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Ivan Begtin

Ivan is director at NGO "Informational Culture" and founder of the OpenGovData.ru project, as well as lots of other Russian e-Government and open data initiatives. He is a member of the OKF's working group on open government data. He has worked as a programmer, systems architect and project manager of various russian system integration companies, and has more than 6 years experience in russian procurement automation and e-Government projects.

Posted byby Ivan Begtin
January 16, 2015

BudgetApps: The First All-Russia Contest on Open Finance Data

This is a guest post by Ivan Begtin, Ambassador for Open Knowledge in Russia and co-founder of the Russian Local Group. Dear friends, the end of 2014 and the beginning…

Posted byby Ivan Begtin
June 29, 2012

On the way to the new market of information in Russia

On June 5th at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow a round table conference took place, devoted to the opening of state-collected datasets. It was convened by the Higher…

Posted byby Ivan Begtin
May 21, 2012

Infokultura and Apps4Russia

During recent years, the Russian Federation has undertaken a number of developments in its open data legislation strategy. This trend inspired a team of professionals to get together and start…