See you at the International Festival of Journalism?

On Wed, April 25, 2012 in Courses , E-Government , Open Government , Open Links , Messages , by Ernesto Belisario

Also this year, I have the pleasure to participate in the International Journalism Festival in Perugia which takes 25 to 29 April 2012. Vast, as always, the program of events (which can be viewed by clicking here) where we'll cover some issues dear to readers of this blog (in particular: public communication, open data and [...]

PA 2.0: online is the Handbook of the Ministry

On Wed, April 25, 2012, in E-Government , Open Government , Social Networks , by Ernesto Belisario

Something for social media, even the government. Authorities are increasingly present on Facebook, Youtube and Twitter, but not always the government can seize the enormous opportunities that these new tools offer. In other cases, however, issues of technical, organizational and legal administrators and officials discourage the use of social [...]

OGP 2012: why I came to Brazil

On Tue, April 17, 2012 in Articles , Open Government , Open Links , by Ernesto Belisario

Even if the other end of the World, the phone keeps ringing. Not all my customers and friends know of my trip in Brazil and some people ask me "What's so important to Brazil?". Richard Luna has asked me to write a piece that CheFuturo here: I hope not http://www.chefuturo.it/2012/04/la-democrazia-rinasce-oggi-in-brasile-litalia-invece-dorme/ seems [...]

The Shipping News: Open Government Partnership Meeting 2012

On Mon, 16 April 2012 in Open Government , Open Links , Messages , by Ernesto Belisario

Over the next two days, I will be in Brasilia to follow the proceedings of the first annual meeting of the Open Government Partnership, the project started in 2011 to affirm intergovernmental international principles of Open Government. It is therefore likely that, this week, the sites for my writing and my social are "monopolized" by this important [...]

Tech.Law: "Ten things I want to know Digital Agenda"

On Tue, April 10, 2012, in E-Government , Open Government , Reports , Tech.Law , by Ernesto Belisario

Months are important for innovation in our country: the Government, through a "control room" is writing the diary Italian Digital (ADI). With almost two years late, even Italy has decided to develop its own strategy for implementation of the Digital European Union that, as stated by the Government, has a long-term (until 2020). For [...]

Open Government: Lombardy writes the first regional plan

On Wed, April 4, 2012 in Open Government , Open Links , Messages , by Ernesto Belisario

Italy, in recent months, is getting to grips with the Open Date: multiply the portals of institutions, a proliferation of proposals for regional law, is taking care of the control room of the Digital Government Agenda. Often, however, lose sight of the fact that the availability of online public sector information [...]

Map of regional laws on Open Data

On Fri, March 9, 2012, in Laws old and new , Open Government , Open Links , Messages , by Ernesto Belisario

Open Data is the theme of the moment: after the launch of the national portal www.dati.gov.it, are multiplying initiatives of the Italian government and the datasets are already over 1600 released. How to know who reads this blog (or I have heard in conferences and webinars), have long been convinced that - even to accelerate the first [...]

IODL 2.0: the new Italian license for the Open Data is more simple and open

On Thu, March 8, 2012 in Open Government , Open Links , Messages , by Ernesto Belisario

There's good news for the Italian Open Data movement, a news item which I hold dear: FormezPA has published a new version of the Italian Open Data Licence, the IODL 2.0. The new license, which joins the IODL 1.0 (published in April 2011), is available online at this new address and has the goal of becoming [...]

Open Date: legal aspects

On Sat, February 11, 2012 in Courses , Open Government , Open Links , by Ernesto Belisario

Last Thursday, he and his friend Stefano Epifani, I attended the webinar organized by Dati.gov.it profiles on technical and legal issues of Open Data. For those interested, I note that here you can see the event registration and that by following the hashtag # webinardatigov you can read all the tweets of participants. For completeness, below embeddo slides used [...]

Digital Agenda and Open Date: start with the right foot?

On Thu, February 9, 2012, in Laws old and new , Open Government , Notifications , by Ernesto Belisario

As reported by some media, today is an important day for the Italian innovation: 17 to be held the first meeting of the "control room" provided by the Digital Agenda Simplifications Decree approved by the government on Jan. 27. The decree, in its final version, expected 1. According to the indications of the Digital [...]