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NEXA

10° Nexa Lunch Seminar

Mercoledi 24 Aprile 2013, ore 13.00 - 14.00

Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (primo piano)

http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-10

Transparency Decree: a FOIA or “just” Open Data?

Speakers

Federico Morando,
Cristian Quintili

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This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events

On 15th February 2013 the Italian Cabinet announced the approval of a Legislative Decree for the Review of the rules concerning the obligations of disclosure, transparency and dissemination of information by public administrations (the so-called “Transparency Decree”). The Decree states an (excessively?) ambitious principle of “total accessibility of information about the organization and the activities of public administrations”, in order to encourage distributed forms of control “on the pursuit of the institutional functions and the use of public resources”.

But, what will be the actual impact of the Decree? Is it over-ambitious and too demanding? Is it sufficient to guarantee actual transparency, fight corruption and promote efficiency? Does it include sufficient incentives and/or sanctions? Federico Morando, managing director of the Nexa Center for Internet & Society, and Christian Quintili, coordinator of the ActionAid Bologna office, will discuss these and related topics, focusing on the opening of data about public budgets and encompassing a specific perspective about freedom of information and human rights.

The Decree collates and strengthens several existing obligations concerning the proactive publication of pieces of information which are useful to monitor the activities of public administrations, increase their efficiency and fight corruption. The Decree also defines a right of “civic access”. In fact, this provision enables any citizen to require the publication of pieces of information which should already be public. This is admittedly something different from the right of access under FOIA-like laws (in the Italian case, the existing “FOIA” is law 241/1990 with its demanding requirements and limited scope).

This seminar is organized in collaboration with "Last-JD | Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D.) Degree in Law, Science and Technology "and will be held in English.

Speakers - e informazioni supplementari
[morando-quintili]

FEDERICO MORANDO is an economist, with interdisciplinary research interests focused on the intersection between law, economics and technology. His research activity at the Nexa Center mainly concerns new models of production and sharing of digital contents. From Dec. 2012, he leads the Creative Commons Italy project and he is a member of the Open Team of Regione Piemonte that launched and steers the development of the first Italian open government data portal.

CRISTIAN QUINTILI studied development cooperation and non-profit economics. He worked for 10 years for various Italian organizations dealing with international development, environmental sustainability, and Open Data. With ActionAid since 2007, he coordinates the ActionAid Bologna office since 2011. In his spare time he collaborates with data journalists for the www.eradellatrasparenza.it campaign.

Letture Consigliate

Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e il ciclo di incontri “Nexa Lunch Seminar”

Il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società del Politecnico di Torino (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) è un centro di ricerca indipendente che studia da diversi punti di vista le varie componenti di Internet, la “più grande invenzione del secolo” secondo il Premio Nobel Rita Levi Montalcini. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it.

I “Nexa Lunch Seminar” costituiscono un ciclo di incontri proposto dal Centro Nexa su Internet & Società a partire da maggio 2012 e si svolgono ogni quarto mercoledì del mese dalle ore 13 alle ore 14.

Al centro di quasi tutti gli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare e confrontarsi sugli argomenti scelti per il dibattito, insieme con i direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico di Torino e il Prof. Marco Ricolfi dell'Università di Torino, nonché lo staff e i Fellows del Centro Nexa.

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