OpenCoesione: Italy’s open government strategy

on cohesion policy

7th INTERNATIONAL EVALUATION, AUDIT & MONITORING CONFERENCE Knowledge Culture based on Evaluation, Audit & Monitoring Budapest,19-20 October 2017

Carlo Amati – Simona De Luca

OpenCoesione Steering Committee

Adaptation ofOpen government diagram

by Armel Le Coz and Cyril Lagereleased under Creative Commons

Attribution terms

Citizens

Journalists

Media

Policy makers

Researchers

Data users

Open data l icence to support re-use

Information about projects undertaken for implementing regional policies:

• description• funding (amount and sources)• locations• thematic areas• public/private subjects involved• deployment timing

100+ variables for each project in open data section (CSV)+ access via API

The web portal: www.opencoesione.gov.it

Projects and funds (total or subets accoding to user’s queries)

Interactive graphsfor immediate distributionof investment and number of projects by nature and policy theme

Interactive tableon investment by nature and policy theme

Direct search of public authorities in charge for programming and other recipients of projects

Direct access to locat ions through interact ive maps and search to discoverthe number of projects undertaken,the amount of overall investments in the place and the list of projects

Top projects listingin home page (most recently completed and largest financially)

Periodical insights and short focuses

Territorial indicators, open data and reuse

Highlights on the homepage

Territorial indicators to make connections between projects and the issues they should impact on.

Beyond project data

Short focuses and analyses

Survey on the transparency of lists of beneficiaries of Operational Programmes in Europe

OPEN DATA, DATA JOURNALISM AND CIVIC MONITORING ON COHESION POLICY IN ITALIAN HIGH SCHOOLS

plan tellfocus analyse explore engage

www.ascuoladiopencoesione.it

Researchthemes

(2015-2016 edition)

Schools

OpenData Day Events

2013-2014

2014-2015

2015-2016

2016-2017

7 classes

86 classes

120 classes

196 classes

200 students

2.000 students

2.500+ students

3.000+ students

10 teachers

90 teachers

150+ teachers

200+ teachers

OpenCoesione goes to School

www.monithon.it

Monithon is an

independent initiative

for citizen monitoring of

cohesion policy projects

in Italy based on

open data from

OpenCoesione

CHOOSE A PROJECT ON OPENCOESIONE

STUDY THE STORY OF THEPROJECT

EXPLORE ON THE FIELD

DRAFT A REPORT

SHARE

CALL YOUR FRIENDS

WHO PERFORMS CIVIC MONITORING? WHAT IS MONITORED?

Monithon – Key figures after 4 years of operation

www.monithon.it/blog/2017/02/16/the-light-and-the-dark-side-of-the-use-of-eu-funding-the-results-of-monithons-civic-monitoring/

177 CIVIC

MONITORING REPORTS

RESULTS

Keep in touch!

www.opencoesione.gov.itinfo@opencoesione.gov.it @opencoesione

www.ascuoladiopencoesione.itasoc@opencoesione.gov.it@ascuoladioc

www.monithon.it redazione@monithon.it@monithon

Thank you for your attention!