Open Data Portal (Data.Gov.Ge) (GE0019)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Georgia, Second Action Plan, 2014-16
Action Plan Cycle: 2014
Status:
Institutions
Lead Institution: Data Exchange Agency
Support Institution(s): Ministries and other governmental organizations, e-service provider private entities
Policy Areas
Access to Information, Open DataIRM Review
IRM Report: Georgia End-of-Term Report 2014-2016, Georgia IRM Progress Report 2014-2015
Early Results: Marginal
Design i
Verifiable: Yes
Relevant to OGP Values: Yes
Ambition (see definition): High
Implementation i
Description
The Open Data play key role in open government processes and contemporary models of e- government. The Open Data Portal is the resource for publication of open data (data which can be freely accessed, used and reused) owned by government institutions in the open formats enabling business, nongovernmental and governmental organizations to use those data freely, create applications and e-services based on the data and get economic benefits.
So far public information and open data in Georgia has only had the objective of ensuring transparency and accountability. Along with this important objective, the open data has acquired second very important function to serve as source for to innovation, business development and economic growth of the country. Therefore, it is important that current portal which is mainly navigation web-page for various links to the government pages to be transformed into the real open data portal where open data are available, similarly to the open data web-pages of the UK and the US.
Implementation of open data portal requires close cooperation of all government institutions to collect and subsequently routinely publish open data of all government institutions on a single portal. The open data portals have become basis for successful PPPs in many countries of the world.