Over the last few months I worked a lot of "Open Government", namely that the new model of Directors (strongly backed by President Obama and that is spreading rapidly in many other countries) under which, according to the definition given by 'friend Gigi Cogo , the agencies "must be open and available to facilitate effective action and to ensure public control on 'fancy'.

In particular, I have tried to address the legal issues related to the adoption of the Open model in our country ( here is an interview I published the " Italian way Open Date "and the theme will also speak to ForumPA the interesting conference " Innovation without permission. Prospects and challenges of government 2.0 ") is not a mystery, in fact, that Italy is one of the few countries in which Western philosophy has not yet made ​​inroads Open profiles and regulatory (copyright, privacy and transparency) may become a serious obstacle to the practical implementation of these new policies.
This is a close cultural, organizational and even before legislation; it is no coincidence, for example, that the "Open Government" Wikipedia is not translated into Italian and that there is no site in which you discuss this with our national systematic nature of these issues.

For this reason, I decided to start a new section of this blog, called "Open Links", to gather and report news, ideas and comments on the subject, so as to help start a discussion.

1. It seems fitting to start with the reporting of government sites that have already taken concrete actions, so that everyone can understand that it is not mere theory or unattainable utopia. We start with the examples of the USA ( www.data.gov ), the United Kingdom ( www.data.co.uk ) and New Zealand ( www.data.govt.nz ).

2. The Privacy Imperative by Jeff Jonas , interesting post on the implications on privacy.

3. Case study: how open data saved $ 3.2 billion Canada , a very interesting analysis of Canadian experience, which explains why the Open really works.

4. The Three Laws of Open Data , a stimulating article published on the blog of the Taskforce for the Australian Government 2.0 .

If you have recommendations for future issues of Open Links, do not hesitate to inviarmele.
Happy reading and the next