In recent years, institutional Web sites have become increasingly important, becoming - in fact - the main front office of all Directors, and the legislature itself has occupied several times to define the characteristics and content of the public website, however, most organizations do not meet these requirements and can not use this form to make it an effective instrument of transparency and provision of online services to citizens and businesses.

For this reason, very important news that on July 26 last year were published on the website of the Ministry for Public Administration and Innovation, the " Guidelines for the Web sites of the PA . " The document provided for in Article 4 of the Directive n. 8/2009 of the Minister Brunetta and drafted by a working group (composed of experts from the Department of Civil Service, Department of Digitisation and Technological Innovation, and the DigitPA Formez PA), aims to make recommendations to the Public Administration and Policy razionalizzre tools to online content, reducing public websites obsolete and improve those assets.

The Guidelines, before being published, have been the subject of a public consultation (to be honest, just owned) for a period of two months, led through a discussion forum dedicated to the website of the Ministry.

For a careful reading, not escape that the document lacks an innovative content, having the function of government to provide a guide to the legal requirements in force for some time, however, the guidelines represent a useful tool for both entities (the path technical regulatory adjustment in order to avoid liability and litigation ) for nationals (in the creation of awareness of their digital rights.)

I tried to reconstruct the rules relating to the web sites of the PA in an article published by the magazine E-Gov Maggioli (which has other interesting contributions on the subject: one on the role of institutional sites and the other on the new person in charge of the publication) ; here I want to emphasize that the initiative of the Ministry represents an opportunity to rethink, finally, the whole architecture of public sites, ignoring improvisation and easy outsourced contracts, second comfortable clichés, with sites containing unnecessary and always the same.