Regional Open Data Portals: A “Monologue” of the Government or a Dialogue with Civil Society

The subject of the study is ensuring the information openness of government structures. The purpose of the work is to substantiate the directions for improving the ways of representing open government data. The article substantiates the directions for improving the ways of representing open government data. At the conceptual level, it is determined in what ratio open data are with information about the activities of the authority; with official and departmental statistics; with data operated by state information systems. At the methodological level, based on the analysis of web resources and generalization of best practices, a set of requirements for a regional open data portal is formulated. The article identifies possible goals for the publication of open data, consisting in scientific and methodological support for management, the development of public control, and the provision of material for the development of projects to create useful services. The results of the analysis of the information content of regional open data portals are presented, which allow not only to understand the current situation on the ground, but also to form a system of criteria for the quality of their information content. It is determined that the further development of the practice of posting open government data depends on solving such methodological problems as correlating the concepts of «open data» and «state statistics data», comparing statistical and departmental data, classifying posted official information as «open data», streamlining approaches to centralization/regionalization of open data. Based on the analysis of the accepted definitions of open data, it was revealed that they highlight only the properties, and not the meaningful characteristics of such data. It is concluded that it is necessary to streamline the structure and content of regional open data portals, as well as embed relevant information in industry Internet resources

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