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DPS EXPLORER:
A TOOL FOR TRANSPARENCY
ON PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
Italian Ministry of Economic Development
2nd International NComVA User MeetingNorrköping, 22-23 May 2012
Carlo Amati, Simona De LucaDepartment of Development and Economic Cohesion (DPS), Italy
Introduction to context (history and domain)
A vislet-based publication for Italian Regions
Visualisation of transparency data on European Funds
Prospects
OUTLINE
OUR WALK ALONG EXPLORER
Publication of CPT Monographies
based on vislets
DPS-NCVA collaboration within the OECD Global Project on “Measuring the progress of societies”
Launch of DPS & CPT eXplorer
Open Government: a challenge for data visualisation and public transparency
2009 2010 2011 2012
Towards Open Government
TRANSPARENCY ON PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
Main objectives: understand how res publica are managed make administrators accountable empower citizens
Transparency and participation are major factors for development
What? Where
?
How much?
When?
Who?
KEY QUESTIONS
REGIONAL PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (CPT)
Financial flows (revenues and expenditures) of the wider public sector at the regional level
One of the main sources on public expenditure in Italy
When
WhereWho
WhatWhat
INFORMATION ON PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
From data to visualisation, transparency and participation
Account sheets Digitisation Machine-readable format
Regional Monographies
Vislet-based publications
eXploring CPT Monographies
CPT MONOGRAPHIES – 2011 EDITION
Collection of regional volumes, authored by the network of regional teams and coordinated by DPS
Focused on waste management and water systems
Multiple publication formats: pdf, xls, html (vislets)The dynamic version of each regional volume is a series of 11 chapters with multiple vislets.The production of approx. 500 vislets for the entire collection requires replicas for all regions with:- same visualisations- different selected regions and text and was implemented directly by DPS with custom code
LIVE DEMO:A VISLET-BASED PUBLICATION FOR ITALIAN REGIONS
www.dps.tesoro.it/cpt/cpt_monografie/2011/
eXplorer and Open Government
EXAMPLES TOWARDS OPEN GOVERNMENT /1
In response to worldwide public demand for mapping the money
EXAMPLES TOWARDS OPEN GOVERNMENT /2
In response to worldwide public demand for mapping the money
EXAMPLES TOWARDS OPEN GOVERNMENT /3
In response to worldwide public demand for mapping the money
www.
open
spen
ding
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A meta-analysis on the Managing Authorities of European Funds
TRANSPARENCY ON TRANSPARENCY
Convergence Objective Convergence Objectives (phasing out) Competitiveness and employment Objective Competitiveness and employment Objective (phasing in)
European FundsBudget 2007-2013:
~ 350 bn €
Contents1. Final beneficiary2. Project3. Axis4. Specific/operational objective5. Line of intervention6. Project description7. Payment dates8. Start/end dates9. Status (on-gioing, completed)
Financial resources1. Project cost2. Payments3. Amount of EU funds4. Amount of national/other funds
File format1. PDF2. HTML (many pages)3. HTML (single page)4. XLS5. CSV6. XML, JSON7. RDF, linked data
Quality of information1. Date of last update2. Frequency of update3. Metadata4. Other languages5. Number of clicks from home page6. No prevention from robots.txt
Searching options1. Type of fund2. Project3. Operational Programme4. Axis/objective/action5. Beneficiary6. Tyoe of resources7. Location8. Project status
Advanced functions1. Visualisation2. Geocoding and maps3. Sub-regional data
SET OF COMPOSITE INDICATORS
Survey data available in open format on DPS website
Web-based survey carried out in 2010 and 2011 on approx. 450 Programmes at the regional and the national level
www.dps.tesoro.it/documentazione/uval/materiali_uval/IndagineBeneficiariFS.xls
LIVE DEMO:EXAMPLE OF DATA REUSE WITH EXPLORER
To be published soon
PROSPECTS
DPS Open Government strategy: increasing transparency and participation
From sets of single publications to dynamic publications
Vislets on statistical indicators (ISTAT)
Point data on investment projects
