Open data from Ministry of Culture & Sports (GR0077)

Short description: The Ministry of Culture and Sports, as well as its supervised bodies, have at their disposal a plethora of data that fall within the scope of Law 4727/2020 and will be available for further use in order to contribute to an overall development and participation of citizens.

Which public issue is addressing: - Citizens, through datasets, will gain access to information ( website available). Published datasets will become a useful tool for citizens' access to culture and motivate productive forces to develop IT applications of cultural interest. - Distribution of similar sets in different ways by various Services: By set grouping and homogenizing the goal becomes a common policy of allocating similar data, so that every citizen becomes aware of how and under which conditions it is possible to obtain the data one needs.

Which body/ bodies will have the main responsibility for implementation: Ministry of Culture and Sports (Culture sector) in collaboration with its supervised entities

Actions: 1) Carrying out an e-consultation, by setting questions that will strengthen the participation of citizens in the definition of the available data sets. 2) Improving the quality of data sets and metadata. 3) Update published datasets. 4) Grouping and homogenising of the datasets of the relevant Services. 5) Decision for releasing data available to the public.

Milestones for implementation: (Each one to be linked to verifiable deliverables) 1) Completion of Consultation: End of March 2021 2) Carrying out the Report / Consultation Results: End of April 2021 3) Culture Services datasets grouping and homogenizing: end of August 2021 4) Improving the quality of data sets and metadata: end of August 2021 40 5) Decision to release open data: One (1) end of August 2021 OGP principles: • Access to information • Public Participation

Commitment A2. Open data availability of the Ministry of Culture and Sports

● Verifiable: Yes

● Relevant: Yes, access to information

● Potential impact: Minor

● Completion: Completed

● Did it open government? Marginal

This commitment was added to the amended action plan. The Ministry conducted an online public consultation to ensure relevance of published open data and increase the potential for reuse by engaging with external stakeholders. [68] It was held between 5 March and 5 April 2021 and consisted of a range of questions on what citizens considered important and how to improve the Ministry’s datasets regarding access to information, accountability, technology and innovation, and public participation. Due to technical reasons, the consultation was not carried out in the form of interactive questions but as a questionnaire that participants had to complete and send to a specific email address. There were only four respondents, and the report on conclusions from the consultation concluded that this may have been due to the design of the consultation, the lack of promotion, and low public interest. The report proposed running a better consultative process next year, for a longer period of time, that will be more interactive and better promoted in order gather citizen insights on the open data policy and datasets to be published.

A representative from the Ministry of Culture said that they continue to update the quality of published datasets, for instance by taking into account comments on open data received through the feature “Tell us you opinion” on the Ministry’s main website or received via the email address opendata_yppoa@culture.gr. [69]