Development of the open budget format
Vitaly Vlasov, Olga Parkhimovich · 2014
Opening budget information is one of the main approaches to build transparent government. By using technologies and open data people can build new services, innovations and make citizen society stronger. A lot of budget data published already around the world. Russian government also are interested in open budgets projects. But there is no appropriate, simple and flexible format for publishing budget data. In this paper we analyzed budget process, current structure of Russian budget, existing formats, frameworks and platforms for publishing to propose Open Budget Format as a first step to open budgets in Russia in good machine-readable manner.