Reporter.al/ The major beneficiaries of the Reconstruction program

Companies linked to Socialist Party officials and a handful of businesses known for winning concessions or licenses are among the biggest beneficiaries of Reconstruction tenders, while work is dragging on beyond schedule. It’s 12:00 on a sunny March day and Evelina Zguro takes advantage of her lunch break to take a look at the pit, upon which her apartment building has just started to be…

StartUp Datathon Albania, Data Marathon by AIS, promoter of Open Data

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…

Treasury transactions, 10 years of open data for each expenditure, 1900 budgetary institutions

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…

Open Data and Gender Reports, Social-economic Data on Gender Balance

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.…

Enrollment and graduation in public and private universities, from 2016 to 2021

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…

Preferences for University Studies by Gender Groups

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…

We work on Civic Education – Youth Empowerment in Anticorruption

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…

Make Elections Count. The need of monitoring the Misuse of Public Funds in Electoral Campaigns

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…