Status: concluded Period: January 2011 – January 2016 Funding: about 40,000 € in the academic year 2012/2013 Funding organization: Regione Piemonte Person(s) in charge: Federico Morando (Nexa project manager)
Executive summary
The Nexa Center supports Regione Piemonte, and other public administrations, in its open government data projects. Moreover, the support that the Nexa Center offered to the Italian Ministry of Education, Research and University (MIUR) contributed to an important amendment of the ItalianCode of Digital Administration (CAD) that now includes an “open by default” clause for public sector information.
Background
The Nexa Center supports the open data related projects of Regione Piemonte since 2009, i.e., since the launch of the first Italian Open Data portal, http://dati.piemonte.it.
During the academic year 2012/2013, Nexa fellow Lorenzo Benussi worked as consultant for the Ministry of Innovation and Research, prof. Profumo, to contribute to the Italian Digital Agenda. This increased the Nexa Center interactions also with the national government.
Objectives
The Center supports cutting-edge initiatives in this domain with the twofold objective of promoting socially beneficial initiatives and gathering experience, case studies and empirical evidence to feed our research on public sector information.
The policy support activity of the Center in this domain also contributes to the overall funding strategy of Nexa, since this domain constitutes to core of the collaboration between the Center and Regione Piemonte, as well as other public administrations and private organisations.
Results
During the last period, the Nexa Center continued contributing to the Open Data strategy of the Piedmont Regione, e.g. participating in the drafting of position papers listing policy priorities in that arena. Moreover, the Nexa Center started supporting – on a pro bono basis, the Open Data initiative of the Alessandria Municipality, focusing its effort on the open disclosure of accounting data.
Previously, the Nexa Center was one of the main drafters of the by-laws (regulations and official guidelines) implementing the open data law of Regione Piemonte (Regional Law n. 24 of the December 23, 2011): D.G.R. 22-4687 of October 8, 2012. The main innovation introduced by these guidelines is arguably a formal procedure to request data (and possibly fill a complaint), which is now online at http://www.regione.piemonte.it/urp/opendata/.
Thanks to Art. 52 of the CAD, all the data published by an Italian public sector body without an express license are to be considered open data. And open data are defined by Art. 68 as data which are reusable by anybody, included for commercial purposes, accessible online in open and machine readable formats, and available for free or at marginal cost.
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title = {Qualità del dato open, ecco come aumentarla: l'utente al centro},
author = {Antonio Vetrò and Marco Torchiano },
url = {https://nexa.polito.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Qualita-del-dato-open-ecco-come-aumentarla-lutente-al-centro.pdf},
year = {2016},
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urldate = {2016-01-29},
abstract = {Lo sviluppo di una pipeline informatica per il controllo della qualità degli Open Data sulle caratteristiche di interesse più trasversale, può venire in aiuto a quelle Istituzioni –come i piccoli Comuni- che non hanno le risorse sufficienti per implementare un processo di controllo della qualità dei dati prima della loro apertura.},
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Lo sviluppo di una pipeline informatica per il controllo della qualità degli Open Data sulle caratteristiche di interesse più trasversale, può venire in aiuto a quelle Istituzioni –come i piccoli Comuni- che non hanno le risorse sufficienti per implementare un processo di controllo della qualità dei dati prima della loro apertura.
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title = { Risposta del Centro Nexa alla consultazione sulle linee guida per l'implementazione della nuova Direttiva PSI},
author = {Nexa Center for Internet & Society},
url = {https://nexa.polito.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/psi_guidelines_consultation-nexa_answer.pdf},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-11-22},
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abstract = {Risposta del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società alla consultazione promossa dalla Commissione europea al fine di raccogliere commenti ed impressioni propedeutiche alla redazione di linee guida implementative, a supporto della nuova direttiva sull'Informazione del Settore Pubblico (2013/37/EU) di recente adozione.},
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Risposta del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società alla consultazione promossa dalla Commissione europea al fine di raccogliere commenti ed impressioni propedeutiche alla redazione di linee guida implementative, a supporto della nuova direttiva sull’Informazione del Settore Pubblico (2013/37/EU) di recente adozione.
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title = {Is there such a thing as free government data?},
author = {Federico Morando and Raimondo Iemma and Simone Basso},
url = {http://policyreview.info/node/219/pdf},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-11-21},
urldate = {2013-11-21},
journal = {Internet Policy Review},
number = {4},
publisher = {Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society},
abstract = {This article provides a brief review of the public sector information pricing issues. It then discusses the terms under which the ongoing consultation on the implementation guidelines of the PSI directive addresses pricing. In particular, this article discusses the calculation criteria for marginal costs.},
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This article provides a brief review of the public sector information pricing issues. It then discusses the terms under which the ongoing consultation on the implementation guidelines of the PSI directive addresses pricing. In particular, this article discusses the calculation criteria for marginal costs.
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title = {Legal Interoperability: Making Open Government Data Compatible with Businesses and Communities},
author = {Federico Morando},
url = {http://leo.cilea.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/5461},
doi = {10.4403/jlis.it-5461},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-30},
urldate = {2013-01-01},
journal = {Italian Journal of Library and Information Science},
volume = {4},
number = {1},
pages = {441–452},
publisher = {University of Florence - Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo (SAGAS)},
abstract = {"Legal interoperability" could be defined as the possibility of legally mixing data coming from different sources (including governmental data, data generated by online communities and data held by private parties). Legal interoperability is similar to technical interoperability, since it is a prerequisite for mixing data and create new knowledge or services. But it also has its own peculiarities, for instance because it could be achieved simply choosing the appropriate licensing scheme, but also because self-help mechanisms which could - at a certain price - guarantee technical interoperability to third parties cannot (lawfully) solve legal interoperability issues. In the mid/long run, legal interoperability could be achieved thorough the evolution of legal frameworks in order to harmonize the landscape of Government Data. In the short term, the shortcomings generated by diversified legal frameworks may be alleviated through the careful choice of copyright licenses. The presentation will focus on the latter aspects, discussing existing public licenses (such as the Creative Commons and Open Data Commons ones), representing a de facto standard in this domain, and the main open data licenses developed by European governments (e.g. the Open Government Licenses in the UK, the French License Ouverte or the Italian Open Data License).},
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"Legal interoperability" could be defined as the possibility of legally mixing data coming from different sources (including governmental data, data generated by online communities and data held by private parties). Legal interoperability is similar to technical interoperability, since it is a prerequisite for mixing data and create new knowledge or services. But it also has its own peculiarities, for instance because it could be achieved simply choosing the appropriate licensing scheme, but also because self-help mechanisms which could – at a certain price – guarantee technical interoperability to third parties cannot (lawfully) solve legal interoperability issues. In the mid/long run, legal interoperability could be achieved thorough the evolution of legal frameworks in order to harmonize the landscape of Government Data. In the short term, the shortcomings generated by diversified legal frameworks may be alleviated through the careful choice of copyright licenses. The presentation will focus on the latter aspects, discussing existing public licenses (such as the Creative Commons and Open Data Commons ones), representing a de facto standard in this domain, and the main open data licenses developed by European governments (e.g. the Open Government Licenses in the UK, the French License Ouverte or the Italian Open Data License).
