Action Plans

Other actors involved

Other state actors involved

Office of Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, National Security Service, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Justice

Civil society, private sector

"Digital Armenia" NGO

Other NGOs and organizations that will join the commitment

Central Bank

"EKENG" CJSC

International and local professional companies, private experts

Issue subject to regulation

Main objective

Elaboration of the legislation defining the data policy is aimed at the regulation of relations regarding the formation and use of data in Armenia and the formation of institutional frameworks with the adoption of the open data doctrine. The legislation of the Republic of Armenia will enable to clarify the rights and responsibilities of data market participants, the regulatory authorities and other institutional mechanisms with the best available solutions, with the aim to establish legal grounds necessary for providing safe and citizen-centred services, increasing the efficiency of the public administration system, promoting the competitiveness and efficiency of the economy, and developing the digital economy and digital society.

Brief description of commitment

OGP challenge addressed by the commitment

Relevance to OGP values

1. How will the commitment promote transparency?

The legislation defining the data policy will include regulations on the rights and responsibilities of those carrying out actions regarding the data, their receipt, processing, storage, transmission and other actions; the system of rules related to data access and transparency will also be formed based on the doctrine of open data; legal grounds and standards for data catalogues and on ensuring public access to meta data will be provided.

2. How will the commitment help foster accountability?

The standards of data classification, usage, quality assessment, identification, data protection and accurate distribution, risk management principles, responsibility and accountability, and other legal relations will be defined and specified by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia.

3. How will the commitment improve citizen participation in defining, implementing, and monitoring solutions?

The elaboration and actual implementation of data legislation based on the open data policy will also contribute to the development of citizen-state communication and participatory management systems through the implementation of more intelligent and mutually reliable solutions and platforms. At the same time, the data legislation will also ensure a sufficient legal infrastructure, which will enable to introduce systems for public service quality monitoring, control and management, to encourage the practices of designing and provision of citizen-centred public services and those based on the experience of a citizen.

Ambition

The elaboration and adoption of data policy legislation will enable to fully regulate the field of relations for the digital economy, digital society and digital state and services, which will, in its turn, improve the quality of data, access and their safe management. The quality of services being provided to the public, the public confidence in state data and information systems, and the usage of digital services will significantly increase. As a final result, it is expected to create complete legal grounds critical for development of citizen-centred and data-based policy, and development of economy and digital society.