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[EN] Main international and national data sources on Armenia 🇦🇲

We recall the well-known international data sources where one can find the main indicators and data sets about Armenia and enlarge the list:

— World Bank Statistics. Published data on the main economic and social indicators of the country: https://data.worldbank.org/country/AM

— Key Indicators of the Economy of Armenia, published at Asian Development Bank portal: https://kidb.adb.org/economies/armenia

— UN Statistics. Data are aggregated from various international databases and survey results by thematic cross-sections: economy, demography, agriculture and products, climate, unemployment and employment, telecommunication, information technology, etc. Go to search: http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx

— Key health and mortality indicators for Armenia at the World Health Organisations portal: https://data.who.int/countries/051

— Climate Change Indicators by IMF by country, including Armenia: https://climatedata.imf.org/pages/country-data

— Biodiversity datasets from Global Core Biodata Resource: https://www.gbif.org/country/AM/about

— There are 93 datasets related to Armenia published on the Humanitarian Data Exchange portal. Also, there are geospatial datasets: https://data.humdata.org/group/arm

There is a lot of overlap and duplication but the data can form an excellent basis for enriching and creating new, high-quality, and useful datasets.

If you know of other sources, please let us know about them in the chat: https://yangx.top/opendataamchat.
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We are always looking for more Armenian textual data: Collections of free to use texts, especially under open licence. We already collected more than 200k texts from ARLIS database of Armenian laws 23Gb uncompressed. But laws are very specific texts, so more data is needed for the use of any advanced applications that could be created in the planned open data competitions.

If you are aware of any other source of Armenian texts, please drop us a note in the chat https://yangx.top/opendataamchat

#texts #datasets #helpneeded
July 18, 2023
Բաց տվյալներ հետազոտող ու ստեղծող համայնք կերտելու համար մենք նաև հայալեզու կրթական ծրագրեր ենք նախատեսում: Ուրախ ենք, որ մինչ այդ հնարավորություն ունենք կիսվել գործընկերների կողմից պատրաստված ճանաչողական նյութերով,օրինակ` Բուն TV-ի այս փոդքաստով:

ՀՌԿԿ Հայաստան հիմնադրամի գործադիր տնօրեն Սոնա Բալասանյանը և Վիճակագրական կոմիտեի աշխատանքի վիճակագրության բաժնի պետ Լուսինե Քալանթարյանը զրուցեցին բաց տվյալների, դրանց կիրառելիության, շահառուների, պետության և հետազոտողների կապի, ինչպես նաև ոլորտի խնդիրների մասին:

Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu7I51_MlzY:

Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/show/0kebHzx0Gzsx3m8vYgdzEZ:
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The Armenian state has been making commitments to the Open Government Partnership since 2012. Via this link you can see what has been done during previous periods and what we should expect to see in 2024. Unfortunately, the 2020-2022 window was missed, most likely due to the consequences of the pandemic and war.

On the portal, you can also access the story of development of open government tools in Armenia and get information regarding the state priorities in this domain. Most of the plans for 2022-2024 deal rather with transparent governance than open data, however, there is an obvious focus on spatial data development and e-budgets.

What do you think about the mentioned aims? Are they reachable and ambitious enough? What would you add or postpone?
August 3, 2023
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The article published in 2021 in the authoritative ‘Plos One’ journal [1] makes the case for government efforts in publishing open data. Building on the surveys conducted across the European Union, the authors show that open government data is a trust-enabler for Millennials and Generation Z, also being enhanced by citizen satisfaction. Therefore, public officers are encouraged to spread the implementation of open data strategies as a way to strengthen democratic attachment in younger generations.

We firmly believe that these findings could be even more salient in Armenia where there are no serious alternatives to government-enabled open data yet.

[1] Gonzálvez-Gallego, N., & Nieto-Torrejón, L. (2021). Can open data increase younger generations’ trust in democratic institutions? A study in the European Union. PLOS ONE, 16(1), e0244994. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244994
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Делимся прекрасным примером того, как можно не полениться и коллективными усилиями создать общественно-полезный проект, построенный на данных.

https://www.armaqi.org/ – независимая система измерения качества воздуха с помощью открытого сообщества.

История возникновения проекта описана на «Хабре»: https://habr.com/ru/articles/755586/.
August 24, 2023
European Data Portal has kindly shared a summer list of insightful articles and books on open data, analytics, and AI just recently.

This is to two good news. First, summer has not come to its end yet. Second, there's a good chance to learn something fresh and inspiring.

Here's our selection from the list:

1. Open data and AI: A symbiotic relationship for progress: Data is a critical component of AI systems. This data story highlights the connection between open data and AI performance with real-life use cases.
2. City of Salinas drives transparency and collaboration through open data: To promote collaboration and become truly data-driven, the City of Salinas aims to make data a central part of its operations. Read their success story published by Open Data Soft to learn how they ensure up-to-date, relevant information is shared, contributing to increased transparency and more effectiveness.
3. Driving change with smart city mobility data sharing: Open data can support the physical infrastructure of cities to optimise transportation. Read this Open Data Soft blog to find out how data sharing increases transparency, collaboration and efficiency, enabling smart city mobility.
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Предпосылки для развитого сектора высоких технологий в Армении были всегда. К сожалению, удручающая экономическая ситуация 1990-х и утечка мозгов привели к растрате мощного потенциала, но, судя по темпам развития IT-сектора в Армении, инновационное мышление и профессиональные знания и навыки, передававшиеся из поколения в поколение, лишь ждали своего часа, чтобы проявиться снова.


Сегодня хотим поделиться с вами прекрасным проектом IT-музея DataArt – виртуальной выставкой «Математические машины Армении». Выставка повествует об армянских инженерах-электронщиках и вычислительной технике, созданной ими во второй половине XX века. Авторы проекта наглядно показывают важность разработок армянской столицы для технологического развития различных сфер жизни всей Восточной Европы. Ереванский научно-исследовательский институт математических машин разработал первую в СССР автоматизированную систему продажи ж/д билетов, самую сбалансированную машину международного проекта ЕС ЭВМ, вычислительные комплексы для стратегической авиации. Обо всём этом в переплетении с человеческими судьбами и культурой и атмосферой Еревана и Армении вы узнаете на онлайн-выставке.
September 5, 2023
Here’s an exemplary story of where to start with the buildings security planning.
An article at Urban Spatial Analysis pinpoints buildings in Philadelphia in need of city inspection and creates a data visualization to communicate these findings. In Armenia, where security is also about improper building standards threatening in cases of earthquakes and bombings, such study would be a more challenging, especially due to the lack of data, but also a more useful task to accomplish.
September 9, 2023