OUR TEAM
Andreja Gluščević
Open Data Coordinator, Office for Information Technologies and eGovernment
Andreja is a person that walks and breathes data. She joined the open data initiative very early. Through the engagement in various projects, she was mostly in contact with local governments and the focus of her work lately was the opening of local-level data. She participated in the preparation of a study on the local self-governments’ readiness to open data. She is the co-author of two publications on open data and is responsible for the standardization of open data format for local budgets and preparation of transport data in the GTFS standard. One of her strengths is expertise in data visualization using BI tools. Her motto is: “Open data requires open people”.
Zoran Đorđević
The Open Data portal Administrator, Office for Information Technologies and eGovernment
He’s been a part of the team for the Development and Maintenance of the National Open Data portal since 2017.
He was also involved in improving and redesigning the portal with active work on its promotion during 2018 and 2019.
The Portal migration from one infrastructure to another didn’t avoid his engagement and coordination between Office for IT and e-Government and Telekom Serbia.
There are numerous lectures on open data, as well as guest appearances at public forums and gatherings on open data.
Working on the Open Data Portal is still one of his central activities in the Office.
Lazar Kuzmanović
Lazar Kuzmanovic was born in 1994 in Belgrade. He made his first contact with data at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, where he studied the areas of data analysis in the SPSS and R programs. In November 2020, he started working with the Office for Information Technology and e-Government within the eHealth project, where he actively participated in the development of the Electronic health record. Part of the Open Data for Sustainable Development project team and the Open data portal in general. He generates and updates reports in Power BI.
“Data can make fairy tales come true, but only if you let your imagination set free”.
Sanja Arizanović
Sanja Arizanovic is a project coordinator in UNDP, where she coordinates the Open Data related projects. She’s graduated at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. Since 2013 she is active in the field of the public administration reform, through work in civil society sector, and since 2017 she works on introducing open data in Serbia and putting Serbia on a global open data map. She held numerous learning courses on transparency of public administration and open data related topics, for different stakeholders. Sanja is a author of several policy papers, and she is a member of the Working group for the implementation of the Open Government Partnership in Serbia.
Katarina Kosmina
Katarina Kosmina returned to Serbia to do research on open data supply and demand in 2015, following 7 years of education abroad (Northwestern university, Sciences Po Paris, Central European University). Since then, she has intensively worked on open data and the community created around it in Serbia – currently as a Project Coordinator at UNDP. She is one of the authors of the Open Data Guide, she organized two Open Data Weeks, and created numerous educational programs related to data analysis and visualization.
Željko Kojić
Zeljko Kojic is a UNDP IT Expert, engaged in the open data initiative since its beginning, where he works with open data portals for number of government institutions, connecting them with the National Open Data Portal. As a data and system architect, Zeljko provides mentorship for the Office for IT and eGovernment, maintaining national open data portal and harvesting datasets from number of different sources. He’s been engaged in the Open Data Working Group. In addition to his work within the Open Data Initiative, in UNDP Zeljko works for a number of other projects, within the Techcell unit.
Slobodan Marković
Slobodan Marković is a Digital Advisor with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Serbia. For the past two decades, he has been actively involved in advocating for and developing ICT policies in Serbia. Prior to joining UNDP, he worked at the Serbian National Internet Domains Registry (RNIDS) as an Advisor for ICT Policy and Internet Community Relations. From 2014 to 2017, he was a member of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), which advises the UN Secretary-General on the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). From 2008 to 2012, he worked at the Serbian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society, advising the Minister on telecoms liberalization, e-government, and e-business policy. In 2010, he received the “e-Commerce AWARD” for his ten-year dedication to the development of the e-business in Serbia.
OUR EXPERTS
Branko Kovač
Branko Kovač is a data scientist with years-long experience in data science application in various industries, currently employed at Magna International company. Branko is one of the pioneers of Serbian data science community brought together around Data Science Serbia association. He has been a member of the Open Data Working Group since 2017. In 2018, his Logikka consulting firm was one of the winners in an open data challenge organised by UNDP with its project for visualisation of breast cancer screening data. Branko has also conducted workshops on the use of open data in business in Serbia and countries in the region.
Tatjana Kecojević
Tatjana is a data scientist with a doctorate in Statistics from the University of Manchester. She spent many years working in the U.K. university sector as a senior lecturer and has published an extensive number of articles and papers relating to data analysis. Tatjana established the chapters of R-Ladies Manchester, Belgrade and Novi Sad and is a member of the R Forwards team and a Women in DS (WiDS) ambassador – roles dedicated to empowering women. Currently, she is the director of SisterAnalyst.org, an organisation aiming to empower women from a diverse range of backgrounds through data literacy. In addition to her involvement supporting women in STEM related activities, she is dedicated to creating an inclusive culture by developing community initiatives supporting all underrepresented groups.
Tijana Blagojev
Tijana Blagojev completed ‘Politics, Big Dana and Quantitative Methods’ master’s programme at the University of Warwick. She is active in the fields of media policies and open data initiative, helping media organisations and experts to collect and consolidate data, as well as with analysis and visualisation in R-programming language. Tijana is an R-Ladies Belgrade co-organiser and promotes data literacy through R-programming language workshops, particularly for journalists and social sciences students. Please find more information related to specific projects on he github page.
Igor Spasić
For over two decades, as a professional, Igor has been developing and designing software system architecture. He has had many opportunities to work in diverse business environments and industries, applying various technological solutions. Igor is an open-source and open-data advocate. He has worked on preparation, opening and use of data through various APIs. Igor is also committed to education, organising lectures and workshops. In his leisure time, Igor is reflecting on the scope and reach of technologies, and posts his reflections in a blog.
Vojislav Jović
Born in 1981, in Belgrade, Vojislav earned his spatial planning graduate degree at the Belgrade University Faculty of Geography. He heard about GIS at his faculty and soon realised that this could be the right calling for him, coupling formal education with good knowledge of information technologies acquired through practising his hobby since childhood. Igor has been dealing with geographic information systems (GIS) for the past twenty years, most often as a participant in many projects commissioned for the most part by local self-government units, in his capacity as a contractor on behalf of private companies, as well as a consultant and auditor on behalf of UNOPS. In addition, he also took part in many projects as GIS expert on behalf of clients such as MISP, IUCN, Eptisa, civil society organisations, and many others.
Srđan Verbić
Srđan Verbić is a co-founder and director of Social Innovation Observatory. He is providing professional consulting and data-analysis services, particularly in the fields of education, science and innovation. Srđan teaches applied data science at the Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration (FEFA) in Belgrade. He was the initiator of opening data en masse at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development in 2015. Srđan has participated in multiple projects for processing, opening and visualisation of publicly accessible data in collaboration with many national and international organisations, particularly UNDP and UNICEF. Srđan Verbić has a physics graduate degree and a PhD in artificial intelligence earned at Belgrade University.
Jelena Adamović
Jelena Adamović is a lawyer. In the course of her career she worked at several Belgrade law firms specialising in various areas of commercial law, and now runs her own law office. Jelena was commissioned by Share Foundation as a legal consultant and researcher for digital-rights-related projects. Over time Jelena has focused in her practice on personal data protection laws, as well as other issues pertaining to regulation and data economics. She was a member of the Open Data Working Group established by the Office for IT and E-government and tasked with drafting a proposal for EU open data regulations implementation in Serbia.
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