On this occasion, Mr. Djordje Krivokapić, Associate Lecturer at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences of the University of Belgrade and Legal & Policy Director of the Share Foundation in Serbia, together with a Share Foundation team, presented their research related to the practices of handling, processing and exchanging data in public institutions in Serbia and the “Guide for Handling Personal Data in Public Sector.”

Representatives of civil society and civil servants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro were invited to participate. The webinar is set up as part of the EU-supported PASOS project Advocacy for Open Government, aimed at encouraging governments in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia to become more transparent, accountable and engaging of citizens.

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In this video recording of the webinar, Recica discusses the following points:

1. Accessing government data: Why?
2. Open Data in Kosovo: Where do we stand?
3. Make the data speak citizens language

The webinar was held as part of Advocacy for Open Government, an EU-funded project to encourage governments in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia to become more transparent.

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In this video recording of the webinar, Recica discusses the following points:

1. Why a budget needs to be a citizen’s budget?
2. Budgeting process
3. Budget reporting and Transparency

The webinar was held as part of Advocacy for Open Government, an EU-funded project to encourage governments in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia to become more transparent.

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The webinar is designed for OGP stakeholders, government and civil society representatives in participating countries to guide their efforts in the development of new national action plans (NAPs) and their implementation. It brings best practices and advice as observed from various OGP players such as OGP’s Support Unit and IRM, including a civil society perspective through IDM’s experience (Albania) and PASOS project’s implementation in the WB region.

The webinar is set up as part of the EU-supported Advocacy for Open Government project, aimed at encouraging governments in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia to become more transparent, accountable and engaging of citizens.

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The grant is funding a project called COHESIFY, which will focus on four interrelated issues:

• how European identity and perceptions of the EU and Cohesion policy vary at national, regional and local levels;
• the impact of Cohesion policy on citizens’ perceptions of the policy and identification with the EU;
• whether and how Cohesion policy communication strategies affect perception and identification; and
• what is needed to make Cohesion policy more effective in terms of people’s perceptions of the policy and the EU more generally

The study will employ an innovative mixed-methods design including an original and representative survey of citizens in a sample of EU regions, quantitative and qualitative analysis of EU-wide data and of programme implementation and communication strategies in a sample of regions, framing and sentiment analysis of online and offline media and focus groups with citizens.

Funded under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, COHESIFY aims to check how the European citizens perceive the EU through the lenses of money invested in their towns, cities and regions. By conducting a multidisciplinary study, researchers will investigate if cohesion policy, the fund behind 50 billion euros invested yearly in all European regions, effects people’s identification with the European project.

CPS-CEU is one of 8 academic institutions and 2 SMEs participating in the project, which is being led by the European Policies Research Centre (EPRC).

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The results were announced at an April 14 press conference held jointly with the Kharkiv Anti-corruption Center (KhAC), which has partnered with ICPS on the project, called “Anti-corruption Portal for Public Investigations.”

“Anti-corruption investigations can be conducted through processing of public information and open data registers,” said project coordinator Natalia Shylo. “The country lives in a unique time. High officials have become open to our gaze as never before. We can make sure what decisions the city council takes and what procurement auctions state enterprises hold.

“Our authorities still do not realize how transparent their activities are, that is why they involve in procurement auctions their friends by establishing non-transparent conditions. You can keep up on all this sitting at the computer.”

Funded by the British Embassy in Ukraine, the project was launched in January 2016. The project supported activists who combed public records, conducted open data journalism, and financed independent investigators. The project is one of the first in the field of “digital democracy” in Ukraine, and the think tank expects that it will set a precedent for increasing citizen control over public finances.

Among the findings submitted to authorities are allegations that:

• The Donbasenergo power company purchased coal from a mine owned by the minister of energy and coal of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic at a price 3.5 times higher than the market price, according to Volodymyr Rudenko of the KhAC.
• The city council of Kharkiv routinely gives away public land to corporations and individuals close to municipal leaders. In one case, the land was used to build a private mansion for Mykhailo Dobkin, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, said journalist Maryna Nikolaeva. She said that Kharkiv has one of the lowest levels of competition in the construction industry in Ukraine.
• The director of the Kharkiv Cancer Center profited from two pharmacies he built on the site of the center. The center spent about 46 percent of its medicinal purchases at the pharmacies, said Yevgen Lisichkin of the KhAC.

ICPS and Svidomi, an anti-corruption NGO, are planning a press conference April 28 in Lviv, to reveal more results of the project.

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HOW TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY AND EFFICIENCY AT LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL THROUGH ON-LINE SERVICES

May 16, 2016, at 11:00-11:45 AM (GMT+1)

Presenters:

Juliana Hoxha, Expert at Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, CoE and Director/Founder of Partners Albania for Change and Development

Dear colleagues,

The Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) in Tirana, Albania invites interested participants to a Webinar on the topic “How to increase transparency and efficiency at local government level through on-line services”, which will be held in English on May 16^th, 2016, hrs 11:00-11:45 AM Central European Time (CET).

On this occasion, Mrs. Juliana Hoxha, Expert at Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, CoE and Director/Founder of Partners Albania for Change and Development, will present the importance of on-line public services in increasing transparency and efficiency at the local government level.

Representatives of civil society and civil servants from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia are invited to join this online seminar. We look forward to your participation. For registration, please click here.

The webinar is set up as part of the EU-supported Advocacy for Open Government project, aimed at encouraging governments in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia to become more transparent, accountable and engaging of citizens.

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