Open data is a strategic resource holding an enormous potential for multiple users from the public and private sectors, the academic community, citizens and non-governmental organisations. Open data is essentially public data collected, generated and maintained by public sector organisations and published in an open (machine readable) format (CSV, RDF, XML, JSON, etc.), allowing data re-use for business or non-business purposes. We launched the open data initiative to ensure that private individuals and businesses have full access to the public information available to government sector bodies and institutions. Facing up to a broad range of challenges in the domains of policy, technology, financing, the setup and legal framework governing open data are essential for the efficient and effective development of the initiative in a way that generates benefits for all stakeholders in society.

The open data portal represents a central, public, web-based database where institutions publish the information collected by them in a for that is, convenient for analysis. It allows easy processing, display map, diagram, or in an otherwise different and more understandable form. The information is in machine-readable format with the necessary metadata.

The Open Data Portal was created and maintained under Art. 15d of the Access to Public information Act. It is a single, central, public web-based information system that provides for the publication and management of information for re-use in an open, machine-readable format along with relevant metadata. The portal is built in a way that allows the complete retrieval of published information or parts of it. The portal collects at one place all information and is clear accessible to the public. This is the first step for the easier connections between various facts and the examination of the reasons behind them.

The basis of the project is an open source platform CKAN, which is developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation and Germany. It is used extensively by countries such as Britain, Romania, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Sweden, South Korea, including the European Commission and numerous regional administrations.