The project seminar “The standard of region’s openness as an indicator of quality of interaction between state and public institutes” opened in Kazan

Issues of public administration and creation of a single standard of openness for regions are being discussed in IT park at a seminar organized under the auspices of Russian Minister Mikhail Abyzov.

Tatarstan Minister of Information and Communication Roman Shaikhutdinov opened the seminar.

Roman Shaikhutdinov said: “The Republic of Tatarstan actively participates in adoption of Open Government tools. The interdepartmental working group was established for the project implementation. For several years we have been implementing projects in the sphere of informatization of relationships between state and citizens. We decided to create a single resource that will combine all services, and we called it Open Tatarstan.”

The portal Open Tatarstan will include sections “Electronic services”, “Public control”, “Public and expert discussion of plans of state and municipal purchases”, “Public discussion of activity of executive authorities”, “Public and expert discussion of drafts of normative and legal acts”, and “Open information”.

Representatives of Russian Ministry of Communication and Mass Media, Ministry of Regional Development, pilot regions who coordinate issues of public administration openness, journalists and bloggers are taking part in the seminar.

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