Open Rural Development Data (GR0066)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Greece Action Plan 2019-2022
Action Plan Cycle: 2019
Status: Active
Institutions
Lead Institution: Ministry of Rural Development and Food
Support Institution(s): NA
Policy Areas
Access to Information, E-Government, Land Rights & Spatial Planning, Open Data, Public Service DeliveryIRM Review
IRM Report: Greece Design Report 2019-2021
Starred: Pending IRM Review
Early Results: Pending IRM Review
Design i
Verifiable: Yes
Relevant to OGP Values: Access to Information
Implementation i
Completion: Pending IRM Review
Description
Commitment 2: Open access to data of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food
Current situation
The information is now covered by Law 4305/2014 on the «Open access and re-use of documents,
information and public sector data, amendment of Law 3448/2006 (Α΄ 57), adaptation of national
legislation to the provisions of Directive 2013/37/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council,
further strengthening of the transparency, regulation of issues regarding the recruitment competition
of the National School of Public Administration and Local Government and other provisions» (Official
Gazette Α’ 237/31.10.2014), with the differentiations provided for under the Directive regarding
libraries, museums and archives, and a specific provisions regarding the protection of cultural
heritage.
Description of Commitment
A wealth of data falling within the scope of Law 4305/2014 is available to the Ministry of Rural
Development and Food and its supervised entities and will be made available for re-use in order to
contribute to the development and participation of citizens.
OGP Principles
Access to public information
Implementation entities, stakeholders
Implementation: Ministry of Rural Development and Food
Cooperation with supervised entities.
Contact details: Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Directorate for Administrative Organisation
and Supervision of Legal Entities
Objective
1) Anonymisation and creation of new datasets.
2) Integration of new datasets.
3) Mobilisation of entities of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food for data publication.
4) Improvement of the quality of datasets.
5) Open data release decisions
6) Upgrading of digital applications and provision of additional datasets
Key milestones - Timetable
Milestone Completion
1) Anonymisation and creation of new datasets.
2) Integration of new datasets.
3) Mobilisation of entities of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food for data publication.
4) Improvement of the quality of datasets.
5) Open data release decisions
6) Upgrading of digital applications and provision of additional datasets
IRM Midterm Status Summary
2. Open access to data of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food
Main Objective
The published NAP mentions (p.9) the main objective for this commitment as follows:
"Description of Commitment: A wealth of data falling within the scope of Law 4305/2014 is available to the Ministry of Rural Development and Food and its supervised entities and will be made available for re-use in order to contribute to the development and participation of citizens."
"Objectives: 1) Anonymisation and creation of new datasets.
2) Integration of new datasets.
3) Mobilisation of entities of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food for data publication.
4) Improvement of the quality of datasets.
5) Open data release decisions.
6) Upgrading of digital applications and provision of additional datasets."
Milestones
The published NAP mentions (p.9-10) the milestones for this commitment as follows:
"1) Anonymisation and creation of new datasets.
2) Integration of new datasets.
3) Mobilisation of entities of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food for data publication.
4) Improvement of the quality of datasets.
5) Open data release decisions
6) Upgrading of digital applications and provision of additional datasets."
Editorial Note: For the complete text of this commitment, please see Greece's action plan at https://www.opengovpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Greece_Action-Plan_2019-2021_EN.pdf, p.9-17.
IRM Design Report Assessment | |
Verifiable: | Yes |
Relevant: | Yes Access to Information |
Potential impact: | None |
Commitment analysis
This commitment aims to publish data held by the Ministry of Rural Development and Food (MRDF), which includes datasets related to budget and fiscal reporting, awarding of tenders, operational approval decisions, livestock and plant data, veterinary information, and food and agricultural data.
The commitment is verifiable, as it clearly states that 49 datasets will be published in 2019. It is unclear however what datasets will be released in 2020, and is not clear about the process to be used to identify these datasets. According to the information collected from interviews with lead contacts, a part of these datasets was already published in previous release decisions and periodically updated. The commitment has sufficient relevance to the Access to Information OGP value, as it could lead the government to disclose more data (milestones 1, 2 and 5) and improve the quality of the information disclosed to the public (milestone 4). [10]
Published data from the MRDF are spread across data.gov.gr (containing more than 130 open datasets published by MRDF as of May 2019) [11] and MRDF's own institutional website (where more than 80 open datasets have been made available as of May 2019) [12]. Much of the published information includes legislation, guidelines and forms, and lists of agricultural machinery and animals along with fishing vessels.
The official website of the MRDF [13] contains one published report on the lead agency's open data policy and practice [14] and a section on published data policies. [15] The European Data Portal Open Data Maturity in Europe Report 2018 [16] lists open data practice of MRDF as "a best practice given the good quality of datasets and robust implementation of open data policy". [17] The ministry's open data policy refers to procedures for ensuring the quality of the data published, whereas the published data policies section contains two additional guides on (a) confidentiality and personal data protection rules [18] and (b) procedures for published data updates. [19] The latter report sets definitions and rules for annual/multi-annual revisions and updates of published statistical data.
MRDF identified 180 data sets by MRDF and some 150 data sets by supervised entities related to agriculture, veterinarians, fishery and food as needing work done on anonymization before publishing. These datasets are apart from the ones identified in the action plan, which are anonymized already. Concerning milestone 3, supervised entities of the ministry already (prior to the action plan) started documenting and evaluating data for opening and so are expected to continue this on a yearly basis. MRDF clarified that the process for updating and improving the quality of the datasets (milestone 4) was already put in place prior to release of the action plan. MRDF clarified that it had made four open data release decisions before the action plan was adopted, and there had been 16 open data release decisions by MRDF-supervised entities. There were also around 30 e-services already made available by MRDF (milestone 6).
Concerning the rationale behind choosing datasets to open, MRDF mentioned that these choices are based on reasoning about how many stakeholders would benefit from opening each dataset but still stated that no relevant stakeholders outside the public sector have been involved in this process. MRDF mentioned, however, that there are some plans to include other stakeholders but mostly in the context of consultations for new regulations. Non-governmental stakeholder interviews [20] revealed that datasets like the ones included in this commitment on types of sheep or authorised agricultural products and producers may be far from the needs of policy areas and citizens and in fact seem to emanate instead from the internal bureaucratic organisation of data processes and files rather than from identified added-value needs of external stakeholders.
The potential impact of the commitment's milestones and of the commitment as a whole is difficult to assess and thus, despite the large amount of data to be released, it is coded as None. It is unclear how the commitment will respond to the needs of citizens and the agricultural sector as per this commitment's objective. It should be noted, in this respect, that the open data demand side of the agricultural sector in Greece remains at its infancy. The Panhellenic Confederation of Unions of Agricultural Cooperatives website [21] lists no documents on open data and only a handful of documents on statistics; the website of the Greek Open Technologies alliance lists a few announcements for open data infrastructures for the agricultural sector, [22] whereas the data.gov.gr space of MRDF lists only two followers. [23] This, in the IRM researcher's view, is also an indication of a shortcoming, on behalf of MRDF, to make known its open data offerings to the agricultural sector and thus spur demand. It is noted, in this respect, that in an interview question about eventual dissemination plans, MRDF responded for internal (within the ministry) dissemination only. It is unclear how the activities of this commitment could improve or change current open data practices in the ministry or its agencies. At the same time, the milestones do not constitute any step forward beyond what is already mandatory according to legislation. The commitment could strive for some more important impact if it were to address publishing data on issues which clearly address problematic areas. For example, desktop research [24] revealed a number of topical issues for this ministry's domain of responsibility, for which publishing open data could have value and could help to improve policies and processes. An indicative example is information relating to the policies, calls for applications and decisions on agricultural investment plans.
Commitments
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Open Education Data
GR0065, 2019, Access to Information
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Open Rural Development Data
GR0066, 2019, Access to Information
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Open Immigration Data
GR0067, 2019, Access to Information
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Open National Defense Data
GR0068, 2019, Access to Information
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Open Ministry of Interior Data
GR0069, 2019, Access to Information
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Open Administrative Reconstruction Data
GR0070, 2019, Access to Information
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Open Economic Data
GR0071, 2019, Access to Information
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Open Local Government Data
GR0072, 2019, Access to Information
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Open Justice Data
GR0073, 2019, Access to Information
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Open Environmental Data
GR0074, 2019, Access to Information
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Open Culture and Sports Data
GR0075, 2019, Access to Information
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Framework Law on Open & Participative Governance
GR0031, 2016, Capacity Building
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Participation in the Assessment of the Public Sector
GR0032, 2016, Capacity Building
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Publicity of Organisational Charts & Entities of the Public Sector
GR0033, 2016, E-Government
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Accountability and Settlement of Disputes Between the Citizens and the Public Sector
GR0034, 2016, Legislation & Regulation
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Guide and Standardization for the Provision of Services & for Procedures Per Service/Entity
GR0035, 2016, Capacity Building
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Improvement of the Open Deliberation Procedure
GR0036, 2016, Capacity Building
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National Register of Line Managers of the Public Administration (Register)
GR0037, 2016, Capacity Building
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Implementation of the Assessment of Employees and Services and Control Methods
GR0038, 2016, Capacity Building
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Implementation of a System for the Selection of Managers
GR0039, 2016, Capacity Building
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Digital Repository for Pubic Administration Studies
GR0040, 2016, Capacity Building
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Provision of Open Cultural Data
GR0041, 2016, Access to Information
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Geospatial Maritime Data
GR0042, 2016, Access to Information
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Ship/Company and Seafarer Registers
GR0043, 2016, Access to Information
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Marine and Maritime Activity
GR0044, 2016, Access to Information
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Public Property Open Data
GR0045, 2016, Access to Information
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KPI’s for the Implementation of Public and EU Financed Projects
GR0046, 2016, E-Government
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Data and Statistics for Greek National Exams
GR0047, 2016, E-Government
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Protocol Digitization
GR0048, 2016, E-Government
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Informative Actions on Open Data for Young People in Secondary and Higher Education
GR0049, 2016, Access to Information
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Open Education
GR0050, 2016, Access to Information
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Provision of Open Data for Justice
GR0051, 2016, Access to Information
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Enhanced Statistical Data of Justice Open to the Public
GR0052, 2016, E-Government
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Open Provision of Geo-Data
GR0053, 2016, Access to Information
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Open-Participatory Budget
GR0054, 2016, Access to Information
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Regional Council Platform (Open Regional Council)
GR0055, 2016, E-Government
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Open - Participatory Budget
GR0056, 2016, E-Government
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Capture and Evaluation Platform for Regional Technical Projects
GR0057, 2016, E-Government
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City Dashboard
GR0058, 2016, Access to Information
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Online Consultation Platform
GR0059, 2016, E-Government
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Open Data Index for Cities and Local Administrations
GR0060, 2016, Access to Information
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Linked, Open and Participatory Budgets
GR0061, 2016, E-Government
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School of Data for Public Servants
GR0062, 2016, Access to Information
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The Collaborative Wikification of Public Services Procedures
GR0063, 2016, Capacity Building
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Strengthening Openness and Accessibility of the Parliament
GR0064, 2016, Access to Information
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Institutional and Technological Upgrading of Transparency Program
GR0012, 2014, Access to Information
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Public Participation in Decision Making
GR0013, 2014, Capacity Building
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Integration of PSI Directive on the Re-Use of Public Sector Information
GR0014, 2014, Access to Information
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Regulatory Amendments for the Management and Provision of Open Data
GR0015, 2014, Access to Information
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Implementation of Platform for Central Distribution of Public Open Data
GR0016, 2014, Access to Information
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Provision of Open Geospatial Data
GR0017, 2014, Access to Information
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Provision of Open Cultural Data
GR0018, 2014, Access to Information
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Provision of Open Data for Offshore Companies
GR0019, 2014, Access to Information
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Open Provision of Public Sector Critical Data Sets
GR0020, 2014, Access to Information
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Open Invitations for Filling Posts in the Public Sector
GR0021, 2014, E-Government
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Public Administration Organizational Chart Publication
GR0022, 2014, Capacity Building
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Coordination and Monitoring of Open Government Policy
GR0023, 2014, Anti-Corruption
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Reorganization of Inspectorate Bodies and Strategic Alliance Development Against Corruption
GR0024, 2014, Anti-Corruption
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Tracking Changes on Bills (From Submission to Voting by Plenum)
GR0025, 2014, E-Government
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Usability and Functionality Improvements of the ‘Parliamentary Transparency’ Section of the Hellenic Parliament Website
GR0026, 2014, E-Government
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Improvement of the Hellenic Parliament Website and Implementation of New Standards-Technologies
GR0027, 2014, Access to Information
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Provision of Historical Parliamentary Documents to the Public
GR0028, 2014, E-Government
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Enhancement of Social Media Policy in the Hellenic Parliament
GR0029, 2014, E-Government
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On Line Provision of Exhibitions
GR0030, 2014, Capacity Building
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Increase Number of Legislative Acts Going Through Online Deliberation
GR0001, 2012, Legislation & Regulation
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Capitalize on Citizen Comments and Suggestions
GR0002, 2012, Public Participation
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Operate Central e-Procurement Information System
GR0003, 2012, Anti-Corruption
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Operate Central ERP Information System
GR0004, 2012, E-Government
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Operate Central HRMS Information System
GR0005, 2012, E-Government
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Open Data Regarding Prices, as Collected by Prices Observatory
GR0006, 2012, Access to Information
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Resolve Legal Issues Regarding State Geo-Data
GR0007, 2012, Land Rights & Spatial Planning
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Offer Additional Taxation Data
GR0008, 2012, Fiscal Openness
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Augment Functionality of the Transparency Program
GR0009, 2012, E-Government
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Publicise Public Sector Procurement Information
GR0010, 2012, Anti-Corruption
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Enable Open, Transparent and Safeguarded Document Circulation
GR0011, 2012, E-Government