The meeting was held in Moscow on July 15, bringing together representatives of the interested federal executive agencies, who reported on the implementation of Presidential Executive Order No. 601 of May 7, 2012, about which sets of data have been disclosed by Government agencies and future plans.
Under the Executive Order, federal ministries and agencies were tasked with disclosing 500 datasets by July 15, 2013. Over 1,000 sets of data have been made publicly available to date. A number of websites and services have been created in Moscow using this data, including websites on the Moscow roads, the judicial system, housing and utilities, and taxis. These websites attract over 10,000 visitors a day.
Deputy Minister of Economic Development Sergei Belyakov said that 49 federal executive agencies have already created open data websites and are proactive in providing content for them. The Federal Service for State Statistics (Rosstat), the Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation and the Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport are in the lead in terms of data disclosure among federal ministries and agencies; the Moscow Government, and the governments of the Amur and Ulyanovsk regions are the leading ones among Russia’s regions, while Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Krasnodar and Perm topped the list of local government entities.
Mikhail Abyzov said that the Federal Service for State Statistics was the first to publish a major dataset in a machine-readable format by making an .csv file available for download. Data on the latest national census has also been released, including information on the population size of Russia, federal districts, Russian regions, municipalities, municipal districts, rural towns and villages.
At the end of the meeting Mikhail Abyzov said that the Government will remain actively involved in efforts to disclose data, including the creation of a single national open data website and the development of a plan to implement the Open Data Charter in Russia.
Source: Open Government
