Programme Diplohack Tirana

DiploHack: Introducing The Challenge  Friday 29 January, 17 – 18:30 Embassy Netherlands, Rruga Asim Zeneli 10 Welcome – what is a hackaton – composing the teams – logistics. Diplo Hack: Hackathon! Saturday January, 9:30 18:00 Embassy of the Netherlands, Rrug Asim Zeneli 10 10:15 welcome by Dewi van de Weerd, ambassador of the Netherlands to […]

DiploHack Tirana 29 – 30th January

The Embassy of the Netherlands in Albania and the Albanian Institute of Science will host DiploHack Tirana, “A Voice for Civil Society: Using Open Data to Strengthen Civil Society Advocacy” on January 29 and 30. This Hackathon event will bring together civil society representatives, diplomats, and programmers in a day-long session to work together towards […]

Finalists of Open Data Hackathon Albania 2015

Date: 19.12.2015 Organizer: AIS in the framework of MG&P Place: My Office, Tirana Topic of this year: Life in a Different City Hackathon (Hacker + Marathon) is an open marathon, where various individuals may participate, work, and finalize an application or map. This year, Hackathon was held on 19 December, and the suggested topic was: […]

Transparent data about the assets of high officials in the Justice System

The Spending Data Albania portal has published some data about the assets and economic interests of some high officials of the Justice System under its Money and Power section. Thus, you may find the latest annual incomes of the three Presidents of the Republic, i.e. Mr. Rexhep MEIDANI, Mr. Alfred MOISIU, and Mr. Bamir TOPI, […]

Local Government Law. The Election Situation Room against three mandates for locally elected officials

Tirana, 15 December 2015 The Election Situation Room has asked the Assembly of Albania not to change the original draft law on local government, which restricted the time in office of locally elected officials to 2 mandates. The latest decision to increase the number of mandates to 3 is considered a regress by the Election […]

Phases of the Court process of AIS vs Political Parties for transparency on electoral financies

In the framework of its efforts to promote electoral transparency, AIS has appealed at the Administrative Court of Appeal against the decision of the Court of Tirana to dismiss the organization’s request towards the main political parties PD, PS and LSI (two of them in power) to make available their information on campaign spending and donations. Considering this issue the first court […]

Invitation for participation: Hackathon Albania 2015 “Life in another city”

Hackathon Albania is a yearly event organized to celebrate Open Data and promote their use, adoption, and development of new exciting apps. This year, the event takes place on December 19th 2015 with the topic “Life in another city”. The event is open to individuals, analysts; engineers; (storytellers); scout programmers, designers or students able to […]

The impact of Open Data in the democratization of fiscal policy

Within the framework of OpenBudgets.eu project, AIS participated at the workshop “Democratization of Fiscal Policy” organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation International and OKF Germany, on 30th November and 1st December, 2015. The workshop aimed at creating an open-source model that would integrate all Budget data and transactions expenditures for various public sectors to foster better understand […]

Declaration of assets of elected Mayors on 21st of June 2015

In the framework of Money, Government and Politics program, updated data are released in Spending Data Albania portal, “Money and Power” column, about declared assets of newly elected Mayors of June 21st, 2015, as well as their relatives’ assets. The data are published in compliance with access to information, transparency and accountability principles. Through these publications every journalist or citizen can […]

Share PSI 2.0 Workshop in Berlin: Maximizing interoperability — core vocabularies, location-aware data and more

Albanian Institute of Science (AIS)  is being represented by Besjana Hysa at the workshop Share-PSI 2.0 taking place in Berlin on 25- 26 of November. The workshop is explicitly interested in ideas, concepts and solutions that directly or indirectly address the interoperability of open data and PSI. In order to identify best practices the workshop with […]