Welcome to the second round with the heading "Open Links", created to report news, ideas and comments on Open Data and Open Government.

Over the last few days, the theme of "freedom of information" has become of great relevance, starting to leave the narrow circle of insiders, and the PA Forum 2010 , was surely one of the most popular topics: are more and more government and organizations wishing to undertake policies inspired by the philosophy of 'Open Data.

A. I feel duty-bound to begin by ' special section devoted to the Open Data from Nova 24, May 13 , which is fully available on line at this address: http://novareview.ilsole24ore.com/pubblica-amministrazione , it was a important starting point for future discussions. Advice to those interested in the subject, to include in your bookmarks (or feeds) the sites of other friends who, besides myself , have contributed to the special: Gigi Cogo , Nicola Mattina , Matthew Brunati and Titti Cimmino .

2. The need to launch series of Open Governmen t policies in our country is even more striking in light of the data contained in the 2010 Report of the United Nations on the status of e-government in the world (whose full text is available here ). Again, data for Italy are not exciting (38 th place, at a distance from the sidereal countries that occupy the top positions); particularly interesting section on the 'Open Data model that illustrates the economic benefits that may gain from the release of their data in times of crisis.

3. Point out the interesting article Goodbye Gordon Brown: ... but thanks for the date and the campaign goes on , published on the blog of Free Your Data (an initiative of the popular " Guardian ") in which it is recognized that the change of majority in the United Kingdom does not mean that (as often happens in Italy) the project will be dropped from the old government, on the contrary, the new government intends to strengthen initiatives already in place and to release more data.

4. Data.gov: Pretty Advanced for a One-Year-Old , post Vivek Kundra Blog of the 'Open Initiative in which it reports on the status of the project a year into it and begins to speak of a " Phase 2 ", launching a genuine consultation on twitter .

Finally, I point out this video of Tim Berners Lee , recorded at the last TEDUniversity 2010 (and subtitled in Italian), in which one year from the now famous " raw data now , "shows a little 'interesting results that can arise once the data is published and related to each other.

This and the 'Italian Open Gov "me and my friend Gigi Cogo will speak Monday, May 24 at 16.30, during the broadcast on Radio24 Novalab guests Luke Tremolada.

Good listening and the next