The document summarizes an event on open data and the open data portal dati.piemonte.it. It discusses how open data can promote transparency, innovation and new business opportunities. It provides an overview of dati.piemonte.it, including its guidelines to make data open by default, efforts to make data easy to access and use, and growth in the number of datasets published and downloaded since its launch. The presentation concludes by discussing plans to further develop the portal and how open data practices are changing.

1. Digital Experience Festival
Milano, IED - 08 marzo 2011
dati.piemonte.it
Lorenzo Benussi, TOP-IX Consotium
lorezno.benussi@top-ix.org
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2. data.gov
“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
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3. 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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4. PSI data mines
• 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.
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.
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5. measurables (open) data
• Data
• Information
• Knowledge
Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist
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6. dati.piemonte.it/where
• strong
commitment
• information
management
• knowledge base Olivetti Programma 101 (1962-64) -
“the first personal computer”
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7. dati.piemonte.it/who
• Regione Piemonte
• TOP-IX Consortium
• NEXA Centre
• CSI Piemonte
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8. dati.piemonte.it/what
it’s not a
web site
• guidelines
• web platform
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9. 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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10. what:
dati.piemonte.it/web platform
• beta versioning (2.0)
• raw data
• user friendly
• open: comments, suggestions
• contests
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11. 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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12. why: civil society
• accountability
• transparency
• collaboration
• participation
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13. why: (digital)market
• wealth of information
• data = “essential facility”
• new business models
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14. dati.piemonte.it/results
October 2010 February 2011
• published: ~ 45 • published: ~ 140
• download: ~ 2300 • download: ~ 5670
• visitors: ~ 13.500 • visitors: ~ 23.870
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15. dati.piemonte.it/future
• open data & linked data
• user generated contents
• API
• cloud computing infrastructure
• open data business models
• new generation: apps.piemonte.it
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16. everything is changing
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17. thank you
lorenzo.benussi@top-ix.org
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