Digital citizenship

On Thu, April 11, 2013, in E-government , Read old and new , Open Government , by Ernesto Belisario

The road to the Public Administration Digital is paved with good intention and many, many, standards that - unfortunately - are often waived (as confirmed by the history of these days). Not all faults are of entities (and their resistance to change): citizens, despite the legislature's recognition of specific digital rights, not [...]

An Introduction to Digital Administration Code

On Tue, 9 April 2013, in E-government , Read old and new , Notifications , by Ernesto Belisario

If you read this blog, you probably already know what the Digital Administration Code (CAD): This is the D. Decree no. 82/2005, regulation of reference in the digitization of the administration. The CAD, over the years, it has undergone a number of changes that have had the effect of making more and more stringent obligations for the [...]

The right to know is the right to live

On Sat, 6 April 2013, in Read old and new , Open Government , Open Links , Reports , by Ernesto Belisario

All are interested in transparency, but few really do ... and many find excuses to postpone it. It could be summed up the state of discussions on transparency in Italy, including open data, streaming, and new decrees. That transparency is not an issue only Italic, but a global challenge as evidenced by this video (relative to the experience of [...]

Explain the Open Government with an image

On Tue, 2 April 2013, in Open Government , Open Links , by Ernesto Belisario

Those who follow this blog, you know that for some years I work on Open Government doctrine and administrative practice as revolutionary as it is complex to make it attractive to non-experts. That's why I was struck by the "Open Government Diagram" made by Armel Le Coz and Cyril Lage network DemocratieOuverte.org trying to explain [...]

Tech.Law: "Napolitano, the ten essays and the lost opportunity for crowdsourcing"

On Tue, 2 April 2013, in Articles , Open Government , by Ernesto Belisario

It is the news of the day: today the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, will meet the ten members of the working groups set up - at the end of the consultation - which will have the task of discussing the issues of institutional and socio-economic ones (the so-called "wise men "). The choice of the Head of State has raised much criticism and controversy [...]

The true citizen is a superhero

On Sun, 10 March 2013, in Blogging , Open Government , by Ernesto Belisario

A few days ago, in the pages of many online newspapers (including Italian) was reported in a unique video that showed a man dressed as Batman who presented himself at a police station in Bradford (UK) to deliver a criminal, accused of theft burglary and fraud. The news was relegated to the "custom" and [...]

The agony of our democracy

On Sat, 23 February 2013, in Blogging , Open Government , by Ernesto Belisario

In this Saturday in "silence", the film runs in front of me of this terrible campaign that, in the opinion of all, marked a particularly low point in our democratic life. Last night, instinctively, I tweeted a bitter reflection on the critical condition of representative democracy (not only in Italy). At the end of this campaign, we can say: [...]

Transparency is a method

On Sat, 16 February 2013, in Blogging , E-government , Read old and new , Open Government , by Ernesto Belisario

Those who follow me on social and around the net, he knows that in the last three weeks have been very busy on the side of transparency (and, therefore, the Open Data) with friends of Digital Agora. Just as we were engaged in Week Transparency to check the level of openness of the Italian PA on the data [...]

Save the date 20/21 February 2013 - XI National Conference of Statistics

On Wed, 6 February 2013, in Courses , Open Links , Reports , by Ernesto Belisario

It is with great pleasure an event to which organization - as part of the Scientific Committee - I have worked with over the last few months: the eleventh Conference of National Statistics. The National Conference of Statistics is the container in which the National Statistical System and compares dialogues, resulting in a synthesis of knowledge in [...]

OpenElezioni: a proposal

On Sun, 6 January 2013, in Read old and new , Open Government , by Ernesto Belisario

The election campaign has already started and in full swing: on 24 and 25 February Italians will be called to elect their representatives in both houses of Parliament. A few years ago, I had the opportunity to write (on this blog) as forms with which we express our vote are outdated and inadequate. [...]