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www.opencoesione.gov.it www.dps.tesoro.it/opencoesione
MONITORING, TRANSPARENCY
AND CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT:
THE «OPENCOESIONE» INITIATIVE
Simona De Luca, Luigi Reggi, Federico Tomassi
Department for development and economic cohesion (DPS)
European Commission – DG Regio
Brussels, 11th December 2013
OUTLINE
• OpenCoesione: an Open Government initiative focused
on transparency, collaboration and partecipation
• The web platform (from 2007-13 to 2014-20)
• Live tutorial
• Some examples of reuse and citizen monitoring
is an Open Government initiative
Availability of machine-readable open data on projects
funded by public resources helps:
• fostering transparency in the use of funds
• improving decision making and policy design
• encouraging the creation of new tools and services
for citizens
• increasing involvement of stakeholders in ensuring
efficient and effective use of funds
OPEN DATA AND OPEN GOVERNMENT
MAJOR INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
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 (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)
is part of all these initiatives
EU AND ITALIAN FRAMEWORK
2007-2013 Regulations on Structural Funds (n.1083/2006
art. 69) require to Managing Authorities to communicate
information on beneficiaries of EU support and list the
minimum level of information that has to be published
Italian Digital Agenda (2012) requires transparency on the
use of public resources.
Piano d’Azione per la Coesione (2012) includes publication
of open data on financial information, ouput and results of all
the projects financed.
2014-2020 Regulations on Structural Funds (art. 115)
require to Managing Authorities to communicate
information on beneficiaries of EU support in an OPEN DATA
FORMAT (licence to reuse & metadata) and list the minimum
level of information that has to be published (Annex VI) with
more details respect to 2007-2013.
www.opencoesione.gov.it
Information about the implementation
of cohesion investment projects
(financed by EU & national
resources), from users’ point of view:
• description
• resources (assigned and spent)
• places
• themes
• public and private recipients
• timeframes
FROM NAVIGATION TO RAW DATA More information for skilled users
• Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC BY-SA) 3.0
license allows users to reproduce, distribute and communicate
data and analysis, as well as to modify and adapt or even use
data for commercial purposes.
• Metadata providing information about every variable for correct
use and re-use of them (structures of datasets, description of
variables, explanatory notes)
PROMOTING RE-USE OF PUBLISHED DATA Both formal and substantial instruments to support domino effect
• Within the Administrations committee of the 2007-2013 National
Strategic Framework, a «Technical Group» was established in
order to improve, disseminate and reuse data and information on
implemented projects
• Jointly chaired by DPS and IGRUE (with tight interaction)
• Composed by delegates of all Managing Authorities of EU and
national funds directly involved on monitoring + communication
officers of OPs
• Plenary and bilateral meetings to deal with general
and specific issues on data quality based on detailed analyses
TECHNICAL GROUP
ON MONITORING DATA QUALITY
www.dps.tesoro.it/opencoesione/gruppo_tecnico.asp
National unitary
monitoring system
Ministry
Interior
Ministry Education University
and Research
…
Veneto Regional
Admin
Calabria Regional
Admin
Marche Regional
Admin
Ministry Dev.t
NATIONAL UNITARY MONITORING SYSTEM
• Federate architecture:
a system of systems
• Based on
data exchange protocol
shared by all systems
• Reinforced link between centre and managing authorities,
based on greater awareness of monitoring importance
• Stronger motivation for managing authorities to enhance
high-quality data from local implementing bodies, as their
commitment to improve regularly quality of information
provided to the system is crucial in order to achieve better
spending
• From multiple requests of data at different public entities to
public availability in a single access point
FIRST OUTCOMES Publishing data from the national monitoring system
Monitoring System
93 variables downloadable in CSV format
32 variables downloadable from project search on OC
classifications by CUP system
Identification, classifications by NSRF, funding, timing, locations, subjects
Var1 …………………… Var32
Var1 …………………… Var93
Var1 ……………………………… VarN
AVAILABLE DATA ON IMPLEMENTED PROJECTS A selection of different sets of variables
classifications by CUP system
Identification, classifications by NSRF, funding, timing, locations, subjects
• No data on output, results or other indicators related to
single projects (only a selection of thematic statistical
indicators). The monitoring system collects some of these
information (i.e. national output common indicators linked to
CUP, a (semi)unique code to identify projects) but critical issues
have been detected, preventing us from making data public at
the moment.
• OpenCoesione does not provide data on project results in
terms of citizens’ quality of life. Current structural funds
Regulation did not require results to be announced and
measured, so that currently available monitoring system do not
collect such information.
What’s NOT NOW in OpenCoesione? Actual output and results
OPENCOESIONE FROM 2007-13 TO 2014-20 (1)
Extra info
(i.e. project summary
if published locally
as open data)
2007-13
List of beneficiaries
(Source: Local
monitoring system)
List of beneficiaries
(Source: Local
monitoring system)
List of beneficiaries
(Source: Local
monitoring system)
List of beneficiaries
(Source: Local
monitoring system)
National unitary
monitoring system
Ministry
Interior
Ministry Education University
and Research
…
Veneto Regional
Admin
Calabria Regional
Admin
Marche Regional
Admin
Ministry Dev.t
OPENCOESIONE FROM 2007-13 TO 2014-20 (2)
Widget
Widget
2014-20
List of beneficiaries
(Art. 115 Gen. Reg.)
List of beneficiaries
(Art. 115 Gen. Reg.)
National unitary
monitoring system
Ministry
Interior
Ministry Education University
and Research
…
Veneto Regional
Admin
Calabria Regional
Admin
Marche Regional
Admin
Ministry Dev.t
Extra info
(i.e. project summary
if published locally
as open data)
FROM TRANSPARENCY
TO PARTICIPATION
• Citizen engagement is essential for open government
and effective development, strengthening the quality
of policymaking and the "science" of service delivery
with improved social accountability
• It requires a committed and responsive government:
there is often little discussion about to how to design
and implement participatory processes that deliver
their expected benefits
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
USER COMMENTS
FIRST SEEDS OF CIVIC MONITORING Uploading user-generated contents
Mailing list dedicated to
civic monitoring initaitives
(public and open to
everyone!)
monithon
@googlegroups.com
INDEPENDENT PLATFORM WWW.MONITHON.IT Based on Ushahidi
Data Journalism Days are seminars for journalists, policy
analysts, researchers and students interested in using information
on investment projects funded by cohesion policy
Aimed at understanding what kind of data is available and at
promoting mashups between OpenCoesione data and other
sources in order to draft analyses, graphics, maps and tell stories
PROMOTING A KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY Actions to help the role of information intermediaries
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 neighbourhoods
Development of digital competencies (data skills, data
journalism skills)
Implementation of a project work on storytelling about
projects funded by cohesion policy
Soon online at: www.ascuoladiopencoesione.it
«AT SCHOOL OF OPENCOESIONE» An experimental project in high schools
• 1,000,000 page views
• 270,000 visits
• 220,000 unique visitors
• 2 minutes average time on the site
• 4% from outside Italy
• 1,200 downloads of complete
“projects” CSV file
In the first year of activity (July 2012 to July 2013)
ACCESS TO OPENCOESIONE WEB PORTAL
• Data from monitoring systems of EU-funded projects are updated
every 2 months by the Administrations in charge
of managing the funds, and are made available in OpenCoesione
approximately 3 months after the reference date.
• New allocations from Italy’s National Fund for Development
and Cohesion are published concurrently with Interministerial
Resolutions.
• Currently available information on OpenCoesione is updated to
August 31st 2013.
HOW OFTEN ARE DATA UPDATED ? As much as possible in real time
PROJECTS financed by cohesion policy
monitoring date: 31.8.2013
updated every 2 months
709,718 # of projects
65.2 billion Euros - Financing
24.1 billion Euros - Payments
WHAT’S NOW IN OPENCOESIONE ? EU structural funds + national resources for cohesion policy
Total projects and funds
by overall cohesion policy
or within user’s queries
Interactive graphs
for immediate distribution
of investments and number
of projects by nature and
theme
Easy overview
of distribution table
of investments by nature
and theme
Direct search of public
authorities in charge for
programming and other
bodies involved in the
deployment 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
MAIN CONTENTS: HOMEPAGE Highlights of data provided
In the footer, links to contents
translated into English:
• introduction
to OpenCoesione
• complete FAQs
The web platform is available
only in Italian, but…
CONTENTS AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
For each theme ( 13 groups
of 2007-13 EU priority themes)
a selection of territorial indicators
is available in order to combine
project data with statistical proxies
of the general results of cohesion
policies
Highlighted indicators assure
comparable information among
regions and to national averages
In 2014-2020, stronger association
between projects and output/result
indicators
MAIN CONTENTS: THEMATIC INDICATORS
MAIN CONTENTS: PROJECT SEARCH E.g.: transportation infrastructures over 100.000 € in Naples
MAIN CONTENTS: PROJECT AT A GLANCE
• Home >> Search territories on the map >> Sicily
• Context indicators >> Employment (rates), Cities (microcrim.)
• Project list >> Filters: Infrastructures + Transportation + >100K€
• Project pages (#2) >> Metro Catania (SF) with payment series, Circumetnea (CIPE) (on the same work)
• «Tell us a project» & Disqus (further info by users)
• Province >> Municipality (multilocalized projects)
• Programming Authority >> Regional Admin. (also out of Region)
• Home >> Search projects >> Biotechnologies >> Project page >> ERDF NOP REC details
• Home >> Projects >> ERDF NOP REC >> Map + List
• 3 ways to explore data: project list and pages, simplified CSV files of own selection, full CSV open data for Italy or single regions
LIVE TUTORIAL
A LONG WAY TO GO
• From EU Funds to all resources for cohesion policy in Italy
• The monitoring system collects indicators on actual targets
of individual projects that will be published in future
releases and reinforced in 2014-20 cycle
• Few data on actual beneficiaries of projects and related
services
• A challenge for a national register of public and private
bodies involved in the projects, from programming to
delivery of services
• IFEL annual report on territorial dimension of EU cohesion
policy
• Bank of Italy economic regional reports
• Interactive visualisations (www.logeeka.com/opencoesione)
• Civic monitoring (www.opendatabari.it)
First re-users for analysis come from major research centres
All re-users have required some direct interaction with
OpenCoesione project team
FIRST EXAMPLES OF REUSE
• From open access to reuse of data
• Requirement for in-depth skills, higher data literacy and
mixed competencies
• A new model for open platforms: permanent beta version
in order to adapt to users needs and increase quality of data
and service provided
• Further development is needed in order to guarantee larger
interoperability of OpenCoesione data (linked-data formats,
API, widgets, etc.): is it worth?
CHALLENGES
Improving
the quality of information
available to national community
when making decisions
Promoting
citizens’ voice and getting
civic partners involved
in the decision making process
Better spending:
- efficient and effective usage
of resources;
- destination of funds consistent
with people’s needs
Better evaluations:
broad range of analyses
and evaluations based on public
data about projects
EXPECTED RESULTS AND IMPACT Fostering transparency and involvement of stakeholders
Managing Authority
Open Data portal
Citizen monitoring
Administrative
data
Open Data
+
Visualisation tools
Evidence on projects’
results
+
Suggestions and ideas
Environmental projects: the Taranto
case
ILVA production site
EU projects
Areas near the
ILVA plant
Combating organized crime through
the re-use confiscated assets
Local transportation in Bari and Sassari
FURTHER INFORMATION TO ADD E.g.: links between different projects on the same work
http://fesr.digitcampania.it/news/interventi-79yd/metropolitana-linea-1