📋 Tender Overview
In March, we celebrate the International Open Day every year, and this month many activities are being held, emphasizing the public about the importance of free access to data for the development of modern and innovative society. With the term open data, we refer to information and data that is not only publicly available, but also published so that everyone can easily use and share it.Open data is crucial for strengthening citizens confidence in each government. Data also allow for a faster response to the needs of the company.
In the age of digitization and rapid technological advancement, there is fuel data that drives innovation and enables the development of new solutions for social challenges. Access to quality, accurate and up -to -date data is crucial for researchers, entrepreneurs, journalists and the general public.
Opening data means that public institutions provide access to their information in a transparent and easy way. For the state, opening public sector data is to strengthen transparency, as well as enable better management and monitoring of policies, as well as more efficient use of public funds. Open data is crucial for strengthening citizens confidence in each government. Data also allow for a faster response to the needs of the company.
Open data is also the basis for the development of smart cities and digitization of public services. Based on open public sector data, companies can develop applications that improve quality of life - from traffic solutions, environmental analyzes, to health and education improvements.
The Ministries of Public Administration and the digital transformation in the field of public sector data are managed by numerous activities such as: co-editing the National Open Opi data portal, organizing various workshops and meetings in this field, hackatons and the like.
At the Ministry of Public Administration, we are particularly proud of traditional cooperation with Slovenian faculties, where students prepare applications on the basis of open public sector data within the semester obligations. We have been cooperating with the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, the Faculty of Administration of the University of Ljubljana, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer and Information Science, the University of Maribor, the Faculty of Organizational Sciences of the University of Maribor and others.
Together with partners, we also organize a number of hackatons every year, in which participants produce applications, visualizations and digital solutions based on open public sector data. The theme of this years hackaton is digital duplicates, and the challenges: space challenge, which includes satellite imagery analyzing, through which participants will develop smart models and forecasts (eg, climate change forecasting, agriculture optimization, analyzing urban growth, etc.). The second challenge is general, and in the latter, participants will be able to choose between challenges in the field of health and well -being, social rights and equal opportunities and a secret future. The third challenge prepared by the sponsor, however, touches on the area of activity of the pharmaceutical society, namely health and well -being. The main organizer of the hekaton is the academic and research network of Slovenia (Arnes), and in addition to the Ministry of Public Administration and the Ministry of Digital Transformation, the Slovenian Society for Informatics, Faculty of Computer and Information Science Ljubljana, the Slovenian Community for Open Science, UNESCO and others.
At the Ministry of Public Administration, we also carry out custody of the catalog of public information, which includes a list of databases kept by state bodies and local communities bodies. The list is published on the OPSI portal and is an important source of information for anyone who wants to obtain data and use it for research, analysis or development of new services.
