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 [...]

Tech.Law: "The regional laws on Open Data: yet another Italian fashion?"

On Tue, March 27, 2012 in Articles , Links Open , Tech.Law , by Ernesto Belisario

Fool's Open Data. At least in words. More and more people, even in Italy, agreed on the need to give practical effect to the principle that data produced by public institutions in performing their functions belong to the community and, therefore, must be made available and reusable. "Open Date" is the expression applicant now also [...]

"Il Foglio" is called Open Data

On Wed, March 21, 2012 in Articles , Links Open , Reports , by Ernesto Belisario

In recent months, the theme of Open Data has become - gradually - increasingly important publications, conferences, and - above all - government initiatives that finally "liberate" their data. Insiders already know by heart opportunities, risks and case studies in the field, while the majority of citizens, [...]

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 [...]

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: the 17 will 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 [...]

Save the date: January 25, 2012 - "Meeting on Open Data"

On Mon, January 23, 2012 in Courses , Open Government , Open Links , Messages , by Ernesto Belisario

In 2011, the "general public" has discovered the theme of Open Data, in 2012 - hopefully - the Italian Public Administration faces the challenge of this new take on a systematic administrative practice. In order to promote this change, the Open Source Focus Group (a working group sponsored by IBM and made permanent by the main [...]

Open Date: from words to Apps (for Italy)

On Sun, December 18, 2011 in Open Government , Open Links , Messages , by Ernesto Belisario

The strategies of Open Data are developed along two lines: on the one hand, the push from the bottom (or even a legal obligation) to release the data by the Public Administrations, the involvement of other citizens, associations and businesses to harness the potential of public information. Normally, therefore, the creation of portals [...]

Course on "Open Data journalism": new challenges, new opportunities

On Fri, December 16, 2011 in Courses , Open Government , Open Links , Messages , by Ernesto Belisario

"Open Date" is the tendency of the moment thanks to the enormous work "bottom" of experts and activists, and institutions more and more people are discovering the benefits of the availability of public data in open format without restrictions for reuse. One of the areas in which the Open Data can be more useful, even in Italy [...]

Happy Birthday Web!

On Sat, 12 November 2011 in Open Government , Notifications , by Ernesto Belisario

Today is the birthday of the Web was 12 November 1990 when Tim Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the idea of ​​a global hypertext, known to all as the World Wide Web (the text of the proposal can be read by clicking here ). I do not like rhetoric, but it is undeniable that in recent years [...]