Forwarding to mySociety mailing list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ivan Begtin <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:03 AM Subject: [open-gov] Monitoring Government websites: announce of open government project from Russia To: Open Government <[email protected]>
Hi! My name is Ivan Begtin. Sure I am not from US, I am from Russia, but here in our country we keep eye on open government activities everythere on this planet. At the same time we launch our own projects and I think you don't know about most of them. For example, I launched non-profit OpenGovData.ru project about 1 year ago. I would like to introduce our new project - Government Web (http:// www.govweb.ru). It's non-profit project sponsored by russian news magazine Polit.ru (www.polit.ru). Please use Google Translate to see it in English http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://www.govweb.ru/ Our database includes: - 2762 government bodies like state ministries, state agencies, government corporations, government unitary enterprises and so on - 2131 government websites of 12 types (official websites, government projects, exhibitions and so on) - 19 regulative documents - federal laws, federal subjects laws, president decrees and so on related to government web sites. For example you can find list of all public websites available from Ministry of Health and Social Development here http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://www.govweb.ru/govbody/5/&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhh2Ucr_eUDJpWFvv2kntHuMVUy2gQ and find more avail We collect lot's of addition information and weekly update it. This information includes: - results of W3C Validator (validtor.w3.org) verification of websites http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://www.govweb.ru/ratings/w3c/&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhhlCbNjvSIoKYP1qd2Nm00yc2N4Lg - detection of Content Management systems, RSS availability, page encodings, advertising networks (it's violation of russian laws to show ads on government websites), widgets and so on. It's all available here http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://www.govweb.ru/site/cms/&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhija1oQPTolh-UMrN1DYszeUJ9P6Q Also we find and collect as "special lists" government websites that violates russian laws somehow. For example russian 8-FZ (8 Federal Law) demands all government bodies to be owners of domains of their official websites. At the same time we have found about 108 government websites that has domains registered on private persons and 172 domains registered on privately holded companies. We found about 25 government websites hosted on free hosting services. It's violation of 8-FZ too. Sure it's all about government transparency and I think that this project helps lot's of people to know better about government and all it's public information. I am looking for similar projects around the world. If you know any of them - please let me know. Best Regards, Ivan Begtin http://www.opengovdata.ru -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Open Government" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-government?hl=en. _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
