Open Data and Citizens Participation: mechanisms to foster interaction between administration, citizens and business

NGO Links project aims to develop a citizen's engagement pattern based on open data inluding administration, citizens and business as well as to analyse the open data policy in Bulgaria to open and responsible governance. The project targets the “suppliers of data”: national, regional and local administrations published data in Open Data Government Portal and “users of data”: NGOs, businesses and general public. In order to attain the objectives set project activities are organized in four main areas: 1) the research activities include economic, statistic and public opinion analysis; 2) the monitoring activities – developing a citizen's engagement pattern based on open data; 3) the sharing activities to exchange experience and knowledge between suppliers and users of open data; 4) the information activities to increase public awareness about open data opportunities to monitor public policies. The expected results are 6 analytical products: methodology for analysis of open data policies; Analysis with recommendations; Public opinion research and report; Citizen's engagement pattern based on open data with the implementation recommendations; Needs analysis to work with open data; Analytical framework for information sharing activities. As a result of all analyses of the project NGO Links will make 3 recommendations in the Open Government Partnership process in the area of the prioritising open data publishing; improve capacity of suppliers and users tor work with data and implementation a citizen's engagement pattern based on open data. The recommendation will be proposed to include in National Action Plan for Open Government Partnership.

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