Openparlamento London 2009
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This document summarizes two Italian civic participation projects called Openpolis and Openparlamento. Openpolis (2006) created an online database of all Italian politicians with biographical and political information. It had over 150,000 politician profiles from 8,000 municipalities with 10,000 users and 3,000 daily visitors. Openparlamento (2009) similarly organized parliamentary activities and bills to increase transparency, receiving both positive media coverage and angry politician reactions. It aimed to expand data collection and civic engagement tools to further monitor the political process.
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- 1. openparlamento partecipation and transparency projects in Italy
- 2. e-partecipation (it-2004) tiny possibilities for e-partecipation strong ties to political agenda, highly volatile lack of information on political data
- 3. step 1: the information no institutional/public directory of accessible and reliable data regarding politicians who they are what they do/say their public charges/interests
- 4. what to do? our brilliant idea: data mining, re-organization, re- publication veri鍖cation and update through crowd- sourcing
- 6. openpolis.it (2006) data on all politicians in Italy: national, regional, local level anagraphical: name, place and date of birth charges: institutional, political and other declarations: an historical repository axis: thematic and territorial
- 8. openpolis: numbers 150K politicians, from 8K comuni 10K users 3K unique visitors and 50 active users /day 8K declarations, 1.5K user comments
- 9. openpolis: unexpected many of the contributing users are interested in local issues 20% of the users are politicians (blog)
- 10. step 2: through the glass parliamentary activities data are obscure there is no single repository it is dif鍖cult, for the want-to-be-informed citizen, to read the data and grasp the meaning
- 12. openparlamento.it data mining, re-organization, re-pubblication scope: monitoring parliamentary activities users can partecipate with comments, descriptions, votes axis: bills, votes, politicians, subjects (tags)
- 14. reactions the Civic Observatory on Parliamentary Activity. the Open Chambers Report: presented to the press in July 2009. mostly angry reactions from politicians positive feedback from the media and the public
- 15. editorial activities tagging (subjects) re-titling blogging key-votes
- 16. monitoring personal monitoring section with latest news, RSS, e-mail noti鍖cations free: up to 5 bills premium users: 10 bills and 3 subjects ad hoc: no limits
- 17. future steps more data: expenses, economic interests, judicial position local instances (regions and big cities) lobbying tools for everyone social networking tools to increase citizens feedback to politicians (carefully)
- 18. contacts Guglielmo Celata - DEPP SRL guglielmo.celata@depp.it skype: guglielmo.celata google/wave: guglielmo.celata@gmail.com twitter: @guille, @openpolis, @openparlamento
Editor's Notes
- #2: DEPP: tiny company of three well mixed people eDem: approached ePartecipation field in 2004 winning a national call for innovative projects on ePartecipation
- #3: tiny possibilities: lack of partecipative culture, very traditional and strongly hierarchical, few examples e-partecipation: difficult access to Internet, poor infrastructure, old population political agenda: the partecipative process was not istitutionalized, but part of political campaigns
- #15: the report: it was the first time ever in Italy that the political class went publicly and openly under a full scrutiny