Information Society and Information Reuse
In the fact that the Russian state declares and does in initiatives on e-government, e-state and information society there is one big topic that is still carefully avoided to this day.
This topic is called “open government data” (open government data), which in the European Union can also be referred to as public sector information.
It is the development of this topic that allows not only to create public services and other information services, but also to involve citizens in the control of state bodies.
What is open data?
Open data is a way of presenting publicly available information in machine-readable form. In the form in which developers can download them into databases, analyze and present in a much more visual and understandable form than how it is done in state systems.
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Open data is not valuable in itself, but because it is used by citizens. This is called "information reuse."
In other words - the information disclosed by the state becomes valuable not when it is published, but when it is used again and this is what is now actively encouraged by government agencies in the European Union, the United States and many other OECD countries.
For example, in the European Union, open data are already part of their program to build an information society and the details, reports and materials they publish on a special section of the website dedicated to this program http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/index_en.htm
In the US, there are several dozen projects created by both government and non-profit organizations, and all of them are aimed specifically at open data.
Their most famous project is Data.gov . This is a huge “data warehouse” that can be used for commercial and non-commercial purposes.
There are also projects of the World Bank ( http://data.worldbank.org/ ), the UN ( http://data.un.org/ ) and many other international structures.
Why do officials need it? The answer to this question is simple.
Contests and competitions
Re-use of information in democratic states allows for competitions for projects and their developers. Dozens of such contests are going around the world now, dozens have already ended and many are planning.
These are Code4America, Apps4Democracy, Apps4Berlin and many others. A list of them can be found, for example, here - http://opengovernmentdata.org/competitions/
For the state it is a very high and important level of publicity. But only for the state, or rather for its representatives, who understand the values ​​of open information and do not appeal that on its basis, citizens will be able to dig out any unpleasant information.
However, in Russia there is still little open data. There is a project OpenGovData.ru , there is another project that is being worked on and soon it will be announced, there is a project Gis-Lab.info and that's it.
No government projects yet. However, the more attention we pay to this topic, the more interesting projects on open data will be created, the greater the chances that the disclosure of data will receive government support.
This topic is called “open government data” (open government data), which in the European Union can also be referred to as public sector information.
It is the development of this topic that allows not only to create public services and other information services, but also to involve citizens in the control of state bodies.
What is open data?
Open data is a way of presenting publicly available information in machine-readable form. In the form in which developers can download them into databases, analyze and present in a much more visual and understandable form than how it is done in state systems.
')
Open data is not valuable in itself, but because it is used by citizens. This is called "information reuse."
In other words - the information disclosed by the state becomes valuable not when it is published, but when it is used again and this is what is now actively encouraged by government agencies in the European Union, the United States and many other OECD countries.
For example, in the European Union, open data are already part of their program to build an information society and the details, reports and materials they publish on a special section of the website dedicated to this program http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/index_en.htm
In the US, there are several dozen projects created by both government and non-profit organizations, and all of them are aimed specifically at open data.
Their most famous project is Data.gov . This is a huge “data warehouse” that can be used for commercial and non-commercial purposes.
There are also projects of the World Bank ( http://data.worldbank.org/ ), the UN ( http://data.un.org/ ) and many other international structures.
Why do officials need it? The answer to this question is simple.
Contests and competitions
Re-use of information in democratic states allows for competitions for projects and their developers. Dozens of such contests are going around the world now, dozens have already ended and many are planning.
These are Code4America, Apps4Democracy, Apps4Berlin and many others. A list of them can be found, for example, here - http://opengovernmentdata.org/competitions/
For the state it is a very high and important level of publicity. But only for the state, or rather for its representatives, who understand the values ​​of open information and do not appeal that on its basis, citizens will be able to dig out any unpleasant information.
However, in Russia there is still little open data. There is a project OpenGovData.ru , there is another project that is being worked on and soon it will be announced, there is a project Gis-Lab.info and that's it.
No government projects yet. However, the more attention we pay to this topic, the more interesting projects on open data will be created, the greater the chances that the disclosure of data will receive government support.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/117344/
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