Download pdf - Prato Paolo Boscolo 2018-01-25 - majorcities.eu · 7kh vwdwh ri wkh duw lq froohfwlqj sxeolvklqj dqg lq irvwhulqj wkh xvh ri 2shq 'dwd dw 3udwr &lw\ &rxqflo 3dror %rvfror 5hvs ,&7

$Page 1: Prato Paolo Boscolo 2018-01-25 - majorcities.eu · 7kh vwdwh ri wkh duw lq froohfwlqj sxeolvklqj dqg lq irvwhulqj wkh xvh ri 2shq 'dwd dw 3udwr &lw\ &rxqflo 3dror %rvfror 5hvs ,&7$
The state of the art in collecting, publishing and in fostering the use of Open Data at

Prato City Council

Paolo Boscolo:

Resp. ICT InfrastructureManagement & EU projects

2018-01-25 Florence – MCE workshop

CITY PROFILE

• 192.000 inhabitants (250.000 Province area)

• Declining textile Industry

• Emerging ICT sector

• Strong immigration (Big Chinese community)


CITY PROFILE / 2

• Partner in many eGov Projects (EU, National, Regional level)

• City Council IT infrastructure:

• 1.400 workplaces 1.400

• 25 sites spread in the city area 25

• Internal IT management

• Some Public companies (utilities) with their own ICT depts


Open Data at Prato City Council

• Governance

• Platform

• Achievements

• Issues



• Governance

• Platform

• Achievements

• Issues


Open Data at Prato City Council(The Governance / 1)

• The “Digital Adminstration Law” (rev. 2017)• Open License by default

• New SW have to be Open Data ready

• Open Data activity is part of performance evaluation for PA managers

• National Open Data repository (doati.gov.it)

• City Council deliberation 130/2014• Guidelines

• CC-BY License


Open Data at Prato City Council(The Governance)

• City Board deliberation 37/2014• Internal working group for Open Data publishing

• Participation to OpenDataNetwork initiative http://www.opendatanetwork.it

• Annual plan for Open Data publishing activity

• Working group activity and ICT dept• 2014 - set-up of open-data-network publishing platform

• 2015 - first set of 32 Open Data set published (http://odn.comune.prato.it)

• 2015 – kick-off of Route-to-Pa project (http://www.routetopa.eu)

• 2016-2017 – 137 Data set published

• 2016-2017 – Route-to-PA pilots

• 2017 – Data Set harvested by the National Open data Portal



• Governance

• Platform

• Achievements

• Issues


THE OPEN DATA

• Multilateral agreement signed among LAs

• Creation of an multi-level Open data sharing infrastructure

• Based on a standard CKAN platform and Prato City Council GIS platform based on OpenGIS SW

Prato Province coordination initiative(OPENDATANETWORK)



TOLOMEO Portal (OpenGIS based)


The Route-to-PA project

• 12 Partners

– Researchers,

– Industry,

– Pilot sites

• 6 Countries

• 3 M€ budget

• 3 Products

• 4 Research areas


The Route-to-PA platforms

Social Platform for Open Data

Toolkit for transparency Good practices and

recommendations


Social Platform for Open Data


The Route-to-PA platforms

• A social environment to collaborate over and co-create Open Data

• A “traditional” social platform (friends, etc.) +• An ecosystem of reusable components (datalets) for

visualizing Open Data, with an easy-to-use creation wizard• An Agorà of open rooms, where discussion is around

topics, with advanced visualizations• Co-creation private rooms (by invitation) where groups can

co-create data or knowledge documents• Blogs publicly accessible


SPOD: the newsfeed


SPOD: the Agora’


SPOD: a room, with a datalet


The wizard for the datalet


Co-creation room


Public blog


How SPOD addressesthe Open Pyramid


The full Prato platform features(Summary)

1. Master data publishing (CKAN/Geo-server of ODN)2. Route-to-PA

1. Indexing dataset through harvesting on TET2. Blogging and “Data Driven” discussions on SPOD3. Data set Co-creation on SPOD4. On-field Data collection App for SPOD co-creation

3. Harvesting on ODN master web-site4. Harvesting on dati.gov.it5. Harvesting on dati.torscana.it (ongoing)


Just a look on the platform

http://odn.comune.prato.it

http://prato.routetopa.eu



• Governance

• Platform

• Achievements

• Issues


The Route-to-PA piloting

1. First round (2016-2017)1. Discussion on city WiFi infrastructure expansion

2. Second round (2017-2018)1. Tabernacle (using the SPOD App)2. Cuty Budget3. App

3. Free activities (2015-2018)1. Data set request collection2. Other discussions using published datasets


The WiFi pilot


The WiFi pilot – the decision tree


The pilot on Tabernacle mapping





• 5 classroom involved (middle school)• 270 tabernacle already mapped by students• 2 blogs already started on the topic

• The platform has been used by the University of Salerno (Route-to-PA coordinator) for other mapping activities in many other fields all related to the preservation of the cultural heritage


The pilot on City Budget• Planned from February 2018• Example of “Monitorial Democracy”• dataset supporting this pilot already published

• Forecast / Final Balance since 2010• Link to supporting material• List of City council contracts since 2012• Deliberations• …


The pilot on City Budget / 2

• Politicians will prepare discussion material• Community manager will stimulate discussion• Stakeholders/citizens invited to contribute

• 1. Politicians: majority and opposition• 2. Organization of businesses• 3. Associations• 4. Schools (economic curriculum)

• Promotion of discussion on popular Social Network


Achievements

1. A significant initial number of Data set published2. Good interaction with other important Open Data portal3. Commitment at political level obtained4. Availability of a publishing platform with many feature5. Internal awareness of what Open Data are6. Involvement of external users 200+ registered users7. Some replicable usage of the platform identified8. New instrument for citizens participation available



• Governance

• Platform

• Achievements

• Issues


• Scarce commitment in data publishing by employees• The Open Data publishing is seen ad an “overhead”• Difficulties in the identification of possible new data set• Reluctance of ICT analyst to consider Open Data interfaces in

SW packages• Lack of automatic publishing processes• Needs of ICT support in data “correction” & “adaptation”• Resistance to changes in data publishing procedures (new OD

platform)• Lack recognition of the value of Open Data publishing also by

politicians (just a “fashionable” activity)• Strong reluctance from census data specialists

Issues(the internal reaction)


• The “audience” interested to Open Data seems smalls• No clear identification of largely requested data set• Underestimation of needed efforts in the Data Set requests• Lack of standard for contents, formats and semantics• Open Data users are (at moment) only curious ICT

specialists not businesses• Difficulties also for skilled user to ignite/participate in

discussions around Open Data - Better response on co-creation

• Incoherent reaction from Politicians: They need OD But don’t like free access/discussion to them

Issues(the external reaction)


Conclusions• Publishing platforms already mature (from the technical

point of view) but still difficult for “normal people”• Standard for Matadata still unclear (DCAT, INSPIRE, RNDT,.)

with dialects and local variants• Only de-facto standard API• Authoring and data updating problems• Licensing (CC-BY not always possible)• Lack of really impacting and convincing business cases• Lack of Open Data “plugs” in commercial SW• Huge efforts in publishing activity respect the measured

effects

• Open Data Publishing seen more as a legal obligation or fashionable activity than as “useful service”


Thanks for your attention

Paolo Boscolo:

Resp. ICT InfrastructureManagement & EU projects

e-mail: [email protected]