The Italian Open Data Contest 2011 presented @ open gov data camp

1. apps4italy (a4i)
the italian open data contest
Lorenzo Benussi, TOP-IX Consortium
lorenzo.benussi@top-ix.org
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2. open data
in italy
background
italy is more than a single nation
is a network of cities
is a complex system
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3. open data in Italy (yesterday)
• 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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 Challenge
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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. we need you (from all EU)
www.appsforitaly.it
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12. thanks
www.appsforitaly.it
direct contacts: lorenzo.benussi@top-ix.org
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