Overview of the open government & open data initiative in Macedonia ADDING BUSINESS VALUE TO THE OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA DEJAN DAMJANOVIC, MANAGING DIRECTOR, REAKTIV WORLD BANK INVESTMENT CLIMATE REFORM CONFERENCE TBILISI,

AGENDA  What is OGP?  Macedonian approach  Challenges to make it happen  Microsoft OGDI and the suggested Reaktiv concept  State Market Inspection demo

WHAT IS THE GLOBAL OGP?

MACEDONIAN APPROACH - GOALS Key Impact Benchmark Added value to public sector information and benefits for the private sector and citizens Activities Establish the websitewww.opendata.gov.mk Development of new business models from the open-type data (Open data -the engine of the economic development) Prioritizing opening of data requested and identified by the stakeholders and the citizens Using the inter-operable services as guidance in opening data Plan and monitor the implementation of the plans for opening the state institutions information Analysis of the legal framework that provides the concept of open data and determine the need for eventual changes

MACEDONIAN APPROACH - BACKGROUND COMPLETE REGISTRATION IN 4 HOURS Is everything really EASILY ACCESSIBLE? Are individual projects ENOUGH?

MACEDONIAN APPROACH - CHALENGES Legal Definition of open data Protection of private data Commercial usage by private sector Organizational Overreliance on human resources Inter-institutional interoperability Technical Embedded systems Lack of common standards Single or unified platform Financial feasibility

 SINGLE DATA FILING PLATFORM HOSTED BY THE MINISTRY OF IT AND ADMINISTRATION  INDIVIDUAL DATA ADAPTERS FOR 20 INSTITUTIONS  DATA STRUCTURING AND DISTRIBUTION IN OPEN STANDARDS  EVERYTHING IS IN THE CLOUD SUGGESTED CONCEPT

OPEN DATA SHARING PROCESS DEVELOPERS / PUBLIC Use services and API’s to create own applicationsBrowse and preview data MINISTRY OF IT AND ADMINISTRATION (MICROSOFT’S OGDI AZURE PLATFORM) Structure and organizeCatalogue and display INSTITUTIONS (REAKTIV’S DATA ADAPTERS) Manual creation of files (XLS, CSV,… ) Upload of filesDirect data collection

DEMO Macedonian State Market Inspectorate

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