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dimensions, decreasing from 78 % in 2021 to 71 % in 2022. This drop of seven percentage points is in line with the methodological restructuring of the dimension, which also makes it difficult to perfectly compare the 2022 indicators with those of previous years. Furthermore, this result should not be considered so much as a decrease in the level of maturity of the countries in the EU. The fact that these countries continue to score highly on the strategic awareness indicator—which was also used in the 2021 assessment— demonstrates that the EU-27 remains very interested in understanding open data reuse and value creation, as noted in the trends in last year’s assessment. In contrast, the decrease in the impact dimension provides a more accurate picture of the difficulty EU countries have in distinguishing and evaluating open data reuse and the resulting impact. While they remain quite advanced in tracking and measuring reuse (the EU average is 75 %, the same as last year), collecting data on the impact created, especially from an economic perspective, seems to be more difficult for said countries. • In a post-pandemic world, European countries face both new and old common challenges. From year to year, EU Member States have been recovering from the pandemic, for example, by leveraging open data for the development of statistics, dashboards and alert applications. In 2022, the Russian attack against Ukraine and the consequences of this conflict for the European economy and the energy market laid the foundations for new socioeconomic challenges across Europe. Ukraine has reported that the war has had a significant impact on its work on open data, especially as Ukraine’s internet resources (in particular those that are state-owned) have been
temporarily unavailable. The vast majority (18) of the EU-27 Member States are above the EU-27 average. The level of open data maturity has been improving. The potential of open data was also used by other countries in Europe to respond to the consequences of the war in Ukraine. For example, some countries have reported using open data to monitor the level of energy use or to facilitate the integration of Ukrainian refugees into their labour markets. Figure 2 presents the overall open data maturity scores for each of the 35 countries participating in the 2022 assessment, according to the Open Data Maturity Report.
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