Yesterday on the site ForumPA was published an interview with me on the possibility of implementing in Italy the doctrine of 'Open Government (embeddo below an extract, while the full interview you can read it here ).

For some time now, we look with admiration (and a bit 'of envy) the reality in which this model has already been applied (not only U.S. but also UK, Finland and New Zealand); undoubted benefits that the entire national system would have in terms of transparency, effectiveness of administrative, cost reduction and boost the economy-business (just yesterday Gigi Cogo has also written a great post ).

I have tried to identify some of the barriers that separate Italy from the American model in the transition from Closed to Open Government Administration, we can distinguish two types: organizational and regulatory issues.
Organizational because the government, except for rare and honorable exceptions, have no awareness of its information, and, before all else, should engage in a real census of the existing digitization (I told my in more detail here ) . Secondly, the existing rules on transparency, privacy and scanning does not seem adequate to support this effort, as I said in deepening published ForumPA.
However, the road - as tortuous and disconnected - may be covered according to a double line of action: the virtuous individual governments can begin right now to publish its information (online and in an open format), the State and the Regions must amend the existing rules in order to facilitate their task and, more generally, require all entities of the model ' Open Government (using, for example, the decree amending the Digital Administration Code which will be issued in the next weeks).

We'll talk certainly in Rome, in the second InnovatoriPA Barcamp to be held May 18, 2010 at the Fiera di Roma under ForumPA I hope to meet many people.