Tbilisi. An easily accessible public information datasets on a wide variety of public policy and finance topics obtained from over 150 public institutions in Georgia - on February 28, 2018 the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) held the presentation of a new open data platform - www.DataLab.ge.

''Allowing people to receive public documents held by state institutions serves as an important tool for fighting corruption, making governments more efficient and accountable to the society, encouraging investment, and helping persons exercise their fundamental human rights. Therefore, I think that the new platform – www.DataLab.ge is a significant step forward for the Georgian people to have easy access to public information from state institutions'' - said Giorgi Kldiashvili.

Source: idfi.ge