Launched on 19 April 2017, Open Data Tirana was created by the Municipality of Tirana with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); the municipality describes it as Albania’s first municipal open-data portal.2 Its purpose is to make information about the capital freely accessible, supporting public transparency and giving residents, businesses, researchers and developers material they can use to understand the city and develop solutions to local problems.19
The portal brings together more than 15 dataset groups, spanning areas such as demographics, transport, construction, public safety, agriculture, tourism and culture, as well as municipal planning, transparency, business and the economy.16 Its contents include both statistical information and updates on city services and activity. For example, the site reports population figures, describes public transport and cycling developments, and provides agricultural and livestock statistics.111
The data are intended to be available for download and use in informational, academic, research and journalistic work; the municipality says they are updated on an ongoing basis.9 The portal also has a practical role inside local government: Tirana’s 2026 annual plan identifies dataset refreshes and improvements to the portal’s fields and content as continuing work.4 The Open Government Partnership has noted that the information can help the municipality identify priorities and support policy decisions, as well as assist researchers.3
The portal’s public-facing material does not identify individual project leads or describe a single data-collection method. Instead, it presents information across municipal subject areas and refers to data from relevant city institutions—for example, public-safety information from the Municipal Police and Fire and Rescue service.1 The available sources establish the launch date, municipal ownership and UNDP support, but do not specify a formal end date or