OpenCoesione Pierdavid Pizzochero Spokesperson of Italy’s Minister for Territorial Cohesion The trend towards centralising information about EU Funds and their beneficiaries: Italy’s Open Data Portal opencoesione.gov.it

What’s in OpenCoesione? Information about investment projects financed by cohesion policies: title, funding (amount and sources), payments, places and expenditure categories, as well as players involved and forecasted/actual timing, gradually updated every two months. Data highlights

opencoesione.gov.it What’s in OpenCoesione? ALL undertaken and monitored projects financed by EU Structural Funds in programming cycle (at ) EU Structural Funds 16.9 bln/EUR (plus national co-financing)

OpenCoesione How does it work? opencoesione.gov.it

Easy overview of distribution of investments through categories.

opencoesione.gov.it Interactive graphs for immediate distribution of investments and number of projects by category of expenditure, geographical area, type of intervention.

opencoesione.gov.it Direct search of projects’ programming authorities and recipients.

opencoesione.gov.it Direct access to Regions / Provinces / Municipalities through interactive maps and search to discover the number of projects, the amount of overall investments and other details of projects carried out in a given place.

opencoesione.gov.it Major projects (in terms of financing) listing in home page.

opencoesione.gov.it Projects at a glance Details in a single page

opencoesione.gov.it Civic monitoring Single/Grouped citizens’ involvement

opencoesione.gov.it Information enrichment Users allowed to upload rich media

«The new website represents a radical pace change in communicating with citizens in a transparent and fair manner. It is an indispensable instrument to enhance participation in public choices and public investment qualities» Fabrizio Barca Minister for Territorial Cohesion opencoesione.gov.it

Domestic Media Feedback Press coverage samples

opencoesione.gov.it International Media Feedback Open data magazines

opencoesione.gov.it Social Media Feedback Word-of-mouth through social networks

OpenCoesione From open access to Open Data opencoesione.gov.it

 40,000 views  30,000 single viewers since launch date ( ), 5% from abroad opencoesione.gov.it Access to information

opencoesione.gov.it From Surfing to Raw Data Deeper information for specifically skilled users

opencoesione.gov.it An end-user licence is granted to support re-use of published data. The CC BY-SA 3.0 licence allows users to reproduce, distribute and communicate to the public data and analyses, as well as to modify and adapt, or even use, data for commercial purposes. Re-usable Data End-User Licence Agreement: CC BY-SA

OpenCoesione Conclusions opencoesione.gov.it

Improve the quality of information available to national community when making decisions Promote citizens’ voice and get civic partners involved in the decision-making process Expected impact Towards better spending Improve quality of spending: efficient usage of resources, resources destination consistent with people’s needs

 «Better spending» requires citizens’ intense interaction with institutions. The role of the public sphere is very important. «A European public sphere can emerge only if the importance of European decisions is perceived within national arenas», J. Habermas  OpenCoesione Portal aims to make EU requirements for public participation «non- rhetorical» and to build up the programming so as to succesfully meet citizens’ needs. opencoesione.gov.it

Thanks for your attention! Pierdavid Pizzochero Spokesperson of Italy’s Minister for Territorial Cohesion opencoesione.gov.it