What has happened over these years? Let's start with some traditional statistics:

• Almost 20 million user sessions across all platform portals;
• Spending.gov.ua now contains 93 million documents (contracts, acts, reports);
• Nearly 242 million transactions and budget commitments totaling 300 billion UAH have been published;
• More than 56,000 organization, enterprise, and association accounts are registered on the platform, including over 34,000 budget funds administrators and recipients of all levels;
• Openbudget.gov.ua contains information on 1,079 local budgets;
• Ukraine ranked 3rd in the Open Data Maturity ranking among European countries last year with a score of 96% (https://data.europa.eu), largely thanks to the E-Data platform’s contributions.

The E-Data platform continues to serve as one of the key sources of information in the fight against corruption and remains an accessible tool for public oversight of the planning and use of public funds. Every day, media publish reports citing data from the Spending and Openbudget portals, and the public uses platform data for analysis, planning, and monitoring the actions of local administrations. Increasingly, higher education institutions, postgraduate education, business schools, and specialized courses are incorporating lessons on using E-Data portals and public finance open data into their curricula.

Over the past year, Spending.gov.ua introduced a separate section on the legal and financial obligations of budget funds managers and recipients, linked to transactions published on the portal and referencing tenders on prozorro.gov.ua. The transaction search window was extended from 90 days to one year. Additionally, the Telegram bot "Ministry of Finance Public Funds" (@MinistryOnlineBot) launched, providing quick access to public finance information from the E-Data platform.

In the near future, the platform plans to offer English-language versions of the portals to make the platform accessible to international audiences.

So today, we congratulate everyone involved in the idea, creation, and administration of the E-Data platform! We thank each and every one of you who worked in the past or continue to contribute to the digitalization and transparency of public finance data! We, the technical administration team at the State Institution "Open Public Finances," also extend our gratitude to all E-Data users for your ongoing dialogue and suggestions. We will continue to improve and enhance the platform!

For reference: The platform, overseen by the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine (https://edata.gov.ua), integrates three key open data portals: Spending.gov.ua, Openbudget.gov.ua, Proifi.gov.ua, and other modules for analyzing and tracking public finances. The platform launched on September 15, 2015, in accordance with the Law "On Transparency of Public Funds Use."