The "Civil Society for Open Data at the local level" initiative is a continuation of the activities of the Belgrade Open School (BOS) in advocacy for redesign of information booklets and publishing of information booklets in a machine readable open data format. The Initiative is part of the “Open Data - Open Opportunities” project implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The initiative is going to be implemented in a period from 1 July by 31 December 2017.

The goal of the initiative is to strengthen local communities for the use of open data in order to improve the lives of citizens. The Initiative is particularly focused on the development of digital information booklets in selected local governments, which at the same time represent pilots for utilization of the application for the development of open data information booklets. Also, the initiative encourages utilization of generated open data sets from information booklets by local civil society organizations.

The final outcome of the project will be several successful case studies of open data utilization at the local level.

The Belgrade Open School (BOS), together with the Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA), provides mentoring and support to civil society, through activities implemented by UNDP.