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OPEN DATA ACTION PLAN 2014-2020

Veneto Region Open Data Action Plan: a path for the future

Veneto Region Open Data Action Plan

Regione del Veneto,

Italy

OPEN REGIONE DEL VENETO- ITALY 2014-2020

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Metadata Title Veneto Region Open Data Action Plan: a path for the future

Creator Gianluigi Cogo

Date 2014-06-13

Subject Veneto Region Open Data Strategy and Action Plan

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Publisher Regione del Veneto

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Description 7 Year Open Data Strategy and Action Plan for Regione del Veneto

Contributor Marco Fioretti, Sabrina Pavan

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Executive summary ITALIANO

Questo Piano d'Azione definisce i principali obiettivi e vincoli strutturali delle attività Open Data della Regione del Veneto nell'ambito del progetto HOMER. Partendo dalla situazione attuale delle Pubbliche Amministrazioni Regionali e dalle effettive competenze e bisogni dei suoi cittadini, dipendenti pubblici e aziende private, il piano definisce azioni rivolte a due obiettivi di natura generale. Il primo consiste nell'aumentare la conoscenza degli Open Data a tutti livelli nella Regione, dalle PA di ogni dimensione alle PMI e a tutti i cittadini, a partire dagli studenti. Il secondo obiettivo è la massimizzazione, nei limiti imposti dai fondi disponibili e dalla situazione generale, dei benefici economici degli Open Data, sia come fonte di risparmio di fondi pubblici, sia come materia prima fondamentale per la produzione di beni e servizi.

ENGLISH This Action Plan defines the main goals and structural constraints of the Open Data activities of the Veneto Region in the context of the HOMER Project. Starting by the current situation of the regional Public Administrations, and by the actual skills and needs of its citizens, public servants and private businesses, the Plan defines actions oriented towards two main general objectives. The first consists of increasing knowledge of Open Data and their benefits at all levels in the Region, from its Public Administrations of all sizes to its Small and Medium Enterprises and all its citizens, starting from its students. The second general goal is the maximization, within the limits imposed by the available funds and from the general situation, of the economic benefits of Open Data, both as a source of savings for Public Administrations, and as fundamental raw material for the production of goods and services.


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Contents OPEN DATA ACTION PLAN 2014-2020 ............................................................................ 1

Veneto Region Open Data Action Plan: a path for the future .......................................... 1

Veneto Region Open Data Action Plan ........................................................................... 1

Regione del Veneto, ........................................................................................................... 1

Italy ........................................................................................................................................ 1

Metadata .............................................................................................................................. 2

Title ........................................................................................................................................... 2

Veneto Region Open Data Action Plan: a path for the future .......................................... 2

Creator ..................................................................................................................................... 2

Gianluigi Cogo ......................................................................................................................... 2

Date .......................................................................................................................................... 2

2014-06-13............................................................................................................................... 2

Subject ..................................................................................................................................... 2

Veneto Region Open Data Strategy and Action Plan ....................................................... 2

Status ....................................................................................................................................... 2

Final .......................................................................................................................................... 2

Publisher ................................................................................................................................. 2

Regione del Veneto ................................................................................................................ 2

Type .......................................................................................................................................... 2

Text ........................................................................................................................................... 2

Description ............................................................................................................................. 2

7 Year Open Data Strategy and Action Plan for Regione del Veneto ............................ 2

Contributor ............................................................................................................................. 2


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Marco Fioretti, Sabrina Pavan .............................................................................................. 2

Format ..................................................................................................................................... 2

application/pdf ......................................................................................................................... 2

Source ..................................................................................................................................... 2

Not Applicable ......................................................................................................................... 2

Rights ....................................................................................................................................... 2

Public ........................................................................................................................................ 2

Identifier .................................................................................................................................. 2

Veneto Region OD Action Plan.pdf...................................................................................... 2

Language ................................................................................................................................ 2

Eng ............................................................................................................................................ 2

Relation ................................................................................................................................... 2

Not Applicable ......................................................................................................................... 2

Coverage ................................................................................................................................. 2

Not Applicable ......................................................................................................................... 2

These are Dublin Core metadata elements. See for more details and examples http://www.dublincore.org/ ..................................................................................................... 2

Version number ..................................................................................................................... 2

Date .......................................................................................................................................... 2

Modified by ............................................................................................................................. 2

Comments .............................................................................................................................. 2

0.1 ............................................................................................................................................. 2

2014-03-11............................................................................................................................... 2

Gianluigi Cogo ......................................................................................................................... 2

First draft .................................................................................................................................. 2


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0.2 ............................................................................................................................................. 2

2014-06-26............................................................................................................................... 2

Gianluigi Cogo ......................................................................................................................... 2

Final .......................................................................................................................................... 2

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0.4 ............................................................................................................................................. 2

0.5 ............................................................................................................................................. 2

0.6 ............................................................................................................................................. 2

0.8 ............................................................................................................................................. 2

0.9 ............................................................................................................................................. 2

1.0 ............................................................................................................................................. 2

Executive summary ............................................................................................................ 3

List of Figures ...................................................................................................................... 7

List of Tables ....................................................................................................................... 7

Useful links........................................................................................................................... 7

1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 8

2. The Open Data Status for Veneto Region .................................................................. 9

2.1 Open data status in Italy ............................................................................... 9

2.2. Veneto Region’s priority economic sectors ................................................ 11

2.3 Open data status in Veneto Region ............................................................ 15

2.4 Open data obstacles & recommendations for adjustments to overcome them ......................................................................................................................... 17

2.4.2 Legal & policy obstacles and adjustments ............................................... 17

2.4.3 Governance and management obstacles and adjustments ..................... 17

3. Vision .............................................................................................................................. 19

3.1. Objectives ................................................................................................. 19


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3.2 Outcomes ................................................................................................... 19

4. Action plan ..................................................................................................................... 21

4.1. Short term action plan ............................................................................... 25

4.2. Long term action plan ................................................................................ 27

5. Monitoring Indicators ................................................................................................... 29

6. Ensuring Funding and sustainability .......................................................................... 30

7. Bibliography ............................................................................................................... 30

List of Figures Figure 1: Map of Veneto Region

List of Tables Tables with Short Term 0-2 year Action Plan

Tables with Long Term, 3-5 year Action Plan

Useful links

- http://tinyurl.com/adiveneto

- http://www.agid.gov.it/sites/default/files/linee_guida/patrimoniopubblicolg2014_v0.6.pdf/


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1. Introduction This Action Plan defines the “Open Data Strategy” of Veneto Region within the context and activities of the HOMER Project. The Plan has been written aiming to contribute with Open Data-based actions and procedures, focused on five crucial sectors (agriculture, tourism, environment, energy and culture), to these goals of the MED Programme European Territorial Cooperation 2007/2013:

• Strengthening innovation capacities;

• Environmental protection and promotion of a sustainable territorial development;

• Improvement of mobility and of territorial accessibility;

• Promotion of a polycentric and integrated development of the Mediterranean space.


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2. The Open Data Status for Veneto Region

Following the path traced by the national Digital Agenda, Italian Regions and Autonomous Provinces formally acknowledged in 2012 both Open Data as a strategic/political tool for openness and transparency of decision making and usage of public resources, and the usefulness of the data held by Public Administrations for all businesses interested in developing new products and services.

A direct consequence of such acknowledgments has been the awareness that innovation in the Public Sector cannot be limited anymore to exchange of data and services among administrations: it must be evaluated and oriented also according to the impact it has, also thanks to Open Data, on the economic development of the territories served. This has caused the inclusion, which is particularly relevant in the HOMER context, of a “shared regulatory, organizational and technological framework” in the list of actions which are preparatory to the diffusion of Open Data.

2.1 Open data status in Italy

Article 9 of Italian decree‐law no. 179/2012 defines a legislative framework that enhances access to and reuse of Public Sector Information (PSI) by introducing, among the rest, a clear definition of “open data” and a general principle of openness by default. The Agency for Digital Italy [AgID] is identified as the Italian PSI enabler. In this context, AgID publishes annually three key documents on PSI: an Agenda including the national policies and strategies, a set of Guidelines1 to support public administrations in the implementation of the strategies included in the Agenda and a Report assessing the status of development of PSI in Italy with respect to the strategies defined in the Agenda. A first version of the Guidelines and the Agenda has been published in August 2013.

Within this renewed regulatory framework, Italy is experiencing a wide participation of Public Administrations and of social communities to open data activities. The Italian Department for Public Administration is involved in a number of international initiatives related to open data and open government (e.g., the Open Government Partnership) in collaboration with other Ministries and Agencies operating in these fields. One third of Italian regions manage an infrastructure for local data. Moreover, several initiatives at regional and local level, including tenders, funding and


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competitions, are aimed at stimulating open data projects, encouraging commercial reuse, also with a special focus on storytelling and civic monitoring initiatives. For instance, such initiatives as OpenPompei, OpenRicostruzione and “A scuola di OpenCoesione” expressly target at strengthening a link between the public administration and the society by raising awareness (through access and use of open data) on how the administration manages a specific budget or a process. Mention must be made of the major contribution to the national debate on open data made by various civil society groups, such as Spaghettiopendata (a vivid community debating the status of initiatives around open data in Italy and occasionally organizing hackathons and events); the Italian Association for Open Government; Linked Open Data Italy, Stati Generali dell’innovazione, Wikitalia (which is also committed to raising funds and tutoring local administrations for civic hacking projects).

Although public administrations are independent in the production and publication of open data, AgID drives both central and local public administrations towards the adoption of a process that envisages opening high quality public data. In doing so, AgID defines the Agenda, which delineates the main direction of the Italian public sector information enhancement process. In line with the recommendations included in both the Italian and European Digital Agendas, the Agenda identifies the basic open data principles, the objectives and an implementation plan for the production and release of public open data. It thus represents the reference point for the various national measures aimed at making governmental data available in an open format, facilitating their (re)use by citizens and businesses and possibly fostering economic and social growth.

The Agenda is annually updated according to the forthcoming open data scenario (e.g., new standards, data demands, international initiatives).

Italy currently produces 8,000 datasets in an open format, published by central and local public administrations on their web portals. Compared to the 3,000 datasets available in September 2012, the increasing trend shows to what extent the Italian public administration is actively responding to open data needs. Furthermore, Italian legislation has recently introduced an “open data by default” principle: when no license is associated with the published data, the data available on public administration Web portals are implicitly considered “open” for re‐use. The application of this principle will likely increase the number of data that may be re‐used (also for commercial purposes) although it might not guarantee that the information is technically in a nonproprietary, machine‐readable format and accompanied by relevant meta‐data. Most of the Italian open data datasets are catalogued by dati.gov.it, i.e., the Italian open data portal. In addition, Italy has launched the SPCData, the linked data space of the Italian public administration. It currently includes around 16,600 interlinks to some of the Linked Open Data made


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available by a limited number of Italian public administrations, also interlinked to the Web of Data. Italy plans to extend SPCData in order to let it become the Linked Data hub of the Italian public administration, as stated in the Agenda.

2.2. Veneto Region’s priority economic sectors

With a surface area of 18.378 sq. km and 4.9 million inhabitants, Veneto is the 8th largest region of Italy and the 5th most populous. Its territory is divided into 7 Provinces (Belluno, Padova, Rovigo, Treviso, Venezia, Verona, Vicenza), 581 Municipalities and 100 Districts.

For some time now, the Veneto economy has become an international example, to the point that people talk of the "case of the Veneto" to refer to the particular model of economy growth that has developed in this region of north-eastern Italy.

Since 1982, the region's GDP (Gross Domestic Product) has kept up a trend of uninterrupted growth achieving, from 1993 to 1999, one of the most relevant levels in the whole Europe. Hereby, Veneto has recorded significantly larger and larger percentages on foreign markets.

As a consequence, it is possible to say that this economy has the features of a balanced and homogeneous growth, involving sectors, from agriculture to manufacturing, from artisan trades to commerce and services, even the most advanced.

Moreover, the Veneto region takes top marks for its tourist industry, too: with 14.5 million arrivals and 60.8 million days of attendance in 2010, it holds the national record for this sector.

It is also the Italian region that has succeeded in maintaining the highest employment levels, safeguarding jobs even in the recent difficult economic times.

Behind this success lie, above all, the qualities of its enterprising world - initiative and operational flexibility - and the capacity of the Veneto population for committing itself to its work with determination.

Such a background can hardly be created within a matter of a few years; it is rooted in the history of the Veneto region, and in its economic heritage, made of great business sense and ability, experience and an ongoing willingness to change.

This last aspect, in particular, takes concrete form in a remarkable ability for technological innovation, new products and processes and the definition of higher and higher quality standards, demonstrated by the constant growth in the number of Veneto firms operating under internationally acknowledged and certified quality assurance schemes.


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The Veneto production system combines elements of innovation and modernisation with more traditional features and values.

The fundamental factors that characterize the "Veneto model" can be summarized as follows:

• small to medium-sized enterprises;

• the coexistence of traditional products with technologically advanced activities;

• internationalization of markets and organizational flexibility.

The load-bearing structure of the Veneto economy is represented by the small and medium-sized enterprises which form a widespread and capillary web of business interests all over the territory (there are 446,000 business units) characterized by great flexibility and remarkable speed of initiative and response to the demands expressed by the world markets.

The main production sector is manufacturing, represented by over 70,000 business units.

This includes a vast number of production sectors, which stand out for their high degree of diversification and specialization. These include:

• the clothing, textile and footwear sector, almost a synonym for goods "made in Italy" the world over;

• the metal-engineering sector, which is the most important in terms of the number of companies and employees, and which has continued to expand so that over 24,000 firms are now involved. Within this sector, the electromechanical, metalworking, machine-tool manufacturing and installation, and precision machining fields are particularly important.

• The woodworking and furniture sector, which includes 13,000 enterprises and represents a sector of considerable importance even on a national scale.

Small and medium-sized Veneto enterprises have also specialized in the production of machinery and technologies for the processing of marble and granite, the textile industry, the leather tanning sector, the building industry, wood processing, and the heating and air-conditioning sector.

The original agricultural vocation of this region of Italy has succeeded in renewing and modernizing its methods, directing its efforts towards top quality production, forming close links with the industry, in order to give rise to an agro-industrial system that is responsible for about 38% of the region's GDP.


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One strong point of Veneto agriculture is represented by the winemaking sector, which excels on the national scene both in the overall quantity of its production and output per hectare, and in the quality of its end-product, which takes a share of over 20% of the nation's wine production.

In tune with its economic progress, recent years have also seen great developments in its services sector, which now ensures valid support for the vitality of the production system in the field of financial credit, information system, and commercial and business services in general.

One of the particular features of the Veneto model lies in its so-called "industrial clusters", i.e. geographically well defined areas in which enterprises specializing in the same type of product have concentrated.

This distribution in clusters is a genuine industrialization formula, which enables companies to benefit from interesting synergism in terms of rationalization, research and development, services and the availability of a network of suitable sub-suppliers.

It also has its trump card in the work force, which ensures the supply of human resources with a wealth of experience, great versatility, a profound understanding of the product and production processes, and a strong enterprising spirit.

It is a "network system", i.e. a system of voluntary relationships between enterprises, based on the exchange of information, on the reciprocal assurance of quality in their processing methods and on the purchase and sub-supply of semi-processed parts and end-products.

In the Veneto region, there are numerous production specializations that are distinguishable in geographical clusters.

The various enterprising vocation of these geographical clusters in the Veneto region include the following:

• the enterprises specializing in the processing of marble and in the production of the related technologies are concentrated in the Verona cluster;

• the confectionery sector specializing in baked cakes and pastries (Pandoro, Panettone, Easter cakes) is also concentrated in Verona;

• in the area south of Verona, in the triangle comprising Bovolone - Cerea - Isola della Scala lying on the border with the province of Padua, there are over 400 companies producing artistic furniture;

• the heating system technologies sector has grown up in the Legnago cluster;

• in the Valle del Chiampo, in the province of Vicenza, there is a concentration of tanning firms which are responsible for almost half the national output;


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• the area between Vicenza and Bassano is occupied by the industrial jewellery sector, with over 1,200 enterprises having a combined annual turnover in excess of US$ 3,200 million;

• the historic site of the textile industry is in the cluster around Schio, Thiene and Valdagno;

• between the provinces of Vicenza and Padua, in the area between Montegalda, Cervarese, Santa Croce and Selvazzano, there are about 300 firms specializing in the production of fur coats;

• along the Brenta Riviera, between Padua and Venice, there are nearly 1000 enterprises producing more than 19 million shoes a year;

• Belluno and the Cadore clusters are the home of the companies making sunglasses and spectales whose leadership is acknowledged the world over;

• firms making the famous Murano glass are concentrated on one of the islands in the Venice lagoon.

We could go on to mention the refrigerating system made in Castelfranco, or the classic furniture made in Bassano, or the office furniture made in Treviso, or the artistic ceramics made in the Vicenza area, but the list would still not be complete.

These industrial clusters, thanks to which the North-East has been able to become so successful, have two fundamental features:

• industrial added value and employment figures which are higher than the national average;

• a very strong vocation for exporting their products.


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Figure 1: Map of Veneto Region

2.3 Open data status in Veneto Region Veneto Region is, in general, one of the first Regions in Italy for the rates of adoption and usage of new technologies by citizens, thanks to initiatives ranging from programmes of computer literacy to dematerialization of payments, documents, administrative procedures and e-Procurement.

Veneto Region has adopted the Resolution 2301/2011 of the Regional Council, which instituted the Regional Open Data portal described in other sections of this Action Plan.

The Guidelines for the Regional Digital Agenda, issued in May 2013 and approved with the Resolution 554 of the Regional Council, confirmed among the priorities of the same Agenda promotion of E-Government and increase of transparency in the relationships between Public Administrations and citizens, also “through the usage of Open Data, defined as an approach to management of information and data owned by public institutions and entirely implemented through ICT technologies”.

However Veneto Region, being still slightly below average on several scores, as it has been shown by the results of the poll described in a separate section, feels the need to continue the strategic actions already started and launch new ones.


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The regional Open Data portal

As of January 2014, the regional portal “dati.veneto.it” contained 120 datasets (with seven more pending publication) from 18 different Public Administrations in several open and proprietary formats (e.g. Microsoft Access or Excel), mostly released under “CC�BY” or “IODL 2.0” licenses.

The content of this portal, which is open to contributions by any administration interested in joining this effort, is automatically linked to that of the national one, “dati.gov.it”. The majority of the already published datasets, provided for the most part by regional Agencies and organizations, the Cities of Venice, Vicenza and Roncade, the Province of Verona and the Zooprophylactic Institute of the Venezie, belong to the following categories:

• environment (soil, environmental pollution and hydrography);

• cartography and demography or land statistics;

• services and activities of library institutions;

• economic data about consortia and investment societies (Province of Verona).

The dataset downloaded more often are the geographic, environmental and meteorological ones. Statistics, economics and public transport data are the next most popular categories.

Results of the Open Data poll

The portal “dati.veneto.it” ran a poll among its visitors in the months of September and October 2013. The analysis of the answers highlighted the following results and/or critical issues:

• limited knowledge of what Open Data are by businesses and citizens, especially as far as their economic development potential is concerned. The Veneto economic community is not able yet to see the benefits of Open Data, due to insufficient knowledge and/or lack of related skills;

• reuse happens just in a few cases and often it is “invisible”, meaning that it is limited to downloading datasets for study needs, purely personal interest or other needs internal to one's organization.

• Limited production of infographics and online or offline services, especially by individuals or private businesses, for commercial purposes or civic interest.


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2.4 Open data obstacles & recommendations for adjus tments to overcome them Available regulations and financial possibilities

The importance of Open Data has been acknowledged to all levels of the Italian Public Administration. As just one example, we may quote article 9 (“Digital documents, Open Data and Digital Inclusion”) of the national Law Decree nr. 179/2012 1, the so-called “Growth 2.0 Decree”.

However, lack of detailed regulations for implementation of the same norms and/or the absence of sanctions for not applying them make it difficult to mandate specific actions or deadlines, both inside and outside Public Administrations. These implementation and organizational weaknesses come together with the difficult current state of State, Regional and other local public Budgets, which makes it so that the only “possible” source of funding, not just for this Action Plan but for innovation in general, consists of European structural funds coming from research programs (ex. Horizon 2020) or cross-border cooperation (ex. Open-DAI).

2.4.1. Technical obstacles and recommendations The HOMER project aims to develop a federation between the partners’ open data portals. There is much to be done from this point of view, mainly for two reasons. On the one hand, not all the HOMER partners already have their Open Data portal. On the other hand, the existing portals are at very different stages of development and maturity, use different platforms and, in some cases, have to comply with national technical and legal rules which vary from country to country.

2.4.2 Legal & policy obstacles and adjustments No main legal and policy obstacles are identified in Veneto Region related with the release of Open Data. A clear regional and national framework is present to guide the opening and the request of OD to the PA.

2.4.3 Governance and management obstacles and adjus tments Open Data in Veneto still is a relatively recent phaenomenon, little known and of limited interest anyway, with the exclusion of the few specialists already following it. Therefore, it is not realistic to expect, at least in the short term, the arrival of many applications, based on Open Data and developed locally, at least from those sectors of society already considered (e.g. SMEs).


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At the same time, several objective limits restrict choice to “best effort” actions, planned with full awareness that it will be possible to do only what the available funds and the overall situation will allow.


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3. Vision The Veneto Region intends to pursue through this Action Plan a greater local awareness of Open Data and of their benefits, starting with the economic ones, both in terms of savings for Public Administrations, and as generators of wealth and economic opportunities. The Region aims to involve all the components of the Veneto society, from civil servants and activists to Small and Medium Enterprises and all its citizens.

3.1. Objectives The Veneto Region, aware of the constraints it has to face, of being “every year more called to play a key role as driver of territorial innovation”, and taking into account the “Open Data vision” of the Italian Regions and Autonomous Provinces, as well as the goals of the HOMER project, aims with the actions described below to pursue the following objectives:

• OB1: increase knowledge, production and reuse of Op en Data , both “local” and by other HOMER partners, in all the Region, for activities that favour the sustainable development of the Region itself;

• OB2: adopt procedures and tools that guarantee the release of data in the most effective manner, according to all relevant national and European regulations, and their maximum usability even outside the Region itself, starting with the other HOMER partners;

• OB3: maintain close relationships with other Italia n central and local administrations, in order to guarantee the maximum possible reuse of Open Data standards and solutions.

3.2 Outcomes • OB1: increase knowledge, production and reuse of Op en Data

◦ Direct promotion of Open Data in the field

◦ Cultural Dissemination among Public Administrations, SMEs and providers of public services

• OB2: adopt procedures and tools that guarantee the release of data in the most effective manner

◦ Evolution of the Open Data regional portal

◦ Quality of the datasets published on the portal

◦ Unlock and deliver as free an amount of datasets now industry locked


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• OB3: maintain close relationships with other Italia n central and local administrations

◦ share, reuse, and co-develop when necessary, common data platforms and data usage services/initiatives


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4. Action plan Actions list:

Evolution of the Open Data regional portal

The portal “dati.veneto.it”, which is already an essential component of the regional Open Data strategy, will be improved both on the functional level and in terms of quality, according to these guidelines:

• addition of Application Programming Interfaces (API) that support dynamic interactions with third party applications;

• complete interoperability with the other Open Data Portals of the HOMER partners, and with the Italian portal “dati.gov.it”, completing the coordinated migration, which is part of an agreement on Open Data and software reuse between the Region and Formez PA, of the national and Veneto portals to a common platform (CKAN).

• addition of all the datasets that will be released as Open Data by the departments of the regional administrations, and by other regional organizations which participate into the project.

Quality of the datasets published on the portal

The already mentioned poll on the “dati.veneto.it” portal also highlighted some unsatisfaction among users about the quality (in terms of precision and/or freshness) of the available datasets.

Therefore, in order to avoid this problem in the future, all the datasets on the portal will be gradually brought to the “five stars” Open Data level, and also regularly checked to guarantee that they are as up to date as possible, recurring, whenever possible and appropriate, also to Internet-based cooperation (crowdsourcing) with citizens.

Tourism support: Open Data for regional public tran sports

The Veneto Region will promote the publication of the complete timetables of the regional public transport services in the GTFS format presented also the Open Data Week of Marseille in June 2013.

Geographic database and public addresses as Open Da ta


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In addition to complete geographic databases, even those consisting only of addresses and, for examples, their geographical coordinates (but not, of course, of the names of residents!) can have a big economic value. A 2010 study from Denmark, for example, estimated the benefits derived from the publication as Open Data of all the addresses in the country to be over 60 million Euros in the first four years. Consequently, besides the release of Open Data of more regional geodata, the Veneto Region will also promote the creation of an official, Open Data addresses database of Veneto. That database will include, for all addresses corresponding to regional public offices, healthcare structures or other Public Administrations, also their names.

Cultural Dissemination among Public Administrations , SMEs and providers of public services

It is necessary to continue and, whenever possible, strengthen the “cultural contamination” of Open Data inside the Region, especially in the following three sectors:

• City Administrations (Municipalities) and other regional Public Administrations (including schools), starting from the smaller ones, which too often still lack relevant resources and competences;

• The Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) of Veneto, which as a general rule are in the same situation;

• Private providers of public services, especially in the Energy and Transportation sectors which have direct impacts on Environment and Tourism, in order to replicate at the regional scale what has already been done, for example, by companies like Enel with its data portal http://data.enel.com/

The Region will also organize meetings, seminars and training courses, both online and in classes, on the same topics, for public employees, managers and artisans.

The first big event of this kind has taken place on April 3rd, 2014: a whole day devoted to Open Data, with participants of both the public and private sector, and a strong focus on the launch of the Hack4Med contest, which was scheduled for May 17th, 2014.

At a higher level, the Region will evaluate the feasibility of a “School of Data” at the University/Master level, in partnership with the Universities of Veneto.

More effective metrics on usage and diffusion of Op en Data


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Objective 2.4 of the Position Paper on the regional Digital Agenda is the “Diffusion of Open Data methods and of a reuse-based approach to public data”, which should be measured through the “number of services of public utility provided by third parties and built with opened public data; percentage and quality of public databases available online as Open Data.”

It seems evident, when looking at the results of the 2013 poll, that the download rates of the several datasets, the operating system used by the downloaders or the number of mobile apps and online services built with those data are not really meaningful indicators of the “success” of Open Data in the Region. More than that, it seems necessary to understand with the highest possible precision which datasets would be more interesting for their potential users. Only with a correct understanding of such needs, in fact, the Public Administration will be able to implement the best actions and policies. Therefore, the Region will perform a study to define better indicators, both qualitative and quantitative, making sure that they are coherent with all the activities and projects related to the “2014/2020” European programmes.

Poll for regional Pas and SMEs

In parallel with the definition and adoption of the metrics and indicators defined in the previous action, the Region will prepare and propose several polls updating and repeating them every year, to all the Small and Medium Enterprises and Public Administrations of Veneto.

The goal of these polls will be the definition of which Open Data would be most needed in these organizations, both to reduce the duration and costs of bureaucratic procedures and to develop innovative products and services.

Direct promotion of Open Data in the field

The residents of 160 cities of Veneto can already use 170 public Internet Points, called P3@Veneti, to access the Internet and digital public services, and to receive the corresponding support and basic training.

The Veneto Region will prepare dépliants and other informative material about Open Data, to be distributed in these access points and also in all the public libraries of Veneto, as well as instructions and guidelines to make the regional Open Data portal immediately accessible by the computers of the same structures.


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Promotion of Open Data for education, in and from s chools

It is both possible and useful, as explained in the workshop on this very theme held during the “Open Data Week” of Marseille in June 2013, to use Open Data during normal school activities and to publish as Open Data the results of the same activities. The Region will therefore promote these practices in the high schools of Veneto with informative materials, conferences and training programmes customized for teachers.

Contests for Open Hardware micro-platforms for envi ronmental monitoring

Local grassroots initiatives like www.acqualta.org (real-time monitoring of “high water” in Venice) already show how it is possible, with very limited resources, to collect and publish online environmental Open Data of great general interest. For this reason the Region will promote contests for the development of similar platforms, entirely built with Open hardware, file formats and protocols, that can directly be reused for the same measurements by the other HOMER members, in order to collect homogeneous data across the whole Mediterranean area.

Hack4Med

The Hack4Med contest, which has taken place on May 17th/18th, 2014 (http://hack4med.homerproject.eu/) is a part of the Open Data strategy of the Veneto Region and is one of the most important, and most concrete actions to create value through applications and services based on the usage of opened data.

Below is presented the short term 0- 2 year action plan and long term 3 to 5 year action plan.


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4.1. Short term action plan Below are presented Tables with the Short Term actions foreseen to achieve key outcomes.

2014 2015 2016

Identified

Objectives/Targets

/Tasks

Specific

Challenge

Monitoring

Indicators

JU

N

JU

L.

AG

O.

SE

P.

OC

T.

NO

V.

DE

C.

JA

N

FE

B

MA

R

AP

R

MA

Y

JU

N

JU

L

AG

O

SE

P

OC

T

NO

V

DE

C

JA

N

FE

B

MA

R

AP

R

MA

Y

JU

N

JU

L

AG

O

SE

P

OC

T

NO

V

DE

C

Action Plan

Presentation -

1 event in

Turin -

HOMER

Funding of action

plan with EU calls

for proposals

(HORIZON2020,

Territorial

Cooperation)

Difficulties

in ensuring

regional

budget

allocated

for

increasing

OD

initiatives

Number of

EU

proposals

submitted

OB1: increase

knowledge,

production and

reuse of Open

Data, both “local”

and by other

HOMER partners,

in all the Region,

for activities that

favour the

sustainable

development of

the Region itself

Cultural

Disseminati

on among

Public

Administrat

ions, SMEs

and

providers of

public

services

Number of

events


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OB2: adopt

procedures and

tools that

guarantee the

release of data in

the most effective

manner, according

to all relevant

national and

European

regulations, and

their maximum

usability even

outside the Region

itself, starting with

the other HOMER

partners

Unlock and

deliver as

free an

amount of

datasets

now

industry

locked

Number of

new

datasets

released

OB3: maintain

close relationships

with other Italian

central and local

administrations, in

order to guarantee

the maximum

possible reuse of

Open Data

standards and

solutions.

Interoperat

e and

collaborate

with Central

Governmen

t team that

manage

dati.gov.it

and with

local

administrati

ons and

their Open

Data portal

teams

Number of

Linked

Open Data

released

and used in

interopera

bility

mode


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4.2. Long term action plan

Identified Objectives/Targets/Tasks Specific Challenge Monitoring Indicators 2017 2018 2019 2020

Action Plan Presentation - 1 event in Turin - HOMER

Funding of action plan with EU calls for proposals (HORIZON2020,

Territorial Cooperation)

Difficulties in ensuring regional

budget allocated for increasing OD

initiatives

Number of EU proposals submitted

OB1: increase knowledge, production and reuse of Open Data, both

“local” and by other HOMER partners, in all the Region, for activities

that favour the sustainable development of the Region itself

Cultural Dissemination among Public

Administrations, SMEs and providers

of public services

Number of events


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OB2: adopt procedures and tools that guarantee the release of data in

the most effective manner, according to all relevant national and

European regulations, and their maximum usability even outside the

Region itself, starting with the other HOMER partners

Unlock and deliver as free an amount

of datasets now industry locked Number of new datasets realesed

OB3: maintain close relationships with other Italian central and local

administrations, in order to guarantee the maximum possible reuse of

Open Data standards and solutions.

Interoperate and collaborate with

Central Government team that

manage dati.gov.it and with local

administrations and their Open Data

portal teams

Number of Linked Open Data

released and used in

interoperability mode


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5. Monitoring Indicators The role of monitoring the correct implementation of the OD action plan is assigned to the already existing Veneto working group (‘Gruppo di Lavoro’) on OD. The Veneto Region will carry on the actions described in this plan, giving the highest priority to those that have the greatest impacts on other, already ongoing, HOMER activities, like the Hack4Med contest. In any case, especially in the medium and long term, the Region will work in order to guarantee compatibility and integration of all the actions of this Plan with future initiatives and projects related, for example, to Thematic Objectivesx 2 (Digital Agenda), 3 (SME competitiveness) and 11 (Administrative Transparency) of the European Cohesion Policies 2014-2020.

Specific Monitoring Indicators

General indicators (HOMER) - Number of datasets opened per year - Number of known business cases & start ups reusing open data Funding of action plan with EU calls for proposals (HORIZON2020, Territorial Cooperation) - Number of EU proposals submitted

• OB1: increase knowledge, production and reuse of Op en Data

◦ Number of events

• OB2: adopt procedures and tools that guarantee the release of data in the most effective manner

◦ Number of new datasets released

• OB3: maintain close relationships with other Italia n central and local administrations

◦ Number of Linked Open Data released and used in interoperability mode Action Plan Monitoring Tasks: � At least 1 meeting per year � At least 1 report per year � Yearly review meeting


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6. Ensuring Funding and sustainability At the moment no budget is allocated for OD initiatives, but according to Veneto Region Structural Funds Managing Authorities, there is a plan to pinpoint some actions to develop Open Data through ERDF and ESF funds.

7. Bibliography

� Contribution to the national Digital Agenda by the Italian Regions and Autonomous Provinces

� Position Paper on the Regional Digital Agenda of Veneto (pdf) � Guidelines for the Regional Digital Agenda of Veneto

(agendadigitale.regione.veneto.it)

� Linee guida nazionali per la valorizzazione del patrimonio informativo pubblico (Agid)

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