Representatives of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation shared their visions of open government development in Russia.

Oleg Pak, deputy director of the Department of state regulation in economics of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, spoke about necessity of improvement of the system of state regulations, affording access to open government’s data for its recycling by business and citizens. Russia requires assessment of efficiency of managers by citizens; this assessment must be taken into consideration in the process of making personnel decisions. "This seminar is important in the context of solving these problems", - mentioned Oleg Pak.

Mikhail Fedorenko, minister of public administration, information technologies and communications of the Moscow region, noted that creation of system assessment of the regime by citizens must become the principal goal in open government implementation.

Representatives of the Ministry of Informatization and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan reported that the system "People’s control", which provides for feedback from citizens, is already being used in the Republic.

According to Svetlana Openysheva, deputy chairman of Government of Ulyanovsk region, it has become a good tradition to discuss on the web-site of the Government of the Region reports by the Governor of Ulyanovsk Region; only after discussion the Governor brings this report to Legislative Assembly.

Work of the session «Ecosystem of open government: key components and best practices» was opened by moderator of the session, coordinator of ICT Department programs of the World Bank, Oleg Petrov. He informed that the World Bank has been working on issues related to open government in different countries for at least two years, is helping other countries to share experience, conducts regional conferences on this topic.

Carlo Rossotto, lead specialist on ICT policy, regional coordinator of the World Bank for Europe and Central Asia, reported on "Ecosystem of open government".

Jeff Kaplan, expert on open government (USA), presented an overview of the world best practices in development of ecosystems of open government. Partnership for open state administration was created. Open government provides for real profitableness of investment capital. The evolution from e-government to open government is in progress. Jeff Kaplan’s conclusion: pressure on authorities in terms of assessment of public services leads to increase in its quality.

Member of the working group for developing suggestions for creation of “Open government” system in the Russian Federation, Aleksey Volin emphasized that we must examine foreign experience but should not blindly copy it. Open government is inevitable. One must create competitive environment, otherwise people compare living conditions and leave for countries, where it is comfortable to run business and live. Yury Hohlov, Chairman of the IIS Board of Directors, reported on "Results of reseach works on open government development in Russian regions". In the course of the report he presented the new Index of Russian region governments’ openness and rating of subjects of RF, which constitutes a measurer of open government instruments’ use by Russian executive authorities. The Index is calculated on the basis of markers, which characterize four trends of open government: services of social networks; open governmental data; online cooperation with citizens; integrated network resources (assessment based on UNO methodology).

Mikhail Bunchuk, program specialist, Institute of the World Banka and ICT Department (World Bank), reported on "Overview of the WB activities related to open government". He reported no programs conducted by the World Bank in different countries for implementation of open budgets, open data, such as «Mapping for results», «Boost» (institute of budget expenses efficiency assessment). Then spoke Ivan Begtin, director of non-commercial partnership “Information Culture”, he reported on "Open data as a basis for open state". Ivan Begtin created a portal OpenGovData.ru., which is devoted to open data in Russia. Begtin emphasized the importance of recycling of state information in the best interests of citizens and business.

The closing session of the seminar was devoted to overview of the world’s best practices in the sphere of people’s participation in public administration and e-democracy. Tiago Peixoto (the World Bank), Christiano Ferry (House of Representatives, Brazil), Izabella Korrea (Main Control-Finance Department, Brazil) reported on how to help citizens to express their position related to public administration.  People, who contact call-centers with complaints about noise in the streets, graffiti on walls, potholes, receive feedback from authorities, and are satisfied that their voices are heard when they see their remarks on corresponding portals. Another convincing example of citizens’ participation in public administration – when people on portals propose something and then vote for it.