Presentation for LAPSI conference.

1. Open Data communities
What's going on in Italy?
Stefano Costa
Open Knowledge Foundation Italia
Milano, 5th May 2011

2. Communities:
● Non-institutional
● Non-governative
● Bottom-up organisations

3. Caveat
There is no Freedom of
Information Act in Italy

5. SpaghettiOpenData.org

6. SpaghettiOpenData.org
● Unstructured community
● Civil servants
● Software developers
● Civic hackers

7. Transparency
Business
Participation
et cetera

8. Transparency

10. The Guardian

11. Wired Italia

12. La Repubblica (major newspaper)

13. Raw data from abroad

17. Associazione Italiana per l'Open Government

18. http://tinyurl.com/opendataitalia

19. Geodata
(aka: we were here before anyone else)

26. OpenStreetMap.it

27. Associazione Italiana per
l'Informazione Geografica Libera
Promoting Free and Open Source
Geospatial Software and Open Geodata

29. LinkedOpenData.it

31. Participatory Sky Quality Monitoring
(under ODBL)

32. Open Bibliographic data (beta)

33. What is relevant to LAPSI?
● Nor “Public Sector Information” neither
“PSI” are part of the day-to-day vocabulary
of open data communities
● Some communities (but not all) are deeply
aware of the importance of legal aspects ‒
we need to create bridges of exchange
● There's a varying level of interaction
between Italy and EU initiatives ‒ thematic
networks play a key role

34. Do we have a
common strategy?

35. One ring to rule'em all
CKAN: the data hub

36. http://it.ckan.net/

38. Main contributions come from ...

39. Tracking re-use

40. From open to linked

41. Grazie!
Image credits:
Spaghetti: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gotosira/4699302559/
Mapping conference: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pibinko/2570491916/
Mapping Spritz: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pibinko/2531017400/
Stefano Costa
stefano.costa@okfn.org
Open Knowledge Foundation Italia
Milano, 5th May 2011