Open government and open data in Romania Romania

Open government and open data in Romania

Romania in OGP • 2011 - Romania adhered to the OGP • 2012 - Romania approved the first National Action Plan • 2013 - Prime Minister’s Office became the co-ordinator of OGP in Romania • 2014 - the second NAP is approved • 2015 - Romania is elected in the Steering Committee of the OGP

Government and Civil society A very good collaboration with civil • society focused on changing the public administration culture • 8 co-chaired training sessions covering the whole country • Co-organizing 6 hackathons focused on the use of open data • OGP Club is organized monthly to as a space of interaction on OGP subjects • December 2015 - a new ministry for civic dialogue and public consultation

Open data in Romania • 2013 - Open data portal data. gov. ro - was launched • Over 300 data sets released • 2014 - Romania ranked 16 th in Open Data Index • 2015 - Romania ranked 13 th in Open Data Index

Few examples of data visualization

Healthcare open data • Visualizing historical open data related with life expectancy, demographics and main cause of death

Healthcare open data • Visualizing historical open data related with hospitals distribution and the number of hospital places

Geographical open data • Visualizing “ghost cities” of Romania

Geographical open data • Mapping the postal codes

Next • January - February 2016: OGP Awards Romania • Focused on applications and data visualizations based on open data from public procurement and health sector

Thank you!

ogp. gov. ro radu. puchiu@gov. ro