Within the framework of the "International Open Data Day", events were organized on the theme "Open Data Day Tashkent 2021" with the participation of employees of the State Committee on Statistics, employees of ministries and departments, as well as employees and experts of the OSCE Coordinator in Uzbekistan and the E-Government Project Management Center, dedicated to the organization of effective use of computer technologies and the Internet among the population and youth, as well as the popularization of open data in our country.

Within the framework of the "International Open Data Day", events were organized on the theme "Open Data Day Tashkent 2021" with the participation of employees of the State Committee on Statistics, employees of ministries and departments, as well as employees and experts of the OSCE Coordinator in Uzbekistan and the E-Government Project Management Center, dedicated to the organization of effective use of computer technologies and the Internet among the population and youth, as well as the popularization of open data in our country.

Open Data Day is part of the International Open Data Day initiative, which helps to implement the concept of open data and transparency of information in the activities of government agencies, businesses, non-profit organizations and other participants in public life.

In honor of Open Data Day, meetings, lectures and hackathons are held all over the world. Since 2015, the Open Knowledge Foundation, in partnership with other non-profit organizations in the open data world, has been offering mini-grants to support global events.

Within the framework of the events, employees of the Department for Monitoring and Coordinating the Activities of the open data portal held a presentation dedicated to the Open Data Day Tashkent 2021 event.

At the events, such issues as strategic directions and principles of open data development for 2021-2025, improvement of the regulatory framework for open data, provision of methodological support for data openness, organizational and information technology support for data openness, expected results from the implementation of the “Concept for the development of open data in the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2021-2025 " were discussed”, approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 808 "On measures for the further development of the field of open data in the Republic of Uzbekistan".

• • As it was noted at the events, in order to fulfill the tasks assigned to the statistical bodies in accordance with the decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PP-4273, the State Committee on Statistics performed the following:

    • The open data portal of the Republic of Uzbekistan has received a silver level certificate from the Open Data Institute, and the official website of the State Committee on Statistics of the Republic of Uzbekistan has reached the highest level of "Platinum", which means that this open data is an exceptional example of information infrastructure.
    • The Republic of Uzbekistan became the first country in Central Asia to be included in the most comprehensive list of open data portals in the world org.
    • According to the UN E-Government Review 2020, Uzbekistan is among the 41 countries with the highest Open Data Index (Very High OGDI) in the world.».
    • According to Open Data Inception, Uzbekistan ranks 6th in the world in terms of the number of open data sources.
    • Uzbekistan, according to the Open Data Inventory (ODIN) rating, scored 63 points and ranked 44th in the world and 1st in Central Asia, and also rose by 125 positions.Республика Узбекистан стала первой страной в Центральной Азии, которая вошла в наиболее полный список порталов открытых данных мира org.

     

    • Uzbekistan has joined the International Open Data Charter as the 23rd country, becoming the third country among Asian countries after South Korea and the Philippines.

     

    • To promote open data in our country, such conferences, seminars, webinars and training courses were held as the international open data conference "Open Data Tashkent 2019" with the participation of leading international experts in the field of open data, the Open Data Week Uzbekistan 2019, the Open Data Day Tashkent 2020 seminar, the online event "Open Data Uzbekistan Workshop Agenda", the webinar " Open data solutions during the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in the world and Uzbekistan», a working seminar in the video conference format “The importance of open data in preventing corruption”, as well as advanced training courses for employees from more than 100 ministries and departments, in which 385 employees were trained.

The participants of the events agreed on the need to continue further cooperation in the field of digital economy, training of ICT specialists, development of technology parks, professional development of public relations specialists, development of postal communications and digital television broadcasting.

The events ended with a discussion about the challenges facing Uzbekistan and the planned actions of the employees of the Open Data Portal of Uzbekistan to work with open data.