Increasing the quality and quantity of available open data (ROTMR0003)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Action plan – Timișoara, Romania, 2022 – 2024
Inception Report Summary: Inception Report – Action plan – Timișoara, Romania, 2022 – 2024
Commitment Start: Apr 2022
Commitment End: Apr 2024
Institutions involved:
- Municipality of Timisoara
- Banat IT
- Dan Damian
- Smart City Association
Primary Policy Area:
Primary Sector:
OGP Value:
- Access to information
- Civic Participation
- Public Accountability
- Technology and Innovation for Transparency and Accountability
Inception Report Summary
Verifiable: Yes
Relevance to OGP Values: Yes
The commitment is a continuation of ongoing practice in line with existing legislation, policies or requirements.
The commitment activities is a positive change to a process, practice or policy but will not generate a binding or institutionalized change across government or specific institution(s).
Description
Commitment ID
ROTMR0003
Commitment Title
Increasing the quality and quantity of available open data
Problem
1. Development decisions are not not always based on data
2. Valuable support and involvement from IT community is lost
3. Without data we don't know
Status quo
Romanian public sector is not performing well and we generally avoid to measure this performance in order to hide the true level of "success".
Action
Overall objective: Increasing the quality and quantity of available open data
Actions:
A 3.1. Exchange of experience with other cities related to the usage of open data
A 3.2. Census of public data held by public institutions and other relevant stakeholders (e.g. universities)
A 3.3. Identification and publication of 10 high value open data sets and standardization of their structure
A 3.4. Guide for periodic identification of high value data, publication and maintenance of the published data
A 3.5. Encourage the tech community to use the open data to create city apps
A 3.6. Upgrade of the current data on budget, expenses and contracting
How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem described above?
1. Better understanding of city state and urban development progress
2. Involved IT community which is creating city solutions based on provided data
What long-term goal as identified in your Open Government Strategy does this commitment relate to?
Long-term vision:
"Timisoara, as an inspiration for other local communities, is the city where public administration and civil society together create opportunities for any citizen to be involved in public decisions on quality of life and community development."
This commitment will related to:
1. Timisoara, as an inspiration for other local communities (Timisoara is th emost advacned city on open data topic)
2. public administration and civil society together create opportunities
Primary Policy Area
Digital Governance, Open Data
Primary Sector
Policing & Corrections, Public Services (general)
What OGP value is this commitment relevant to?
| Access to information | open date provide access to structured information |
| Civic Participation | by involving IT community to create solutions based on provided open data |
| Public Accountability | as the published open data is focusing on relevant information related to public institutions activity |
| Technology and Innovation for Transparency and Accountability | CKAN open data portal upgrade, city solutions creation and involvement of IT community |