Web 2.0 tools in Russian Open Government: Political Role of Internet Users Communities
Radomir Bolgov, St.-Petersburg State University Alexey Bunkov, Presidental directorate for application of IT and the development of e-democracy, Moscow Andrei Chugunov, eGovernment Center, St.-Petersburg
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• 51 out 83 heads of Russian regions actively participate on public blogs
• 2012 - 64% of Russian respondents trust information obtained from the Internet (WCIOM polls, April 2012)
• 2008 - 49%
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Features of the e-Participation and Open Government Assessment in Russia
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e-Government indicators in the Russian Federation (UN e-Government Survey 2003 - 2012)
Report’s publication, year 2012 2010 2008 2005 2004 2003
e-Government Development Index 0,7345 0,5136 0,5120 0,5329 0,5017 0,4430
Place of the Russian Federation in the rating 27 59 60 50 52 58
Rating Components: – Online Services * 0,6601 0,3302 0,3344 0,4538 0,3900 0,2230
– Telecommunication Infrastructure 0,6583 0,2765 0,2482 0,1947 0,1852 0,1850
– Human Capital 0,8850 0,9397 0,9589 0,9500 0,9300 0,9200
Источник: United Nations e-Government Surveys. Krems (Austria), May 23, 2013
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Open Government Partnership (OGP) “The Right to Information” (RTI):
Russia received only 60 points out of 150 (2012)
=> Russia stopped accession to the
OGP
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Openness of Russian regions executive authorities’ websites, 2007-2012 (Freedom of Information Foundation)
3438
33 3338
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30
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50
60
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
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n "The Government of the Russian Federation to ensure the following activities prior to July 15, 2013:
- To provide open data access to the Internet contained in the information systems of the Russian Federation public authorities".
(Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on May 7, 2012 No. 601)
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Expert survey, late 2011, e-Gov Center, St.-Petersburg
Experts said that social Internet networks garnered the highest demand from the authorities (G2C) after government sites.
Citizens (C2G) are expected to strive for personal contact with the elected officials.
The most popular social Internet network is "Regionalochka", which is used by 73% of respondents, followed the network GosBook (53% response rate).
About one third of respondents participate in Facebook group “Electronic government in Russia".
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Open Government Projects in Russia
n «Victims of the fires map»
n «Virtual Bell: Help Map»
Sberbank (saved 1 billion $)
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Business and NGOs initiatives to create a platform for interaction between citizens and government
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Public expertise of the official documents
n biggovernment.ru, n Gosuslugi.ru (portal of public services) n E-demokratia.ru n Zakon.government.ru (public discussion of the laws) n sites of public procurement, bidding, ordering n "ACK Open Budget" (developed by the BFT, which simply inform
citizens, without their participation) n Fedstat (official statistics ) n GosBook.ru (a network of experts in the field of public e‑services) ) n Gosdiscuss.ru и др. n Govweb.ru n https://vashkontrol.ru
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n In November 2012, Upper House of Parliament Chairman Valentina Matvienko took the initiative "E-parliament"
n In May 2012 the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation established the creation of information disclosure system about official regulations projects, the results of public consultation and putting of all the listed information on a joint site (Decree…, 2012)
n Russian Public Initiative
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n The Decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On consideration of public citizens’ initiatives with the use of the web site "Russian Public Initiative” adopted in March 2013 (Decree…, 2013) promoted the official web- portal of “Russian Public Initiative” launching (at April 2, 2013)
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The dynamics of civil initiatives’ emergence on “Russian Public Initiative” portal (https://www.roi.ru/), April 2013
Theme/ Level of Governance 1st week 2nd week 3rd week
Theme
Development of Infrastructure 55 130 219
Economic Sphere 27 67 146
Public Administration and Legislation 25 65 160
State Support and Social Services 26 84 172
Ecology and Security 31 61 115
Level of Governance
Federal 114 218 435
Regional 7 26 38
Municipal 7 10 14
Total 128 254 487
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Ways of Zelenograd development discussion (October 2012)
- Witology Platform - Rankings
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n The state program of the Russian Federation "Information Society (2011 - 2020)"
n August 2012, Concept of citizens’ proposals e-presentation mechanism formation for Russian government consideration:
n "all proposals, expressed with the use of specialized e-resources, supported no less than 100 thousand citizens for a year, are subjected to consideration by the working group of the Government Commission for Open Government Coordination.“
n Directive on assessing the effectiveness of the heads of regional executive bodies by the citizens in December 2012
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Another projects
n FixVil Similar projects - Fix-my-Street (US, http://www.fixmystreet.com),
Urbanias (San Paolo, Brazil, www.urbanias.com.br)
n Streetjournal.org n Budget.mos.ru – Moscow’s budget discussion n Rusg2c.ru
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«My territory» (Streetjournal.org): public control on infrastructure
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Problems of Open Government in Russia
n “Potemkin e-villages” n Weak awareness of citizens about the Open
Government activities. Up to 95% of visitors to the Open Government site were not aware of the purpose of the initiative
n Open government in Russia is limited to a discussion of how to make the government better, but without data disclosure
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