Dipartimento della Funzione Pubblica THE “COMPASS” (BUSSOLA)OF TRANSPARENCY : A MONITORING INSTRUMENT OR A NEW APPROACH TO OPEN GOVERNMENT ? DOTT.DAVIDE D’AMICO PH.D. PRESIDENZA DEL CONSIGLIO DEI MINISTRI DIPARTIMENTO DELLA FUNZIONE PUBBLICA D.DAMICO@GOVERNO.IT @DAMICOD THE ENVIRONMENT CITIZEN PARTECIPATION AND CITIZENS “FRIENDLY” CITIZEN CONTROL COLLABORATION TRANSPARENCY PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS CORRUPTION PREVENCTION THE CONTEXT 1)Institutional websites are becoming the main vehicle of transparency 2)Public administrations in Italy are more than 20,000, many of them are independent organization, with their own institutional website: • 8.100 MUNICIPALITIES • 300 CENTRAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS • 1.600 OTHER TYPOLOGIES • 10.000 SCHOOLS (which also are Public Administrations) 96 3) TRANSPARENCY COMPLIANCE - Norms are about to be published on websites (For a shake of simplicity, they are grouped in 42 subsets) THE COMPASS OF TRANSPARENCY: HOW IS MADE? The heart of the system is an engine (made by software algorithms sensors),which analyzes institutional websites, and automatically, collect data into a data warehouse . Now the system looks for links and some kind of contents and informations. In a month we are improving feature to give probability, for each section found, to be filled with contens, data and information. Web sites verification is performed by comparing found contents with defined and standardized requirements. THE COMPASS OF TRANSPARENCY : FEATURES WWW. MAGELLANOPA.IT/BUSSOLA @ Check the site @ Compare sites @ Dashboard @ Ranking @ Read the guidelines @Vote /like (New!!) LA BUSSOLA DELLA TRASPARENZA RED TO GREEN SHIFT “RANKING AND COMPARING” FEATURES TO ENHANCE COMPETITION AMONG PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS The Ranking and comparing features enable an “healty” competition among public administrations and greatly contribute to improve transparency Those administrations which are located among the first in the list will become the most controlled ones on behalf of either public administrations and citizens. EXAMPLE: RANKING FEATURE REAL TIME DASHBOARD THE SYSTEM ALLOWS EVERYONE TO PERFORM REAL-TIME STATISTICS AND ALSO TO DOWNLOAD THE DATA IN OPENDATA IT IS POSSIBLE TO SELECT AMONG SECTIONS OR AMONG MINIMUM CONTENTS PARTECIPATION AND COLLABORATION “Friendly citizen control” Citizen can: 1) 2) send a report give opinions about section contents SEND A REPORT 1) CITIZEN CAN send a report CITIZEN can express opinions about section contents (voting) A FACEBOOK GROUP WAS BORN TO ANALYZE WEB SITES LA BUSSOLA DELLA TRASPARENZA “Let’s give some numbers!” COMPLIANCE N Average (referred to 8.300 PA) of minimum contents required by the 42 NORMS 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 LAST MONTH Traffic analysis (8 november -8 december) by google “THE CHALLENCE” 1) Enhance citizens engagement by a better integration in social network ecosystems 2) Introduce a more effectiness Business Intelligence System 3) Adopt active actions and direct reporting to each public administration (compliance level verification) 4) Extend and standardize both the methodology and the system to OGP countries, for benchmark actions, and for a global and more effective “Transparency compliance” THE COMPASS OF TRANSPARENCY OF WEB SITES WWW. MAGELLANOPA.IT/BUSSOLA THANK YOU!! DOTT. DAVIDE D’AMICO PH.D. PRESIDENZA DEL CONSIGLIO DEI MINISTRI DIPARTIMENTO DELLA FUNZIONE PUBBLICA EMAIL : D.DAMICO@GOVERNO.IT TWITTER :@DAMICOD