti_finansije&lang=sr&term=human

5 year project reports: http://izvestaji.mpn.gov.rs/izvestaji/

Missing: researchers, results in more details

Conclusions

Serbia is #48 out of 97 coutries in the 2014 Global Open Data Index http://index.okfn.org/place/2014/

ODRA: Serbia is in a good position to move forward with an Open Data Initiative

Strategy for the Development of e-Government and other strategic documents announce improvements.

What can we do?