apps4italy (a4i)the italian open data contest

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

open data in italy

backgrounditaly is more than a single nation

is a network of citiesis a complex system

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• Strong, active and passionate Open Data community (PS, developers, researchers, lawyers, journalists, professionals, etc.)

• Few municipalities or local government adopted the model (some are really active)

• The central government did not have a national strategy (no plan, no coordination, no standards)

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open data in Italy (yesterday)

open data in Italy (now)

• The national institute of statistic ISTAT released its data using Creative Commons

• A big private company (ENEL) launched its Open Data portal

• A new organization to advocate Open Data / wikitalia (www.wikitalia.it)

• Several Public Administrations launched or are going to launch their open data portals

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open data in Italy (now)

• The Minister of Innovation and Public Administration launched the Italian Open Data Strategy

1. dati.gov.it

2. apps4italy

3. apps.gov.it

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apps4italy.it (a4i)

• It started as a community-based project to show concretes examples in a country without an open data strategy

• The 18/10/11 it all changed - a4i has become one of the three components of the Italian Open Data strategy

• Great opportunity and huge challenge

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a4i/what 1• All EU citizens can participate (!!)

• Building useful, innovative projects based on italian public data (not only open data)

• Four main categories (growing):

1. Ideas

2. Apps

3. Visualization

4. Datasets

It is very similar to Open Data Challenge7

a4i/what 2• 30K€ in cash prizes from the Minister of

Innovation

• app. 15K€ in technologies prizes from private and public sponsors

• entries don’t have to be new (you can re-use your good stuff)

• IP remain to authors

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a4i/when

• It will start the 20 of November 2011

•Deadline for submissions is 10 of January 2012

•Awards ceremony: the 20 January 2012

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a4i/why

• To provoke the central administration that was not adopting an open data strategy

• To gather the national community (and to give some prizes to them)

• To support the creation of examples that can show the value of open data

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we need you (from all EU)

www.appsforitaly.it11

thankswww.appsforitaly.it

direct contacts: lorenzo.benussi@top-ix.org

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