Civic hackers, are you there?

On Fri, 24 September 2010, Open Government , Notifications , by Ernesto Belisario

In a few days, on October 1, INCA competition will be launched in 2010, sponsored by several European public authorities (of course no Italian). Participants will need to develop applications (Web, Facebook, iPhone) aimed at improving the quality of life, modeled on AppsForDemocracy. The deadline for the development of the prototype is six weeks and [...]

In Benevento is called "Law 2.0"

On Tue, 21 September 2010, Reports , Justice electronically , by Ernesto Belisario

Autumn, you know, the season for conferences and seminars in the coming weeks will be as many appointments over Italy (and elsewhere) in which talk about the issues dear to readers of this blog. On 22 September to attend an interesting conference on "The Electronic Process: new scenarios" organized by Giuffre Education and the Order of [...]

The "Code Azuni" can become a model for the rest of the world?

On Tue, September 21, 2010, in E-government , read old and new , Notifications , by Ernesto Belisario

So far, I had not written anything about the "Code Azuni" project launched earlier in the month of August by the Ministry for Public Administration and Innovation, which has been much discussed on the Internet, both in relation to the substantive the method followed. In the aftermath of the Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius (in which the Italian government has [...]

Democracy "collaborative"

On Mon, September 20, 2010 in Open Government , Open Links , by Ernesto Belisario

Who follows this blog knows that I am very busy to say even in Italy the administrative practice of Open Government and, increasingly, I am confronted with politicians, administrators and scholars on this issue. To all I say that the technologies are important, but the heart of an administration really open is represented by a different relationship [...]

All goes well, Madame la Marchesa ...

On Thu, September 16, 2010, in E-government , read old and new , Notifications , by Ernesto Belisario

On Sunday the Prime Minister, Mr. Silvio Berlusconi, speaking at Atreju10, has released some important statements on public sector innovation. In particular, in addition to announcing that it will soon be resumed "Banda Larga project," Mr Berlusconi said the Italian Digital Administration is leading and that by 2012 all [...]

Sixth National Conference in Computer Science and Urban and Spatial Planning - INPUT 2010

On Fri, September 10, 2010 in Open Government , Notifications , by Ernesto Belisario

Hoping to please the readers of this blog, I point out that the engineering laboratory of urban and territorial systems of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Basilicata is organizing the "Sixth National Conference in Computer Science and Urban and Spatial Planning - INPUT 2010 "Power to be held in 13 to 15 [...]

We free the data ... actually no, we will resume

On Mon, 6 September 2010, in E-Government , Open Government , by Ernesto Belisario

In this hour are doing a lot to discuss the statements of Professor. Enzo Boschi, president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. INGV is a research institution (established by Legislative Decree n. 381/1999) that, for some time, publish on its website the earthquake data, it is a rare (and clever) example of [ ...]