dati.piemonte.it

dati.piemonte.it

Lorenzo Benussi, TOP-IX Consotiumlorezno.benussi@top-ix.org

Digital Experience FestivalMilano, IED - 08 marzo 2011

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“Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in

Government” Transparency and Open Government

Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies (2009)

"... give us the unadulterated data, we want the data, we want unadulterated data. We have to ask for raw data now." Tim Berners-Lee, advisor data.gov.uk

data.gov

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When I say that innovation is being democratized, I mean that users of products and services—both firms and individual consumers—are increasingly able to innovate for themselves.(Democratizing Innovation, Eric Von Hippel)

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• The Public Sector holds and manages huge amounts of data. Fostering access to those repositories enable new business opportunities.

• PSI represents the raw material for value-added products and services.

PSI data mines

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COURTESY/RON WHEELER. The 8,000-foot deep Homestake Gold Mine in South Dakota is the site where scientists, including UC Berkeley researchers, plan to construct the world's deepest research center.

measurables (open) data

•Data

• Information

• Knowledge

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Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist

• strong commitment

• information management

• knowledge base

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Olivetti Programma 101 (1962-64) - “the first personal computer”

dati.piemonte.it/where

• Regione Piemonte

• TOP-IX Consortium

• NEXA Centre

• CSI Piemonte

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dati.piemonte.it/who

• guidelines

•web platform

dati.piemonte.it/what

it’s not a web site

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what: dati.piemonte.it/guidelines

• right to data and “open by default” rule

• pricing = marginal cost (zero)

• standard licences (CC0, CCby)

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• beta versioning (2.0)

• raw data

• user friendly

• open: comments, suggestions

• contests

what: dati.piemonte.it/web platform

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why: laws and norms

• Directive 2003/98/EC 17/11/2003 on the re-use of public sector information

• Decreto Legislativo 24 gennaio 2006 n. 36

• Linee guida relative al riutilizzo e all’interscambio del patrimonio informativo regionale

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why: civil society

• accountability

• transparency

• collaboration

• participation

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why: (digital)market

• wealth of information

• data = “essential facility”

• new business models

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dati.piemonte.it/results

October 2010

• published: ~ 45

• download: ~ 2300

• visitors: ~ 13.500

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February 2011

• published: ~ 140

• download: ~ 5670

• visitors: ~ 23.870

• open data & linked data

• user generated contents

• API

• cloud computing infrastructure

• open data business models

• new generation: apps.piemonte.it

dati.piemonte.it/future

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everything is changing

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thank youlorenzo.benussi@top-ix.org

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