Infometer 2014 (eng)

1. Public audit of
official governmental
websites:
how to increase
governmental
transparency

2. Freedom of Information legislation in Russia
Freedom of information
law for executive and
legislative authorities
Freedom of information
law for judiciary
authorities
Special content
requirements for all
governmental
websites
Special technical
requirements for all
governmental
websites
Responsibility
for abusing FOI laws

3. How do official governmental
websites meet legislative
requirements, international
standards, and expert advice?

4. How it
has been
What we did The result is
We have been
civic experts for
governmental
transparency
Officials have
desired to be
leaders among
similes
IT-solution
for public audit of
governmental
websites
A mathematical
model
for measuring
level of
government
openness
Communication
and cooperation
between civic
experts
and officials
Openness of
official websites
grows

5. "Infometer" - a web-based platform for civic website audit is:
Virtual space
for evaluating
official websites
Interaction between
experts and officials
aimed to ensure growth
of online openness
Automatic calculation of
website openness
ratings
Free access to
assessment results and
final ratings
Infometer

6. How the Infometer works:
Preliminary
estimation Interaction Ranking
Civic experts
evaluate the
content of
government
websites
Officials:
Discuss initial
evaluation with
experts
Ratings
published in
the media
and used by
the authorities
in their reports
and reviews
Correct website
content
Identify
possible errors
Raise the position
of their website in the ranking

7. Our results for 2012-2013:
2013 2014
Total governmental
website rated
Government representatives
registered in the «Infometer»
Average level of information
transparency for the official
websites
3886
increased
by 25%
increased
by 36%
4220
992 888

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