The head of the ANO "Information Culture" includes the open

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According to Ivan Begtin, the advantage of open data is that projects in this area are relatively simple and inexpensive, but require a systematic approach and desire, not a lot of money: "Regarding typing, again, there are a large number of open and free open source tools in the world, such as CKAN, DKAN, JKAN, Dataverse, with the help of which it is easy to create at least data catalogs. A simple example is the recently created open data portal Open Data Armenia based on CKAN (data.opendata.am). To create it, our team did not need much time or money, just desire."

data portals of the UN (data.un.org), estonia whatsapp number database the World Bank (data.worldbank.org), which are used everywhere, as well as the Hugging Face portal, where developers post data and AI models based on them, as examples of iconic projects. In Russia, according to Ivan Begtin, a non-governmental project is the "Goszatraty" project (clearspending.ru), where data on government procurement is collected and disclosed and large volumes of open data are provided, and of Russian government agencies, only the Federal Tax Service of Russia and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation can be cited as examples of government agencies that disclose a lot of data.

Sergei Lipov believes that the VTsIOM-Navigator project, which was announced on December 21, 2023, by VTsIOM General Director Valery Fedorov at a press conference dedicated to summing up the results of the year, may well become a landmark for Russia, since it involves creating an objective and complete picture of public opinion based on a large amount of data.

The main module of "VTsIOM-Navigator" is a constantly updated database of surveys, starting from 1992. The authors see the target audience of this service as expert practitioners, representatives of government agencies, the media, as well as anyone interested in social processes and public opinion. In 2024, they will be supplemented by thematic collections, as well as exit poll data and electoral forecasts from different years.

"The assessment of open data is one of the criteria for compiling the rating of openness of government bodies conducted by the Accounts Chamber. In the report for 2023, the level of openness of Roskomnadzor is defined as high," the press service of Roskomnadzor told ComNews. "Roskomnadzor posts 26 sets of open data on its corporate website. This is mainly information from registers that the agency maintains in various areas of activity. Statistics on views and downloads indicate their demand. In 30 days, Roskomnadzor's open data was viewed 26 thousand times, downloaded 14 thousand times."