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- public administration institutions to change the funding model, in order to promote the re-use
and common usage of the data owned by the state by minimizing the direct dependence from the
provision of institution basic activities from such revenue that is made by transferring
information for re-use as;
* measures that encourage the use of open data for the development of innovative products
(applications, solution competitions, educational seminars and workshops).
Supported infrastructure development activities:
* shared solutions for open data processing, publication, previewing;
* establishment of open data applications (including collection and connection of data set).
During the development of guidelines a number of examples of data owned by public institutions
were identified, whose availability in re-use format would have high added value in business and
which was identified also by social partners:
* Added value taxpayer register, Taxpayer register, Tax debtor register, methodical guidelines,
statements, anonymised enquiries on enforcement practices of taxes and other laws and
regulations;
* basic information on subjects registered in the Register of Enterprises – the name, registration
number, legal address. Registers – Commercial Register, Register of Enterprises, Register of
Associations and Foundations;
* court schedules, anonymised court rulings;
* The Procurement Monitoring Bureau – public procurement announcement, the complaint
database (available, but not in a machine-readable format);
* geospatial information basic data42, including maps which are prepared and updated by the
Latvian Geospatial Information Agency;
* Research and Publications database held by cross-sectoral coordination centre;
* information on public and municipality library, archive and museum collections from library
electronic catalogues and joint State Archives Information System and the National Museum
joint catalogue;
* digitised cultural heritage objects not protected by copyrights, which are digitised by public
funds;
* information system of Latvian digital cultural map, data on all cultural institutions;
* anonymised data from the National Health Service;
* anonymised data from the National Social Insurance Agency database;
* Population Register data – data on natural persons – person status change – marriage, divorce,
death and other facts.
Additionally, the interest about the publishing of information on the state budget revenue and
expenditure in a clear and understandable form.
These data sets have been presented as examples, their “opening” volume and conditions are yet
to be assessed, taking into account the factors that affect their acquisition, preparation and
maintenance, including financing model of data sets holders. For example, basic information of
Register of Enterprises is already available for re-use; however, the social partners appeal to
ensure the re-use of basic data free of charge.
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information_society_development_guidelines_2014_2020.docx; Information Society Development Guidelines
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