NGO SaveDnipro, together with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, presented a rating of openness of environmental data that government agencies must publish to the public. This will help Ukrainians monitor air quality, water quality, identify illegal landfills, and take care of forests and nature reserves.
The ranking is based on an analysis of 209 datasets from 74 government agencies and helps to understand how organisations fulfil their responsibilities for environmental information disclosure.
According to the analysis, the State Service of Geology and Subsoil of Ukraine is the most open in publishing data, with 71% of datasets available. The rating with the largest number of closed sets is topped by the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine – 16 sets are not published and only one is publicly available. The State Agency of Water Resources of Ukraine has a 100% rate, publishing 4 sets out of 4.
More information about the study can be found here.
Improving the country’s environment with the help of open data!
The analysis of access to environmental open data was conducted by NGO SaveDnipro within the framework of the joint programme of the European Union and the International Renaissance Foundation ‘European Renaissance of Ukraine: Civil Society Resilience and Recovery Initiative’. The material represents the position of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the position of the European Union or the International Renaissance Foundation.
