OPEN DATA IN RUSSIA 2014Trends, practices and projects.

Open budgets and open transport data.

Vitaly Vlasov Open City Foundation

WeGo webinar Ulyanovsk 2014

McKinsey & Company. Open data: Unlocking innovation and performance with liquid information

WHO WE ARE?

• Open City Foundation is non-profit non-government organization which promote open data and using open technologies in city governance, planning, constructing and improvement.

• We organize events (like Hackathons, CityCamps, etc), teach people to use open data and help government to make open data which works.

http://myopencity.org/

ROLE OF OPEN DATA

• Transparency of government

• Governance efficiency

• Innovations for cities

Today Russian Government should ensure unprecedented transparency. Government has huge massive of data which must be opened in structured manner. We know that people are willing to create socially-responsible services and expert community

can help them: indicate direction, train, support.

POLITICAL CHOICE ?

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS• Analytical report on implementation of Presidential Decree of

April 28, 2008 № 607 "On the evaluation of the effectiveness of local government urban districts and municipal areas"

http://www.minregion.ru/activities/monitor/msu_evaluation/

33,2

34,5

2009 2010

102,6

92,8

2009 2010

50,739,6

2009 2010

13,2

13,7

2009 2010

Inefficient use of money in 2010 = 180 billion rubles

Municipal areas administration Healthcare Education Housing and

communal services

Government Expert community Society

Transparency Participation

Collaboration

MODEL THAT WORKS

LAWS• Russian Constitution: articles 29 and 24 «Rights on

information»

• Federal Law from February 9, 2009 №8-ФЗ «About access to information about activities of government and municipalities» (with changes from July 2013)

• Federal Law from July, 27 2006 №149-ФЗ «About information, information technologies and data protection» (with changes from July 2013)

EXECUTION

COUNCIL ON OPEN DATAhttp://open.gov.ru/

DATA.GOV.RU

OPEN DATA OF PARLIAMENTAccessible via API (http://api.duma.gov.ru/)

FEDERAL MINISTRIES

http://mvd.ru/opendata/

CITIES / REGIONS

• http://data.gov.spb.ru/ (St.Petersburg) • http://data.mos.ru/ (Moscow) • http://data.ulgov.ru/ (Ulyanovsk Region) • http://opendata71.ru/ (Tula Region) • http://opendata.permkrai.ru/opendata/ (Perm Region) • https://www.krd.ru/opendata/ (Krasnodar Region) • etc.

MOSCOW

259 datasets 28 apps

http://data.mos.ru/

ST-PETERSBURGhttp://data.gov.spb.ru/

HOW GOVERNMENT PROMOTE OPEN DATA

• Moscow Hackathon • Open Piter Mobile (St.Petersburg)

http://www.hackathon.spb.ru/

2013Winner Culture site’s guide of Ulyanovsk

2012Winner Public transport online timetable

OPEN DATA IN TRANSPORT

• Project of World Bank in Russia (as a part of National Urban Transport Project)

• In collaboration with Andrew Stott (UK) and James Wong (USA)

Study included: • Using «Readiness Assessment Tool»

World Bank’s methodology • Interviews with data users and data

owners • Study of authorities, data flows in

government

Transportation Data

Traditional sources • GIS base-layers • Traffic counts • Transit vehicle locations • Toll and Fare-gate counts !New technology provides new data

• On-street and garage parking space occupancy

• Bike-share station activity • Crowd-sourced incident alerts • Trip records for public/shared transport

(taxi, bike-share etc)

What does open transport data enable?

• Public-facing transport applications like journey planners, real-time travel information

• Transport planning and analysis applications • Technology to support new modes of transport (carshare,

bikeshare, dynamic dispatch, etc.) • Third party involvement in transport information provision • Freedom from proprietary data management systems and

services • Informal planning coordination among public agencies

• Final report has not yet been published officially. • In final report scenarios of using open transport data have

been analyzed • 8 strategic recommendations for St.Petersburg’s City

Administration and 4 recommendations for Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation have been done

• Described current situation with Open Transport Data in Russia

• Potential barriers and perceived risks has been investigated • Included information about data users and data owners

expectations and available policies

WHICH DATA IS READY TO PUBLISH• Public transport data

Organizer of transportation and Committee of Transport • Metro data

Metropolitan Organization • Traffic data

Directorate of Traffic Management • Road-street network information

Committee of Transport Infrastructure • Parking

Committee of Transport Infrastructure • Delay of public transport

Organizer of transportation and Committee of Transport • Traffic restrictions

State Administrative and Technical Inspection

TRANSPORT PORTAL

!!

http://transport.orgp.spb.ru http://transport.orgp.spb.ru/Portal/transport/api/gtfs

50 000 installs

Data (stops, routes, real-time position of buses, trams, trolleys) published in GTFS (via API) on demand only. Used by 10+ apps.

• QR-codes on the stops

• forecast of transportation arrival

• real-time timetable

Other projects: • e-transport agregator: http://xn--80ajzeedeffh.xn--p1ai/ • WikiRoutes http://wikiroutes.info/ • http://rusavtobus.ru/

OPEN BUDGET

LENOBL 2014

http://lenobl2014.ru/

UNDERSTANDING DATA

• Program • Subprograms • Articles • Type of spending • Chapter • Subchapter • City Commitee • Code of one budget

transaction looks like 51 1 0016 111 0902

OPEN REFINE

OPEN SPENDING PLATFORMhttps://openspending.org/lenobl2014

http://lenobl2014.ru/

SUBPROGRAMS

ARTICLES

ARTICLES

RESULTS• People are interested and want to participate but budget data are

not clear and transparent. • What people (not expert) can do with data? • Open budget data: difficult to get, nothing to understand

OTHER PROJECTS• Open Budget Council http://budget.open.gov.ru/ • Open Budget of Russia http://budget4me.ru • Official Open Budget of Moscow http://budget.mos.ru/ • Official Open Budget of Leningrad Region http://budget.lenobl.ru • Open Government contracts data base http://clearspending.ru/ • Visual Budget http://visualbudget.ru/

PRINCIPLES FOR FUTURE WORK

• PVAT - Public Value Assessment Tool of CTG (Albany, NY)

• Increase Transparency and Accountability

• Apply Citizen Knowledge Through Participation to Government Service

• Encourage Collaboration and Innovation

• Institutionalize an Open data Culture

Increase Transparency and Accountability by: • Presenting in a clear manner departments' information about programs and objectives; and • Continuing to release open data in a timely manner by proactively making it available online in

consistent, open formats, while ensuring accuracy and protecting privacy, security, and confidentiality. Apply Citizen Knowledge Through Participation to Government Service by:

• Maintaining commitment to collecting and responding to public input on Open Government policies and programs in innovative ways; and 

• Continuing to create opportunities for public participation in problem identification and idea generation. Encourage Collaboration and Innovation by:

• Enhancing collaboration with other Federal agencies, the private sector, and other non-government organizations in providing mission-related services; and

• Enhancing efforts to stimulate innovation from govenment's data and information. Institutionalize an Open DOT Culture by:

• Encouraging commitment to Open Government principles at all levels; • Encouraging a cross-modal, interdisciplinary, collaborative, and engaged workforce through

enhanced communication, governance, and guidance regarding Open Government tools and programs; and

• Maintaining commitment to data-driven DOT decision-making, by increasing employee awareness of open data and information. 

Public engagment model

Please feel free to ask any questions about

open data in Russia and ex-USSR countries by e-mail.

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inxaoc@gmail.com

twitter : @OpenCityRu

http://myopencity.org/

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Sincerely, Vitaly Vlasov