Disclosable Restructuring and (or) Additional Financing Paper - Implementing Open Data Action Plan for the Kyrgyz Republic - P160933

The objective of the Implementing Open Data Action Plan for the Kyrgyz Republic is to enhance modern statistical and data management and sharing capabilities of the Recipient through the creation of an online data platform populated with open data sets, and to raise capacity among the public to access and use such data. In response to the Client’s request of September 5, 2019, this restructuring paper seeks a 2.5-month extension of the closing date from October 10, 2019 until December 31, 2019. The extension of closing date is needed to provide sufficient time to complete some of the ongoing activities. The following activities are planned to conduct before the end of the project: to develop and approve a standard instruction on the procedure for publishing open data by government agencies, as well as technical requirements to open data publication; to create the list of data sets of 12 pilot departments, to appoint responsible persons and publish in amount of not less than 700 data sets; to work out the composition of the data sets for compliance with preliminary technical requirement, as well as the composition of data provided; to organize testing of the portal and data sets, and work out testing results; to implement integration of the Open Data Portal with the sites and information systems of the ministries through API; and to develop user guidelines and conduct training.