OpenCoesione: open government on Cohesion Policy in Italy
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1) The document discusses OpenCoesione, an Italian initiative for open government and transparency on Cohesion Policy funding from the EU. It aims to increase efficient use of funds, public access to information, stakeholder involvement, and analysis of policy issues. 2) The OpenCoesione web portal provides open data and details on funded projects, including descriptions, locations, funding amounts, and involved public/private entities. It allows users to search for and visualize information. 3) The initiative also promotes civic monitoring of funded projects and involvement of high schools to increase civic awareness and data skills among youth regarding Cohesion Policy impacts.
OpenCoesione: open government on Cohesion Policy in Italy
- 1. OpenCoesione: open government on Cohesion Policy in Italy Open days 2014 Cohesion Policy and Open Data: boosting transparency, performance and engagement Brussels, 8th October 2014 Carlo Amati – Simona De Luca – Luigi Reggi
- 2. ~ 1/3 EU budget approx. 100 billion euro in Italy in 2007-2013 programming period (27 billion euro EU funds) over 80 thousand entities involved all over Italy (although mostly on the South) in many different policy sectors to reduce disparities, attract business and enhance opportunities and the quality of services What is Eu and Italian Cohesion Policy about? opencoesione.gov.it
- 3. Open government and transparency on Cohesion Policy The main purposes of the Italian initiative: • more efficient and effective usage of resources and destination of funds consistent with people’s needs • improve decision making and policy design, also by increasing access to and quality of information • increasing involvement of stakeholders and civic partners • broadening the opportunities for analyses and evaluations on relevant policy issues • encouraging the creation of new tools and services revolving around the availability of open data opencoesione.gov.it
- 4. opencoesione.gov.it Information about projects undertaken for implementing regional policies: • description • funding (amount and sources) • locations • thematic areas • public/private subjects involved • deployment timing The web portal Open data licence to support re-use
- 5. Projects and funds (total or subets accoding to user’s queries) Interactive graphs for immediate distribution of investment and number of projects by nature and policy theme Interactive table on investment by nature and policy theme Direct search of public authorities in charge for programming and other recipients of projects Direct access to locations through interactive maps and search to discover the number of projects undertaken, the amount of overall investments in the place and the list of projects Top projects listing in home page (most recently completed and largest financially) Periodical insights and short focuses opencoesione.gov.it What’s in the web portal?
- 6. For each policy theme a selection of territorial indicators on the social and economic context of each region Highlighted indicators assure comparable information among regions The idea is to invite the user to make connections between projects and the issues they should impact on opencoesione.gov.it Highlights of other data provided
- 7. Inforegio September 2014 Countries with interactive portals on Structural Funds projects: DK, F, H, NL, PL, IT http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/projects/map/index_en.cfm Openness and transparency: a priority in Italy and Europe
- 8. https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/ Openness and transparency: a priority in Italy and Europe
- 9. OpenCoesione published in Italy in July, 2012 2011 2012 How is transparency on Cohesion Funds in Europe? The transparency on the beneficiaries of Structural Funds in Europe and Italy L. Reggi, Materiali UVAL, Issue 27, 2012 Data in machine readable format
- 10. Recovery.gov opencoesione.gov.it Transparency on Cohesion Funds: a web based survey Indices of openness and transparency of lists of beneficiaries of EU Structural Funds 6 different scores to each Operational Programme, one for each key aspect of data publication. The scores are based on the availability of selected key characteristics of the data, such as format, completeness of information, availability of tools to browse effectively through the data, and so on.
- 11. Recovery.gov opencoesione.gov.it EU27 2007-2013 OPs average level of compliance with the requirements set by the 2007-2013 COCOF and 2014-2020 Regulation year 2013 100% 88% 82% 44% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% COCOF Reg. 2014-2020
- 12. • 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 realisation. The evidence is uploaded into a common experimental platform. Fostering civic monitoring The Italian initiative: actions to help citizens’ voice opencoesione.gov.it
- 13. The Italian initiative: raising a new generation of civic awareness Involvement of high schools in an experimental civic monitoring that mixes civic education, digital competencies and data journalism in order to understand and communicate, with innovative methods, how cohesion policy affect our neighbourhoods. Development of digital competencies (data skills, data journalism skills) Implementation of a project work on storytelling about projects funded by cohesion policy Providing feedback on results in a public event www.ascuoladiopencoesione.it opencoesione.gov.it
- 14. OpenCoesione – Monithon scores 1. Credibility of partnerships: 24.4/30 (top initiative) 2. Evidence of results: 22.0/30 (top initiative) 3. Depth of engagement: 19.2/30 4. Sustainability: 19.9/30 The final ranking Open Government Partnership asked participating countries to nominate initiatives that expand and sustain “citizen engagement” to improve government policies and services.
- 15. Thank you for your attention! www.opencoesione.gov.it opencoesione@dps.gov.it