Commitment 3: Completion of Open Data legal and regulatory framework at the national level

E-Government Unit – Presidency of the Government

– Adopting a license to organize the public data re-use,
– Developing a network of the persons in charge of open data in the various public departments and agencies.
– Launching the public data inventory project at 11 pilot ministries. Indeed, various activities are achieved namely :

• • Launching of working sessions with the ministries concerned by the first stage of the public data inventory project at February 2018

• • Several follow-up meetings were organized with these structures to follow up the project and provide the necessary technical support;

• Elaboration of the mission report related to the public data inventory project. This report was drafted by appointed experts to this project in coordination with the World Bank. The analysis results included on the report are organized around six pilot structures as follow: ministry of agriculture, ministry of local affairs and environment, ministry of industry, ministry of cultural affairs, ministry of transport and the national health insurance fund. As well as the report brings together recommendations to solve the several issues related to the public data inventory project.

– Concerning the third action related to “Defining a national open data Charter”, steering committee agreed with involved actors to draft a legal text “open data decree” in order to reinforce the adherence of all public structures and other actors in this process. In fact, launching of the open data decree project through :

• • Organization of two workshops on April 05 and 06, 2018 in order to announce the beginning of the projects.

• • Arrangement of seven workshops related to the elaboration of the open data decree project end of Mai 2018 that aimed to discuss and identify the main chapters and articles that will be included in this text

• • Drafting of the project by a working group

• • drafting the project by a working group that gathers representatives of public structures and civil society

• • Organization of an information and consultation day around the first version end of August 2018

• Collecting Feedback and comments of stakeholders to establish the second version of the project that will be published online for consultation.

– Regarding civil society, the Tunisian Public Auditors Association held training sessions across the country to the profit of 45 municipalities about the right of access to information and open data. A report was later prepared diagnosing needs of different regions in this domain and allowing selecting the most prepared institutions to start implementing the open data system at the local level. The Association also held two workshops for municipalities and civil society on open data,

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