This document discusses challenges and opportunities for implementing transparency and open government projects in Greece. It outlines past open government projects in Greece from 2009-2012 that focused on proof of concepts, skills development, interoperability, and open standards. Current demands for transparency stem from the economic crisis. The Transparency Program aims to establish a new relationship between citizens and government based on accountability. It promotes open data through a multichannel platform and encourages third parties to create applications. Challenges include overcoming issues within institutions and culture, bridging access gaps, and adopting diverse technical solutions. Opportunities exist for both public and private sectors to improve governance and gain business value through openness, feedback, and knowledge-based applications.

1. Implementing transparency and open
government projects in Greece
Challenges & Opportunities for public and private sector
Georgios Karamanolis
Crowdpolicy,Co-founder & CTO

2. Past Experience -
Greek
OpenGov projects
The Greek Open
Ecosystem
Challenges &
Opportunities

3. Private sector
Banks, Hospitals, Schools, Hotels,
Retails
Public sector
Local municipalities, Central
Government, Public Sector
Companies
We use advanced internet
technologies to evaluate and
improve internal procedures,
products and services of
organizations.

4. OpenGov Projects in Greece 2009 –
2012, Common Characteristics
• Proof of concept implementations
• Development of human resources, organizational
skills and digital culture
• Interoperability (the way that different systems
communicate with each other)
• Open standards (the way that data are available without
limitations of vendor licenses)
• Deliberation and Accountability
• Collaboration
• Synergies - Cost reduction

5. • The current crisis brings the demand for more
transparency and commitment to
government accountability
• The aims of the Transparency Program
• bring a new model in the relationship between the Citizen and the
Government
• enforce the government accountability
• fight fraud and over-spending
• embed transparency, responsibility, legality and accountability in the
execution of public power
• secure citizens’ constitutional rights about access on information and
participation in information society
The Transparency program -
Δι@ύγεια

6. Transparency - OpenData
• Multichannel access to raw data
• Open standards, interoperability
• Searching, customized feeds
• Data analysis by independent
entities
– Transparency, accountability
• Added-value applications by third-
party implementors
• Creative Commons - BY license,
allows to:
– Reuse
– Adapt
– Distribute

7. open data - example

8. Publicspending.net
The platform is focusing on
engineering meaningful
interconnections among public
spending data
Publicspending unifies different
company names of the same entity
and the variform classifications of
payment categories (e.g. CPV,
NAICS)
The platform exploits the provision
of open data by the Transparency
Platform

9. More transparency apps
http://goo.gl/7VLWK

10. http://www.opengovpartnership.org/countries/greece
http://ogp.opengov.gr
There are global initiatives
aiming to make governments
more open, accountable,
and responsive to citizens.
Countries, governments and
civil society are working
together to develop and
implement ambitious open
government reforms.
The Open Government
Partnership is a multilateral
initiative that aims to secure
concrete commitments from
governments to promote
transparency, empower
citizens, fight corruption, and
harness new technologies to
strengthen governance.

11. Challenges
1.Institutional
● Middle management
● specifications
● who takes part
2.Social
● Bridge access gaps and tackle knowledge inequalities.
● Mobilize meaningful participation
● Culture of trust and engagement
3.Technological
● Lack of a uniform methodologies (online and offline)
● Variety of technical solutions that leave open space for experimentation
● A strategy to study the global experience in order to domestically adopt
and adapt.
4.Cultural
● Web visibility of key public administration people
● Constant effort to understand what it takes to develop a viable open
government model

12. Online information system, with
embedded GIS services, for the
monitoring and management of the
projects of the Municipality of Athens
within the framework of the NSRF
2007-2013 and 2014-2020 Operational
Programmes. The platform promotes
accountability using a user generated
content and rating process
infrastructure.

13. crowdsourcing for the Greek Parliament
Vouliwatch.gr is based on Q-Engine, which is
specially customized for Political crowdsourcing
initiatives. Q engine is a technology framework
developed by Crowdpolicy, that uses
crowdsourcing processes and techniques through
a multi-channel pattern of evaluation
monitoring.

14. Personalization &
participative services for the
private sector

15. συνΑθηνά

17. Opportunities & business value
● Openness of data and processes (OpenGov) can
translate into more efficient internal governance
frameworks
● Enhanced feedback from workers and employees,
● Improved traceability of supply chains,
● Accountability to end consumers
● Better service and product delivery
● win--win
○ Boom line
○ correlate with governance, environmental and
social gains.
● Knowledge based added value apps by §start ups

18. The Greek open ecosystem
• NGOs - Initiatives that disrupt politics and
innovate!
• Innovation Hubs - Important stakeholders eg
National Documentation Centre
• A Greek community of Open Technologies users
and developers
• laboratories using and developing Open
Technology applications in Greek Universities
and Research Centers.
• interested parties/potential users (public
administration, educational institutions,
businesses),
• ICT companies that try to establish an adequate
base of business models for Open Technologies
support and development.
We actively support the greek open
ecosystem !
we want an open - large market
Openness is the first step for
innovation!

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