End of Commitment Report – Increasing the quality and quantity of available open data

Name of Evaluator

Calin Rus and Corina Tursie

Email

[email protected], [email protected]

Member Name

Timișoara, Romania

Action PlanAction plans are at the core of a government’s participation in OGP. They are the product of a co-creation process in which government and civil society jointly develop commitments to open governmen... Title

Action plan – Timișoara, Romania, 2022 – 2024

CommitmentOGP commitments are promises for reform co-created by governments and civil society and submitted as part of an action plan. Commitments typically include a description of the problem, concrete action...

Increasing the quality and quantity of available open dataBy opening up data and making it sharable and reusable, governments can enable informed debate, better decision making, and the development of innovative new services. Technical specifications: Polici...

Title

Increasing the quality and quantity of available open data

Action

Overall objective: Increasing the quality and quantity of available open data. Actions:

• A 3.1. Exchange of experience with other cities related to the usage of open data.
• A 3.2. Census of public data held by public institutions and other relevant stakeholders (e.g., universities).
• A 3.3. Identification and publication of 10 high-value open data sets and standardization of their structure.
• A 3.4. Guide for periodic identification of high-value data, publication, and maintenance of the published data.
• A 3.5. Encourage the tech community to use the open data to create city apps.
• A 3.6. Upgrade of the current data on budget, expenses, and contracting

Problem

1. Development decisions are not always based on data.
2. Valuable support and involvement from the IT community is lost.
3. Without data, we don’t know.

1.1 What was the overall level of progress in the commitment implementation at the time of this assessment?

Not started

Provide a brief explanation of your answer:

This commitment was not implemented as planned. There is a dedicated platform for open data, but it has not been updated recently.

However, the internal digitalization transformation the Municipality has gone through in the past few years allows for a better collection and processing of data in all areas of public services offered. This creates premises for new data sets to be published in a proper format that ensures reusability.

Furthermore, the data portal is planned to be updated as part of a project funded under the European Data Space for Smart Communities Program. Szeged Timișoara Data Space (STiDS), the project combines mobility and environmental data into a common data platform, enabling better-informed decisions that benefit both domains. By connecting diverse data sources, the project addresses multiple urban challenges simultaneously, demonstrating the transformative potential of data sharing.