OPEN GOVERNMENT IN KAZAKHSTAN - Directly participating in the
states development process - Capability of putting forward
proposals on improvement and reforming the state EFFICIENCY AND
ACCOUNTABILITY - Open budgets - Open public procurement Blog
platform of government agencies executives blogs.egov.kz Health
Education Transport & Communications Social welfare, etc.
20162015 - Knowing and applying the existing laws and regulations -
Participating in law-making process 2 LEGAL ACTS DIALOGUE
BUDGETPETITIONS
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OPEN DATA: PERFORMANCE INDEX - 1United Kingdom97% 2Denmark83%
3France80% 4Finland73% 5Australia72% OPEN DATA INDEX, 97
countriesPOPULAR DATASETS Legislation Data on transport, including
geo-data National budget Government spending National statistics
Election results Meteorology Open Knowledge Foundation 3
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OPEN DATA: EXAMPLES TRANSPORT OPEN DATA, LONDON > 500 apps
> 5000 persons work in Apps Industry Profitability ratio = 58:1
London Transport Agency ceased issuing its own apps LAND OPEN DATA,
UK Revenue: 76 million Net profit: 25 million 86% of all sales fall
within subscriptions > 19,000 estate agents AGRARIAN AND
METEOROLOGICAL OPEN DATA, US * According to McKinsey research,
international experts evaluate the effect of open data worldwide at
USD 35 trillion Crop yield data for 60 years period. Meteorology
data from > 1 million locations in US 14 TB data on quality of
soil Considerable increment in profit for farmers
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LEGISLATION Competences: authorized agency: list of open data;
procedure for provision thereof central government agency local
governments The countrys readiness for open data was analyzed based
on 7 factors World Bank methodology Leadership Institutional
readiness Availability of data and demand for data Availability of
data users communities Funding ICT infrastructure and skills To the
Draft Law On Informatization, such concepts as open data and open
data web portal were added Legal Framework I
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NATIONAL OPEN DATA PORTAL OF KAZAKHSTAN Was launched in 2013
2014 integration and optimization: 850 data within 217 datasets
Application Programming Interface (API) 10 apps published (of 24
participating in competition) 6
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Making use of Open API in GA will enable: Uniform authorization
between eGov & GA information systems Verifying and signing
with digital signature Verifying licenses and authorization
documents Submitting customs declarations OPEN API 7 Open data
portal API:
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CURRENT OPEN DATA LIFECYCLE INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES
Questionnaire surveys of citizens/businesses DRAWING UP DATA LISTS
AS PER ANALYSIS AND SURVEYS REQUESTING FOR DATA WITH FORMAL LETTER
RECEIVING THE DATA PROCESSING, STRUCTURING MIGRATING DATA TO
MACHINE-READABLE FORMAT PLACING THE DATA TO API PUBLISHING THE
DATASETS ON THE PORTAL DEVELOPERS' CREATING APPS AND SERVICES
SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDBACK ON THE PORTAL ROUNDTABLES CEMINARES MEETINGS
Non-structured data, different formats 8
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LIFECYCLE AFTER ADOPTION OF THE LAW DRAWING UP DATA LISTS AS
PER ANALYSIS AND SURVEYS PUBLISHING THE DATA ON PORTAL SERVICES AND
APPS 9 INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES Questionnaire surveys of
citizens/businesses SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDBACK ON THE PORTAL ROUNDTABLES
CEMINARES MEETINGS
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C 9 / CONTESTS, HACKATHONS Participants: 1500 students 6 teams
on Open Data Special nomination from NIT: an app for exploring
schools in the neighborhood School location addresses Safety in the
neighborhood Latest criminal activity in vicinity HACK DAY ALMATY
CONTEST among students for apps development Participants: 24
students 1 st position: Kindergartens: catalogue of Astana
kindergartens for parents wishing to select a kindergarten for
their child Location on map Contacts Comments and feedback 10
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ROUNDTABLE FOR GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WITH UN AND MINISTRY FOR
INVESTMENTS AND DEVELOPMENT 11 Recommendations: In attendance were:
Representatives from 11 government agencies UN DESA Open Data
Enterprise Innovation solutions of San Francisco Identifying
stakeholders and key users of data Optimizing the data capture
process Obtaining feedback (polling, surveys) Separating between
confidential information and open data Encouraging (stimulating)
government agencies Working at quality rather than quantity
Cooperation with private sector (Establishing priorities with
businesses is critical for high profitability)
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OPEN DATA FOR BUSINESS ROUND TABLE CENTER FOR OPEN DATA
ENTERPRISE Around 50 companies attended, representing the following
sectors: Agriculture, Health, Construction Information Technologies
Barriers Lack of understanding the importance of government
agencies open data Lack of distinct limits in definition of
confidentiality Government agencies fear to show real situation
Bureaucratic hurdles Government agencies distrust towards public
organizations and private sector Statistical data on epidemiologic
diseases with breakdown by regions: chronology or localization of
diseases outburst Macroeconomic indicators with breakdown by
districts and rural counties Information on construction developers
(whether or no a developer has the license for attraction of funds,
and whether or not it is included in the list of mala fide
developers); 12 In the end of Roundtable, the decision was made to
establish a group of businesses experts on open data development in
Kazakhstan Data requested
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FURTHER DEVELOPMENT PLAN Continuing actively working with
stakeholders: GA, businesses and citizens Developing the Open
Government portal and implementing all the portal components
interoperation Entering international Open Government Partnership
organization (65 countries) Budget Laws & Regulations Diologue
Petitions Open data 13
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OPEN DATA: EFFECT FROM USE Load on government agencies Public
awareness level Open, accessible, and competitive economy Citizens
and businesses expenditures on data search Peoples quality of life
through the use of new apps Open, accessible, and competitive
economy optimization of business 14