On
October 6, the first workshop took place in Kyiv as a part of the presentation
workshops “E-DATA — open tool for the control of public spending” for
non-commercial NGOs and media from different regions of Ukraine.
The
event had been arranged by the Eastern Europe Foundation and brought together
representatives of NGOs and media from Sumy, Lviv,Chernigiv, Mariupol, Dnipropetrovsk, Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk,
Ternopol and other cities. The participants of the workshop were informed
on the idea of open public spending, the E-DATA portal, its capacities,
implementation stages, objectives and expected results.
During the workshop the participants were also informed on
the implementation experience of transparent public finances, on
opportunities and architecture of the website and on the implementation stages
of E-DATA.
The project manager, Oleksandr Shchelokov, presented the project as an official public information web-portal disclosing data on public spending which is contributing to the implementation of the idea of a transparent state budget: “Our project should be implemented in several steps:step1 – publication of the transactions of the State Treasury; step2 – use of the funds of the state budget, local budgets and state specialized funds; step3 – use of the funds of state-owned and municipal companies. After these 3 steps we shall launch the comprehensive information and analytical system «Transparent budget”. The next stage of the E-DATA project is supposed to disclose the entire spending of central and local bodies according to art. 3 of the Law of Ukraine «On the transparency of the use of public funds.”
The project manager, Oleksandr Shchelokov, presented the project as an official public information web-portal disclosing data on public spending which is contributing to the implementation of the idea of a transparent state budget: “Our project should be implemented in several steps:step1 – publication of the transactions of the State Treasury; step2 – use of the funds of the state budget, local budgets and state specialized funds; step3 – use of the funds of state-owned and municipal companies. After these 3 steps we shall launch the comprehensive information and analytical system «Transparent budget”. The next stage of the E-DATA project is supposed to disclose the entire spending of central and local bodies according to art. 3 of the Law of Ukraine «On the transparency of the use of public funds.”
The
next presentations will take place in the eastern part of Ukraine:
October8, 18:00 – presentation of the E-DATA
project in Slovyansk, in «Teplyzya» (53 R. Luxemburg str.).
October9, 19:30 – presentation of the E-DATA
project in Kramatorsk, in «Vilna Khata» (9 Prospekt Myru).
Forv information:
E-Data (http://e-data.gov.ua/) is an
official public information web-portal on the use of public funds. The web-portal
was launched on September 15, 2015, and is aimed to implement the
idea of a transparent state budget. According to the Law “On the
open use of public funds”, public funds are the funds of the state budget
and local budgets, loans guaranteed by the state and local authorities,
funds of the National Bank and state-owned banks, financial resources of
state specialized funds as well as Pension Fund and funds for obligatory state
social security, funds of state-owned and municipal companies.
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