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Open government and innovative education in Italy:
OpenCoesione and OpenCoesione School
Carlo Amati – OpenCoesione Steering Committee
Open Data Youth Camp Croatia (#openyouth) Rovinj, 29 August – 2 September 2015
Adaptation ofOpen government diagram
by Armel Le Coz and Cyril Lagereleased under Creative Commons
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“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”Memorandum on transparency and open government (21.01.2009)
“We are sending a strong signal to administrations today. Your data is worth more if you give it away. So start releasing it now: Taxpayers have already paid for this information, the least we can do is give it back to those who want to use it in new ways that help people and create jobs and growth.”
Open Data Strategy for Europe (12.12.2011)
Open government champions
G8 leaders signed the Open Data Charter on 18 June 2013.The Open Data Charter sets out 5 strategic principles that all G8 members will act on (data published openly by default, quality increase, re-use of data) in order to unlock the economic potential of open data, support innovation and provide greater accountability.
OGP was launched in 2011 to provide an international platform for domestic reformers committed to making their governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. In participating countries, government and civil society are working together to develop and implement ambitious open government reforms.
The new Public Sector Information Directive (17 July 2013)makes accessing public data from any level within the EU:- cheaper (with fees, if anything, set at just marginal costs)- easy to use, with automatic right to re-use- wider in scope (valuable cultural material, from libraries, archives and museums)
Major international initiatives
European Union: strong heterogeneity
© EuroGeographics Association for the administrative boundaries
Europe 2020 index4 EU headline targets (2012)
Source: EU DG Regio, Regional Focus 01/2015100 = meets or exceed all targetsUE Average = 71,4
Italian Constitution (art. 119):“In order to promote economic development and cohesion … the State shall allocate additional resources”.
Cohesion policy aims at reducing disparities GDP per capita Youth unemployment rateIn Italy and in Europe
2007-2013Total ~ 100 bn€ (27 from EU)
900K+ projects and 90K+ bodies All over Italy (although mostly in the South)in many different policy sectorsin order to reduce disparities, attract business and enhance opportunities and the quality of services
EU funds + national cohesion fund
ERDFESF
2014-2020More developed regionsTransition regionsLess developed regions
+ 20 bn€ national cofinancing+ national cohesion fund
~31 bnfrom EU
• Profound awareness within administration of benefits of open data (pre-existing examples)• Political insight on benefits of transparency: not a challenge but an opportunity• Quick responsiveness of administration to political input• A national unitary monitoring system (available since 2007)
A strong drive towards publication of open data, but OpenCoesione is not just following the trend: it is a major communication operation based on transparency that calls for participation by citizens and aims at increasing the effectiveness of cohesion policy.
Enabling factors
Adaptation ofOpen government diagram
by Armel Le Coz and Cyril Lagereleased under Creative Commons
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The web portal (as of 31.8.2015)
Open data licence to support re-use
Information about projects undertaken for implementing regional policies:
• description• funding (amount and sources)• locations• thematic areas• public/private subjects involved• deployment timing
100+ variables for each project in open data section (CSV)+ access via API
www.opencoesione.gov.it
Projects and funds (total or subets accoding to user’s queries)Interactive graphsfor immediate distributionof investment and number of projects by nature and policy theme
Interactive tableon investment by nature and policy theme
Direct search of public authorities in charge for programming and other recipients of projectsDirect access to locations through interactive maps and search to discoverthe number of projects undertaken,the amount of overall investments in the place and the list of projects
Top projects listingin home page (most recently completed and largest financially)
Periodical insights and short focuses
What is in the web portal?OpenCoesione homepage
In the footer, available throughout the portal, links to English contents:• Introduction to OpenCoesione• FAQs
Soon bilingual, for now…
Some contents in English
3 years of operation (July 2012-July 2015)
• 3.1 million page views
• 930K sessions
• 740K new visitors
• 4.4% from abroad (BE, UK, DE, US, …) • 2 minutes: average time of the visit
Access to the web portal
Territorial indicators to make connections between projects and the issues they should impact on.
Beyond project data
Short focuses and analyses
Survey on the transparency of lists of beneficiaries of Operational Programmes in Europe
Openness and transparency: a priority in the EUcohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/
www.strukturnifondovi.hr
ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/projects/map/
functions
Indices of openness and transparency of lists of beneficiaries of the 2007-2013 Structural Funds in Europe (source: OpenCoesione)
Adaptation ofOpen government diagram
by Armel Le Coz and Cyril Lagereleased under Creative Commons
Attribution terms
Slow pace in implementing cohesion policy Low absorption rates of the fundsUnderstanding whether policy is effective
Availability of open data on public spending is the base to successfully build transparency, increase accountability and overcome a long history of mistrust in many different development projects all around the world.
Why should citizens be involved?
OPEN DATA, DATA JOURNALISM, CIVIC MONITORING AND COHESION POLICY.SINCE 2013 IN ITALIAN HIGH-SCHOOLS.
Partnership with EC Representation in Italy and Europe Direct Information CentresCollaboration with “ASOC Friends” (selected civil society organisations)
www.ascuoladiopencoesione.it
OpenCoesione School: the project
OpenCoesione School (ASOC) is an innovative interdisciplinary educational project aimed at high school students. By working on a storytelling research based on cohesion projects, they experience how cohesion policy affects their own neighbourhoods.
METHOD● Online MOOC with support materials and community● Distance learning for teachers● Territorial networks of experts on cohesion policy thematic areas or transversal issues
OBJECTIVES● Promote the principles of aware citizenship ● Encourage responsible use of ICT, including open data, and social media● Foster civic monitoring of public funding
Raising a new generation of civic awareness
OpenCoesione School in six steps
plan
focus
analyse explore
tell
engage
SCHOOLS
ASSOCIATIONS
~ 80 schools ~ 2000 students Winner teamOpenCoesione School 2014/2015
High school students as civic reporters
Students monitor the time schedule of local trains
Sicily’s regional agency opens up the transport data for all!
Local transportation in Palermo:from citizen monitoring to open data
Readaptation of an old palace
Government
Open Data
Portals
Citizen monitorin
g
Administrative data
Open Data +visualizations
Evidence,Ideas,
suggestions
Media
A paradigm for citizen monitoring
top-down
bottom-up
meso-level
GOVERNMENT
CIVIL SOCIETY
Monithon is an independent initiative for citizen monitoring of cohesion policy projects in Italy based on the open data from OpenCoesione
www.monithon.it
Monithon: Fostering civic monitoring
Moni-thon (from mara-thon and hacka-thon) is a civic monitoring marathon: groups of citizens map out the projects funded by cohesion policy in their town or area, select a theme or another specific feature and they go on the spot to see what the project in really about and check on its implmentation. The evidence is uploaded into a common platform.
Monithon: citizens at work
Managing Authorities
Citizen monitori
ng
Monitoring data
APIs
Citizen Monitoring
Reports
Media
Citizen monitoring oncohesion policy in Italy
The community “Monithon Piemonte” is watching the progress of the renovation of the museum
The Director has met the crew and has implemented some the suggestions receivedNow working on a documentary on the improvements realized through the EU funding
Monitoring the renovation of the Egyptian Museum in Turin
The association “Libera” promotes citizen monitoring of the projects aimed at re-using for social purposes assets confiscated to organised crime
Today ~ 7000 assets
A working group of central and local administrations is active to use the data to design specific actions
Co-decisions on reuse of confiscated assets
Uni-directional Multi-directional(processing feedback)
The authoritytells the story
The citizenstell the story
Selectinggood practices
Solving problemstogether
Publicity Collaboration. Involving local communities
Aggregated facts & figures
Going into the details:Reinforcing trustthrough real openness
A different way of communicating
Open government and open data: where we are now in ItalyFlagship open data projects Other projects
Open Government PartnershipThe final ranking
OpenCoesione – Monithon scores 1. Credibility of partnerships: 24.4/30 (top initiative)2. Evidence of results: 22.0/30 (top initiative)3. Sustainability: 19.9/304. Depth of engagement: 19.2/30
OGP pledge to support other countries on civic engagement Positive evaluation of civil society, positive IRM evaluation
G8 Open Data Charter
Source: Open Data in the G8 – A review of Progress on the G8 Open Data CharterA report published by www2.datainnovation.org/2015-open-data-g8.pdf
Country Total Score OGP membershipUnited Kingdom 90Canada 80United States 80France 65Italy 35Japan 30 NoGermany 25 NoRussia 5 No Weak
Strong
Intermediate
Italy’s score breakdown 1. Open data by default: 10/20 (on average)2. Ensure high quality and quantity of data: 10/20 (on average)3. Make data usable by all: 15/20 (on average)4. Release data for improved governance: 0/20 (poor performance)5. Release data for innovation: 0/20 (poor performance)
Published by
(January 2015)
… a long way to go
Open data and open government …
1987
We know the future of mobile phones… and OG?
You can send text messages of up to 160 characters between mobile phones1987
2015
Web portal, open data and APIs: www.opencoesione.gov.it
Documents and videos: http://opencoesione.gov.it/scopri/
OpenCoesione school project:www.ascuoladiopencoesione.it
Citizen monitoring platform:www.monithon.it
Links to try for yourselves
For updates on OpenCoesioneyou can subscribe to the mailing
list:
www.opencoesione.gov.it/segui
www.opencoesione.gov.it opencoesione@dps.gov.it
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