The Verkhovna Rada and the Ministry of Internal Affairs topped the open data quality rating – study
27 March 08:49
Only 44% – this is the current open data quality indicator in Ukraine, which is determined by openness by default, efficiency, clarity, accessibility, and comparability. The Opendatabot platform has analyzed how the quality of government data has changed in recent years, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports.
Currently, the Open Data Quality Rating is 44.21%, and compared to last year, there has been some improvement. However, this is still worse than it was before the full-scale invasion: back then, the open data index in Ukraine was 57.6%.
Russia’s invasion set Ukraine back several years in terms of transparency and accessibility of public information in one day. As you know, in the early days, the state closed registries to protect information from the enemy.
After a break, some government agencies – data managers – began to gradually open them, and this has an impact on improving the data openness index.
Publication of which data has improved the openness index
The National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service started publishing a list of civil service vacancies.
The Ministry of Education and Science has started publishing the Register of Educational Entities;
The NACP resumed publishing declarations.
At the same time, the State Judicial Administration has stopped publishing judicial statistics on the open data portal, but it is available on the website of the State Judicial Administration itself.
Who discloses data the least and the most
The State Tax Service currently has the lowest score among central government agencies, according to the Open Data Bot, with 0.2%. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the Tax Service has stopped publishing all data sets except for VAT refunds. However, even this information is aggregated for a certain period.
The Pension Fund, the Motor (Transport) Insurance Bureau, the Ministry of Social Policy, and the Ministry of Economy also remain quite closed.
At the same time, the Verkhovna Rada, the State Judicial Administration, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs are the most conscientious in their compliance with the law and publishing data.
The CHESNO movement once again assessed the openness of parliamentary committees
The results of the monitoring of transparency of the Verkhovna Rada committees for 2024 were presented by the CHESNO movement in February.
According to the monitoring, the most transparent committees were the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on Digitalization, and the Committee on Energy. They systematically publish transcripts of their meetings, provide access to video recordings and decisions.
Instead, in 2024, seven parliamentary committees were included in the anti-rating, receiving less than half of the points according to the CHESNO openness criteria.
The Committee on National Security and Intelligence received the lowest score. It does not publish audio and video recordings of its meetings, as well as transcripts and minutes, limiting itself to publishing the agenda, which appears on the website about a month after the meeting. At the same time, in late October, the committee also launched a Facebook page, which briefly reports on its decisions.
The situation with the Committee on Law Enforcement is roughly the same: it does not publish any documentation from its meetings, only posting information about its decisions on its website and Facebook. Other committees in the anti-rating are the Transport, Tax, and Agrarian Committees, the Foreign Policy Committee, and the Legal Policy Committee. Their common problem is that information about meetings on the website is not updated systematically, which violates the law, and video and audio materials from the meetings are often missing.
