“The state has accumulated a lot of valuable data that is scattered across many systems and registers. Our aim is to consolidate and bring this data into a common space where we can 'put it to work' in data-driven decision-making, research and digital innovation," said Aušrinė Armonaitė, the Minister of the Economy and Innovation.
By the summer of 2026, all key data managed by the state will be integrated into a single data lake – the State Data Management Information System (SDMS IS). The public sector data integration project will be carried out by Statistics Lithuania (from 2023 – the State Data Agency), with more than €18.7 million earmarked for this purpose.
"In this system, data will be managed from the very beginning - its collection – to the end - its use for legitimate purposes and its opening on the Lithuanian Open Data Portal. The entire data management cycle will be overseen by a single host, allowing us to ensure easily accessible, seamless and reliable public sector data in one place," said Deputy Minister of the Economy and Innovation Eglė Markevičiūtė.
The SDMS IS is a common data space based on a data management platform, which enables fast and flexible use of data for various analytical purposes and sharing of publicly available, high-quality and relevant data, dashboards and analyses with the public. It is the basis for strategic decision-making, research, exchange, sharing, creation and publication of new high-level datasets on the Lithuanian Open Data Portal.
Currently, there are 134 different managers and 166 administrators managing 95 public registers and 275 public information systems. In the implementation of the project, all the data from these registers and systems will be moved to the SDMS IS data lake, where it will be analysed, merged and made ready for opening.
Currently, the SDMS IS is used to manage data on emergencies such as pandemics, illegal immigration, Ukrainian war refugees, to develop modules for assessing the income and the tax environment of micro-enterprises and self-employed persons, to address other analytical tasks, to produce statistics, and to develop scoreboards for strategic indicators.
This common state data ecosystem already contains data from more than 40 national information systems, registers or departmental databases.
