Slides about OpenCoesione web portal, about projects funded by cohesion policy in Italy

1. OpenCoesione
Transparency and civic monitoring on Cohesion Policy
Simona De Luca
Evaluation Unit – Department of Development and Economic Cohesion (DPS), Italy
Evaluation Network Meeting
Brussels, 22-23 November 2012

2. Open Data on public funds
Availability of Open Data (machine-readable) on projects funded
by public resources helps in:
• fostering transparency in the use of funds
• improving decision making and policy design
• encouraging the creation of new tools and services for
citizens
• increasing involvement of stakeholders in ensuring
efficient and effective use of funds
Is Europe ready?

3. farmsubsidy.org
Recovery.gov
eufunds.ftdata.co.uk
Inforegio
Newsroom
23 October 2012
Countries with
interactive portals
on Structural
Funds projects:
DK, F, H, NL, PL, IT
http://ec.europa.eu/reg
ional_policy/projects/
map/index_en.cfm

4. Eu rules on transparency & Open Data
2007-2013, Art. 7 Reg 1828/2006 – Three mandatory fields for online
publication: name of the project, name of the beneficiary, total value of the
project  Hundreds of Managing Authorities are free to decide how much
information is to be published and the format of the downloadable datasets
European Transparency Initiative (2008) – Suggestion of some useful
details to be published: public payments to beneficiaries at the end of the
project, final year of payment, date of last update
2014-2020, Art. 105 General Regulation Proposal - Machine-readable
Format (CSV, XML), National Centralized System, User Licence, mandatory
fields for online publication (headings & name of the projects to be provided in
at least one other official EU language):
- name of the project, name of the beneficiary, total value of the project (as in
2007-2013)
- summary of the project, start date, end date, EU eligible expenditure,
postcode of the location of the project, country, category of intervention of
the project, date of last update (newly introduced).

5. 2011 2012
OpenCoesione
published in Italy in July, 2012
Machine-readable format ?
The transparency on the beneficiaries of Structural
Funds in Europe and Italy
L. Reggi, Materiali UVAL, Issue 27, 2012

6. What’s in OpenCoesione?
Information about projects undertaken for
implementing regional policies:
• description
• funding (amount and sources)
• locations
• thematic areas
• public/private subjects involved
• deployment timing
Highlights of data provided
Access to web portal since launch (July 17th) to
October 31st :
64,000 visits, 50,000 unique visitors, 3+ minutes
average time on the site, 8% from outside Italy

7. What’s NOW in OpenCoesione?
EU structural funds + domestic resources for regional policy
ALL projects
financed by cohesion
policy
monitoring date: 30.6.2012
549,705 # of projects
52.4 billion Euros - Financing
16.9 billion Euros - Payments

8. Surfing OpenCoesione (LIVE DEMO)
Total projects and funds by
overall cohesion policy or
within user’s queries
Interactive graphs for
immediate distribution of
investments and number of
projects by topic, location area,
typology of intervention
Easy overview of
distribution of investments
by topic and typology of
intervention
Direct search of public
authorities in charge
for programming and
other subjects
involved in the
deployment of projects
Direct access to locations
through interactive maps
and search to discover the
number of projects
undertaken, the amount of
overall investments in the
place and the list of projects
Top projects listing in home
page

9. Projects at a glance
Details included in a single page (available only in Italian)

10. Civic monitoring
Citizens and organizations get involved
Uploading user-generated
contents

11. From navigation to raw data
More information for specifically skilled users
Monitoring Data are updated every 2 months by Managing Authorities and are made
available in OpenCoesione approximately 3 months after the reference date
User license Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC BY-SA)

12. Expected result & impact
Better monitoring towards better spending & better evaluations
Improving the quality of information
available to national community
when making decisions
Promoting citizens’ voice
and getting civic partners involved
in the decision making process
Better spending: efficient and effective
usage of resources and destination of
funds consistent with people’s needs
Better evaluations: broad range of
analyses and evaluations based on
public data on projects

13. Thank you for your attention
www.opencoesione.gov.it
opencoesione@dps.gov.it