According to the established tradition, Infoculture annually joins the international project
Open Data Day . In early March, in honor of Open Data Day, meetings, lectures and hackathons are held around the world, the purpose of which is to promote the concept of openness and accessibility of data. This year has already scheduled 288 events around the world.
On March 3-4, in the space of
Blagosfera, we will hold an “Open Data Day” in Moscow.

We invite programmers, designers, analysts, journalists, civil society activists, government officials, employees of non-profit organizations, students, scientists and anyone interested in the topic of open data to participate.
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We have prepared a very rich program of lectures, round tables and master classes. Invited to tell about their experience those speakers who really have something to share. A detailed program is already available
on the event website . We will tell about the most important points that await the participants.
The event will open with a plenary discussion on the topic “The Future of Open Data”
Mikhail Abyzov, Minister of the Russian Federation, Ivan Begtin (Information Culture), Sergey Alimbekov (FRII), Ivan Zassoursky (Association of Internet Publishers), Vladimir Gerasimov (Interfax) will take part in it. Moderator - Vasily Burov (Information Culture). Panelists will discuss the most pressing issues of the industry:
- Open data in Russia: achievements and failures of five years of active work;
- Closed open data: why there are problems with the discovery of data on ecology, education, health care;
- The place of open data in the digital economy: new requirements and challenges;
- Development of infrastructure and open data market: whether special institutions are needed, how to build interaction between the state and society.
After the plenary discussion, parallel work will begin in 6 thematic areas.
State data
This year the direction “State data” has turned out to be one of the most saturated. Speakers' speeches, among which there are many representatives of state bodies, are devoted to implemented projects, description of internal work processes, technical aspects of working with data and other details that are not usually written on the websites:
- “How to produce data, not smoke”, Ministry of Culture of Russia
- "Hidden data", ANO "Information Culture"
- "Proposals for the formation of approaches to the methodological and organizational support of activities in the field of open data", the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of Russia
- “Open labor market and employment data”, Rostrud
- “Anonymization of data as a way to obtain information of limited access”, Analytical Center “Forum”, Open Government Project Center
- “Data on state finances: from quantity to quality”, the draft state expenditures, ANO “Information Culture”
- “Officials’ declarations: how the lack of a disclosure standard discredited the idea of ​​transparency ”, the draft was the Declarer, Transparency International - Russia,
- "Integration of data on regional and municipal budgets", "Krista",
- "The open corpus of texts of Russian legislation", Institute for Law Enforcement at the European University at St. Petersburg
- “Placed? Appreciated. Ratings of the publication of open data by the federal executive bodies ", Design Center" Infometer "
- "Open and almost open data on the infrastructure of the Internet", RosKomSvoboda.
Business
Speakers will consider cases of creating commercial projects based on open data. They will tell how companies create the infrastructure for data disclosure. Let's talk about the monetization of projects based on open data - representatives of APICrafter, HERE Technologies, Geomatrix, JetBrains will share their experience. Representatives from the International Network Analysis Laboratory will share their Coca-Cola data analysis experience.
Date journalism
Media experts from TASS, RBC, Yandex, Mail.ru will talk about how they work with the data:
- How to find data for materials and media projects?
- Common mistakes in data analysis and how to avoid them?
- How to turn data into a media product and attract an audience?
- Workshops on data visualization in Excel (yes in it) and in Figma.
Openness of NGOs
Experts will discuss the importance of data disclosure in the non-profit sector. Within the framework of the course, there will be two large round tables “Results of NGOs as open data” and “Standards of information transparency of NGOs. Application ”with the participation of representatives of the Presidential Grants Foundation and the Donors Forum. In addition, Infoculture experts will tell you how we analyzed the data on NPOs during the development of the “Open NPOs” project and what errors we found in official data sources.
City data
The speakers of the thematic area will be specialists who solve problems of the urban environment from different angles: analyze data, create urban services and train specialists in this field. Section experts will talk about the practical application of open data:
- Open data in the Chronotope platform,
- Geoinformational analysis in the formation of a comfortable urban environment of Moscow,
- Research based on open data and GIS,
- In-depth training in the quality of the urban environment,
- Where to find public transport,
- The use of open data and their lack of traffic in the market, supervised by traffic police,
- Analysis of social networks and the program "My Street"
- Satellite data for cities, greening, borders vs real size of built-up areas, monitoring changes.
Education
At the round table, experts will discuss the use of open data in education. The topic is truly endless. After all, firstly, there is data in any education - school, preschool, higher, secondary vocational, additional, online, artistic, sports, corporate, etc. Secondly, this is any data - from the location of educational institutions, personnel, structure specializations, courses and schedules, students, graduates, public procurement, biographies and academic merit of teachers, participation in competitions prior to employment in the specialty, open regional statistics, research results, citation indices and tional rankings.
Participants are also waiting for the lectures “Transparent education” and “Is it possible to make libraries open?”.
And what besides lectures and master classes?
In addition to the lecture program itself, we prepared for the participants of the Open Data Day an exhibition of infographics, opportunities for networking and communication, as well as a raffle from our partners: JetBrains, publishing house MIF, Skyeng School of English.
You can get acquainted with the detailed program and register
on the event website . Hurry, registrations are active and very few places are left.
The event’s live webcast will be available on the
youtube channel of the Infoculture .
PS We are waiting for you at the weekend, but for now to tune in, we suggest watching a video about how Open Data Day passed last year .