The readers of this blog it will be noticed in the last few weeks I'm taking a lot of issues associated with the 'Open Government. My interest in the legal and organizational aspects is not only to the scholar who wants to examine a model and analyze its strengths and weaknesses, but to those who want to try to understand what are the obstacles that are preventing acts of ' our national e-government does not talk yet so convinced of the Open Date and systematic.

Recently I was confronted with many administrations: some do not immediately understand the importance of political and revolutionary type Open, other (as often happens in Italy) takes time: time to study, time to develop plans and strategies . Everything becomes fiendishly complicated.

That 's why I always look a bit' of envy in those countries in which innovations are made quickly and easily, almost naturally.

Two recent examples.
The first: last Friday the new British Prime Minister, David Cameron, with a post on its corporate website has opened an own podcast in which he announced a plan for transparency, saying things so obvious as to seem revolutionary:

"If there's one thing I noticed when I do this work, is that all the information on the government spends money on, how to spend it, its results are known only by ministers and government officials.
I think this is ridiculous. It 's your money, your government, you should know what is happening. For this we are going to pierce that veil of secrecy that surrounds this information and give the greatest possible transparency. By making this information public, you will be able to ask the Government to account for its decisions. "

The podcast of David Cameron is illuminating not only for content (which will lead to an 'even greater emphasis on the themes of' Open Data), but also for the form: a simple audio file without any editing, recorded on the train that brought the First Minister in London after a trip to Yorkshire. The innovations do you even so, no mega-pharaonic projects, with a minor. Mp3 file.

The second case that struck me is the site that was set up following the ecological disaster that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in time you are talking about in the last hour . The site, located at www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com , not only contains updated information on emergency, but has a special section dedicated to tips that can come from anyone who believes that you have a solution to solve this grave problem. That's right, everyone (through this simple form ) may indicate a possible remedy that will be examined by competent authorities and British Petroleum; proposals to date have reached approximately 8,000.
It is, in my opinion, a very important demonstration of the benefits that you can have if citizens are considered as a resource and not as subjects.

Even in Italy, new technologies could be used to quickly, easily and quickly, to ensure transparency and engage citizens in decision-making. How? We talk, for example, the so-called "economic package" that was approved by the Government in recent days.
Everyone talks about it, newspapers and television news devoted to this news, the opening titles, but if you go on the website of the Government can not find more than a meager press release or press conference of Prime Minister Berlusconi and Mr Tremonti. To find the text of the measure must go on the sites of some newspapers (Corriere della Sera published here , in. pdf). Well, the question arises: why not make available the measure (including provisional text) directly on corporate websites? I believe that transparency in the genesis of a measure so important to the state and citizens is absolutely in order.
And then, why not organize a public consultation on measures to be taken out of the crisis? I'm sure that would come many reports interesting and worthy of being accepted.

Trasperenti and be open to participation, with new technologies, it's easy.

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