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

~ 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?

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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

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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

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

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What’s in the web portal?

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

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Highlights of other data provided

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

https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/

Openness and transparency: a priority in Italy and Europe

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

Recovery.gov

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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.

Recovery.gov

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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

• 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

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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

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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.

Thank you for your attention!

www.opencoesione.gov.it

opencoesione@dps.gov.it