Regional Policy financing e-government in Southern Italy
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...
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Towards EU Benchmarking 2.0 – Transparency and Open Data on Structural Funds...
The first output of a web‐based survey shows that the European Cohesion Policy is only halfway to accomplishing a paradigm shift to open data, with differences in performance both between and ‐ in some...
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US and EU in search of an Open Government R&D agenda: 44 topics in 4 clusters
Open Government is not only changing politics and policies but is also redefining the notion of established research areas such as e-government and e-democracy. The world of research – with the active...
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A strategic balance for open government data publication
A quite long debate on how to publish open government data is still dividing stakeholders and researchers. Should government develop own tools for data visualization and analysis in order to include...
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Open Data up for adoption
“Linea Amica” – the integrated contact center of Italian public administration – is opening up and crowdsourcing a set of data underlying its information services to local communities. Everyone can...
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Open Data to the next level: WHY and HOW to involve the private sector
The attention of civil society and policy makers is now turning to uncharted lands: open data from the private sector can be mashed-up with governmental data to create new apps and services. The Open...
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Open Budget and Open Data on Public Policies
Open budget and open data on public funding are two fundamental aspects of transparency and accountability. Here two indexes are compared: the Open Budget Index by the International Budget Partnership...
View ArticleA holistic view for Public e-Services diffusion and impact: Introducing...
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...
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Structural Funds 2014-2020 open up to open data
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...
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Ex-ante conditionalities for Regional Innovation Policies
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...
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The map of EU Structural Funds Transparency at regional level – October 2011
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...
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Why we need another composite index (on public e-Services)
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...
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‘OpenCoesione’ – here it comes the Wiki-Regional Policy
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...
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Open Data strategies are finally converging – EU regions and the data on...
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...
View ArticleDo EU regional digital strategies need more balance?
Here is the abstract of my paper “Are EU regional digital strategies evidence-based? An analysis of the allocation of 2007–13 Structural Funds” with Sergio Scicchitano, which was published yesterday in...
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Regional Governments and ICT policy coordination
Many regional governments in Italy have tried to solve the problem of coordinating different levels of government and different local ICT policies through the creation of ad-hoc public companies. These...
View ArticleA (long) list of the risks of Open Government
Open Knowledge has recently published its Report on the Open Knowledge Festival 2014 in Berlin. One of the most interesting workshops was called “Can Open Data Go Wrong“, “a safe and private...
View ArticleOpen Government Meets Journalism: Should A Public Administration Actively...
According to a brutal definition, Data Journalism is “Journalism with Data“. Even though this data can come from a variety of sources, Open Government Data is seen as a gold mine. A data journalist...
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A Question of Trust
This week Prof Maria Wimmer is visiting the Center for Technology in Government. Earlier today she presented an interesting theoretical trust model for e-participation. Trust is indeed a central issue...
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(Open) Government (Open Government) Ecosystem
Back in 2011, I wrote a post for this blog on the results of a workshop on the Open Government research agenda hosted by the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) at the University at Albany, State...
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