Only 14 of the 41 state institutions published new information on the governmental portal date.gov.md in June-December 2013, shows a report on the most open public institutions. The study was made by independent expert Dumitru Lazur and presented by the Independent Journalism Center in a news conference at IPN.

The top three public institutions with the largest number of sets of open data published in the period are: the Licensing Chamber (16 sets); the State Tax Service (14); the Ministry of Transport and Road Infrastructure (12); the Ministry of Health (11); the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Customs Service (by 9).

The report author said that the 14 institutions together placed 90 sets of new data. Four central public authorities published no set of data since the launch of date.gov.md, in April 2011. These are: the Agency of Medicines; the Center of Accreditation in the field of Product Conformity Assessment; the National Public Health Center, and the National Blood Transfusion Center.

Dumitru Lazur said the institutions that published no information said their data are stored in the portfolio of the Ministry of Health, even if they were recommended to use their own profiles for a better systematization of the information.

Director of the Independent Journalism Center Nadine Gogu said this report will be submitted to all the monitored institutions. She voiced hope that when the project is completed, the institutions will continue to publish data without the supervision of civil society. After the first report of the kind was made public, a number of institutions published information on the portal. Thus, the pressure of civil society had a positive influence.

The report was produced within the Open Government for an Informed and Active Society Project that is implemented by the Independent Journalism Center and the Association for Participatory Democracy  ADEPT between March 2013 and March 2014, on the initiative and with the financial support of Soros Foundation Moldova.