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Open Data strategies are finally converging - EU regions and the data on cohesion policy
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EU Regions and national agencies managing EU Structural Funds are forced by a common Regulation to publish at least a minimum set of information on the projects and recipients that are funded with public money. This data is crucial to fight corruptio...
Open Data strategies are finally converging? EU regions and the data on cohesion policy
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The European Regions and the national agencies managing EU Structural Funds are forced by a common Regulation to publish at least a minimum set of information on the projects and recipients that are funded with public money. This data is crucial to f...
an interactive map OF open data
on Structural funds ACROSS EUROPE
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Yesterday I presented an overview of the policies and actions of EU regions aimed at fostering transparency in the use of EU Structural Funds at the first OpenCoesione Data Journalism Day.The interactive map embedded below is a preview of the results...
‘OpenCoesione’ - here it comes the Wiki-Regional Policy
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Last week Italy witnessed a massive release of open data as the national government launched ‘OpenCoesione’, or ‘Open Cohesion’, an initiative that has gathered data on more than 450,000 development projects mainly funded by EU Regional Polic...
Why we need another composite index (on public e-Services)
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The debate on composite indicators or synthetic indices in the e-government field has been ongoing since the publication of the first benchmarking exercises at the EU level back in 2002. Many analysts and researchers consider composite indicators as...
Why we need another composite index (on public e-Services)
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The debate on composite indicators or synthetic indices in the e-government field has been ongoing since the publication of the first benchmarking exercises at the EU level back in 2002. Many analysts and researchers consider composite indicators as...
The map of EU Structural Funds Transparency at regional level - October 2011
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According to the current 2007-13 regulation, all regional and national agencies responsible for managing one of the 434 Operational Programmes funded by the 2007-13 Structural Funds must publish on the web a list of businesses or public authorities t...
Ex-ante conditionalities for Regional Innovation Policies
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As I reported last week, the European Commission has presented the proposals for the new 2014-2020 EU Regional Policy regulations, and the EU regions are currently discussing the future of the policy at the Open Days 2011. Although these drafts need...
Structural Funds 2014-2020 open up to open data
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This is very good news for the open data movement. Earlier today Commissioners Hahn and Andor presented the European Commission proposals for the new Structural Funds regulations for the period 2014-2020. The new general regulation includes an articl...
A holistic view for Public e-Services diffusion and impact: Introducing project T.A.I.P.S.
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One of my first posts on the Regional Innovation Policies blog was about “traditional” public e-services - as opposed to Government 2.0 new applications - and their still slow diffusion in many countries in Europe and in the world. My point there...
Open Budget and Open Data on Public Policies
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Transparency of public budgets and public policy are key elements to get an effective and accountable government. Access to information on the use of public money is crucial to ensure an effective participation, and to generate trust, credibility of...
Open Data to the next level: WHY and HOW to involve the private sector
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While the open data movement is spreading within public sector - with very interesting initiatives both at local and international level - the attention of civil society and policy makers has turned to an uncharted land, that is the open data from th...
Open Data up for adoption
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An interesting initiative, with an unusual marketing approach, was launched last week by FormezPA, an agency of the Italian Government: Linea Amica - the official integrated contact center of Italian Public Administration - is giving the data up for...
A strategic balance for open government data publication
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The debate on how to publish open government data is dividing public servants, open government advocates and researchers into - at least - two main groups.There’s a first group of civic hackers organizations and - not surprisingly - academic litera...
US and EU in search of an Open Government R&D agenda: my favorite research questions in 4 clusters
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Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and the US Open Government Directive of December 2009 profoundly changed the way governments of the whole world are conceiving the role of ICT in the Public Sector. Obama’s Directive, which directly (and almo...
Towards EU Benchmarking 2.0 - Transparency and Open Data on Structural Funds in Europe
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Availability of Open Data on projects and beneficiaries of the European Cohesion Policy (or Regional Policy) - which is the second-biggest EU policy after agriculture with a budget of EUR 347 billion for the period 2007-13 - can surely help foster tr...
Regional Policy financing e-government in Southern Italy
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The last issue of Italian magazine “eGov” includes an article on e-government projects co-funded by European Cohesion Policy which I wrote after the release of a number of official reports on the implementation of Regional Operative Programmes in...
European regions financing public e-services: the case of structural funds
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As reported in one of the papers underlying Barca Report on the future of European Cohesion Policy, “In the 2007-2013 planning period the share of Structural Funds of the European Union allocated to Research and Innovation received the largest incr...
Open data italy: the bottom-up approach
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Italy does not have a national open data portal yet. Some people believe that no one even plans to create it, though Mr. Renato Brunetta, Italian Minister for Innovation and Public Administration, in an interview with Wired Italy in June, promised th...
A chat with HAL VARIAN on Open Data and Gov 2.0
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Professor Hal Varian is one of my personal idols. As a student, I studied microeconomics from his famous manual which is used in almost every University in the world. Recently, I used Microeconomic Analysis again in my own Economics course at La Sapi...
