openpolis & openparlamento

transparency in Italian politics

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context in 2004
ofcial parliament web sites contain poorlyusable wealth of information data regarding politicians

no institutional/public directory of reliable access to some data is not even legal

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Openpolis
who are our elected administrators? what are their declarations, what they do? what are their public charges/interests?

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what to do?
our brilliant idea: data mining, re-organization, republication sourcing

verication and update through crowd-

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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
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openpolis: numbers
150K politicians, from 8K comuni 10K users 3K unique visitors and 50 active users /day 8K declarations, 1.5K user comments
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openpolis: unexpected
many of the contributing users are
interested in local issues

20% of the users are politicians (blog)

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Openparlamento

parliamentary activities data are obscure there is no single repository it is difcult, for the want-to-be-informed
citizen, to read the data and grasp the meaning

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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)

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editorial activities
tagging (subjects) re-titling blogging key-votes
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monitoring
personal monitoring section with latest
news, RSS, e-mail notications

free: up to 5 bills premium users: 10 bills and 3 subjects ad hoc: no limits

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producing new data

index of productivity for MPs relevancy of subjects during the time distances among MPs distances between you and the MPs
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index of productivity
the 2nd Open Chambers Report: presented
to the press in February 2011.

different reactions from politicians huge feedback from the media

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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)
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contacts
Guglielmo Celata - Associazione Openpolis guglielmo@openpolis.it skype: guglielmo.celata twitter: @guille, @openpolis

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