AIS returns to its tradition of Datathon and Hackathon Albania. This November we started working with a group of young people for the DataThon that will be held in January 2023. DataThon comes from the words Data and Marathon. They are events where people meet to work together on an idea and to collect, analyze, visualize and communicate findings related to data. AIS has previously…
How does the Government Spend the Taxpayers’ Money? Our well-structured Treasury Transactions database enables the monitoring of all payments that state institutions make to third parties. Currently, we have data on each payment made in 10 years. The data is obtained through the access to information from the Treasury Department. They are placed in a system where anyone can easily find, use and reuse them…
The Open Data Albania portal continuously publishes data related to Gender Balance Statistics in the country. Articles are listed under the Gender Relations topic. The latest data published are related to the gender balance in sectors and fields such as Demography, Education, Public Representation and Penal Policy by gender groups. The data assist in identifying ratios and development of gender groups, revealing also economic and social imbalances.…
In 2021, a number of 123,880 students were enrolled in Albanian universities, of which 94,487 (76%) were students studying in public higher education institutions and the rest, 29,393 students, in non-public higher education institutions. Source: INSTAT Comments and Analyses: Open Data Albania Whereas, on the same year, there were 32,690 students that graduated, 24,402 (75%) of which in public HEIs and 8,288 (25%) in non-public…
In 2021, the number of students registered in all institutions of higher education in Albania, whether public or non-public, is 123,880. Of these, 73,493 (59%) are girls and the rest, 50,387, are boys (41%). The majority of Albanian youth studies “business, administration and law”, of which, specifically for 2021, there are 32,227 students registered in these profiles, among them 19,180 (61%) are girls and 12,417…
Empowering young people against corruption – this is the goal for which we created a group of young people, part of the OpenDataYouthNetwork, a year ago. In October, this team was trained on several important topics in anti-corruption analysis. Civic education and strengthening FactChecking Models on accountability are two important aspects of the organization’s activities and projects. The work with young people and the expansion…
On May 14, 2023, the local elections will be held in 61 municipalities of the country. AIS, based on previous election monitoring, estimates that there is a high risk of distortion of the electoral will through misuse of public funds during the elections period. A few days before voting for the April 2021 parliamentary elections, the state budget was shifted from Public Works fund to the…
Open Data Albania is updating the data regarding the operation of Television Media in the country. The research highlights the number of licenses by category held by television media and the commercial entities who own these screens. The data used in the analyses was obtained from the Audiovisual Media Authority AMA and the National Recording Center NKR. In Albania, televisions are categorized based on the…
Open Data Albania is updating the 2021 data on the current state of convicts in the Institutions for the Execution of Penal Decisions. The data were collected from the Statistical Yearbooks of the Ministry of Justice, detailing the number of women and girls convicted based on the criminal offense or specific article breached. The criminality among women, according to the 2021’s Judicial Decisions constitutes 5.5…
Open Data is probing into the domestic net production of Electricity data, regarding both Public and Private Producers, as well as Concessionair companies. The data was extracted from the Energy Regulatory Entity (ERE) Electricity Market Reports for the January-August 2022 period. Currently, domestic electricity production consists of two main components: The production carried out by companies with state capital, like KESH sh.a. and Lanabregas sh.a.,…
Open Data Albania is studying the Turnover, Gross Profit Margin for 13 Businesses that implement concessionary projects or Public Private Partnerships, supported from the State Budget. Out of 13 concessionary PPP companies, that implement concessionary projects with budget support, only 9 of them have submitted and published the Financial Statements for 2021, in line with the existing legal requirements. Until October 2022, 4 of them…
The AIS organization initiated a Lawsuit in September 2021 for the Constitutional Court requesting the Repeal as unconstitutional of a law that regulates Contracts for the Reconstruction Program after the Earthquake. The lawsuit of the organization AIS/Open Data Albania sought the Partial Repeal of Law no. 97/2019 for the adoption of the normative Act with the power of Law no. 9 / 2019 of the…
The organization AIS / Open Data Albania has been working with a group of students and young professionals for a year, creating a Fellowship program for empowering young people in Anti-corruption matters. This includes events held during the year such as work sessions; discussion forums; internships with the organization’s team; training and other networking events. On the weekend of October 22nd and 23rd, members of…
The minimum vital shows the figure that allows a citizen or household (in the case where the data is taken per household) to live a subsistence level of life. Different countries have different vital minimum values. The European Union uses the poverty risk threshold indicator to measure the minimum vital. The poverty risk threshold is calculated at the value of 60% of the equalized median…
In the four years, 2018 – 2021, 1120 researchers were accredited with a post-graduate degree of Doctor of Science in Albanian Universities. Of these, 713 weree women, or 64% of the total, as opposed to the 36% that were men, or 407 researchers. Table: Number of “Doctorate or equivalent” graduates by gender Source: INSTAT Comments and Analyses: Open Data Albania Source: INSTAT Comments and Analyses:…
