Data-Driven Government in Russia: Linked Open Data Challenges, Opportunities, Solutions

The trend of data-driven Government sets the priority of a data-centric paradigm for the development of digital government. It also maintains the use of linked open data as the basis for information sharing. Even though today when many countries have made a significant breakthrough, this task has turned out to be rather challenging for most of them and for Russia as well. Following the key criteria highlighted and proved for our assessment in 2018 we re-consider the results revealing Russian e-government readiness for the digital transformation basically in linked open data production. New challenges posed by the implementation of recently accepted data strategies in Russia set the objective of this research to check how the situation changed over the past two years. Due to the role of statistics in Open Government Data we give the review existing international practice in Linked Open Statistical data and shortly present ongoing research initiatives of The Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Expanding our previous recommendations, we advise to consider the competence gained in existing research and development and use it for implementing the state strategies with the focus on LO(S)D.