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The monitoring of the government bodies’ official websites is a research evaluating the state of the official web portals in order to assess the openness/closeness of individual governmental agencies and the state in general, evaluate their inclination to corruption and also to assess the citizens’ possibilities to get access to information on activities of government bodies and bodies of local self-government.

The principle tool used in the monitoring of government bodies’ official websites is a method for evaluating information accessibility of the official websites. The suggested method allows to calculate basic indicators that show the actual state of affairs with implementing information technologies in the government bodies operation and with obeying the requirements set by the Federal laws “On Providing Access to Information On Activities of Government Bodies and Bodies of Local Self-Government” and “On Providing Access to Information on Activities of Courts in the Russian Federation”.

The methodology has been tested in the research work performed by the Institute for Information Freedom Development, including that within governmental contract of the Russian Federation.