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THE COMPASS OF TRANSPARENCY

Dipartimento della Funzione Pubblica

www.m agellanopa.it/ bussola

• Eng. Davide D’Am ico Ph.D.

d.dam ico@governo.it +39/ 0 6/ 68 99-7452

• Eng. Marco Versari

m .versari@governo.it +39/ 0 6/ 68 99-7556

OUTLINE OF THIS PRESENTATION

• Background - Introduction
• Objectives
• Partnership
• Im plem entation
• In progress results
• Key success criteria
• Conclusions
• The future challenge

BACKGROUND WHY?

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THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS CONTEXT IN ITALY 1/ 2

• In the last years, the demand for transparency in the field of Public

Administration (PA) has been exponentially growing in Italy.

• Transparency has become a strategic element (more than necessary) for

improving the economic, financial and organizational management of public matters.

• Also, transparency stimulates the accountability of what has been

accomplished, and this brings a noticeable improvement to the quality of PAs, both in terms of supplied services, and in the organizational field.

THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS CONTEXT IN ITALY 2/ 2

• The institutional P.A.s websites have become the main places for transparency

criteria applications

• The italian P.A.s are more than 20.000, subdivided as follows:
• 8.200 Municipalities, Provinces, Regions
• 300 Central P.A.s
• 1.600 Other P.A.s typologies
• 10.000 Schools
• Each P.A. has both its own website and budget for its independent management
• 66 transparency obligations defined by italian law

THE PROBLEMS OF THE TRANSPARENCY

• A great number of websites and transparency obligations
• Heterogeneusly of the P.A.s expressed as:
• Size
• High number of users interested in the trasparency
• available budget
• amount of information to show
• Presence of a certain degree of complexity in finding information in different

sites

• Difficulty to verify whether or not the transparency obligation is fulfilled.

OBJECTIVES WHAT?

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GENERAL GOALS:

• Redesign the structure of the administrative web transparency service, so that

the citizen is placed at the center of the process.

• Put citizens at the same level of the P.A.s, as both can have easy access to the

Com pass w ithout any special requirem ents.

• Respect the technological and organizational independence of the P.A.s, in order

to avoid additional costs.

• Guide the citizens and the P.A.s in the web transparency field.
• Promote the friendly control and participation of citizens to increase the level of

transparency of the P.A.s, through an effective use of social m edia and new technologies.

• Develop a real-time dashboard about the state of transparency in all Italian P.A.s.

GENERAL INFORMATION THE NEW COMPASS STRATEGY

• The Compass of Transparency is

an online tool, open to everyone, directed to:

• Guide the users and the P.A.s

thruogh the Transparency field

• Monitor the fulfillment of the new

Transparency law(Decree 33/ 2013)

WHAT THE COMPASS CAN DO FOR THE USERS

• It gives the possibility to analyze and monitor the websites
• f the P.A.s
• It guides the users in the identification of the contents of

interest, directly inside the website of the P.A.s

• It allows the transparency control of the P.A.s (friendly

citizen control)

• It enables a more efficient accountability of the P.A.s
• It facilitates the collaboration among users and P.A.s in
• rder to increase the overall level of transparency

PARTNERSHIP WITH WHOM?

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THE SCENARIO: USERS AND P.A.S

TRANSPARENCY

“FRIENDLY” CONTROL PARTICIPATIO N AND COLLABORATI ON ACCOUNTABILITY AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION CORRUPTION PREVENTION

USERS ADMINISTRATI ONS

IMPLEMENTATION HOW?

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HOW THE COMPASS WORKS

The COMPASS uses an automatic engine that:

• Analyzes the institutional websites.
• Collects the results of the analysis in a data

warehouse. The engine looks for the links, pointing to the transparency sections, according to the new Decree 33/ 20 13. Data are collected and made available in different ways to users. It allows a real time check and a periodic monitoring. It permits ranking actions , comparison and benchmarking among P.A.s disseminated in Italy

IN PROGRESS RESULTS

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COMPLIANCE NUMBERS

THE GLASS IS HALF FILLED… TRANSPARENCY COMPLIANCE TIME EVOLUTION March 2013 November 2013 June 2014 Maybe….

WEB TRAFFIC ANALYSIS BY GOOGLE ANALYTICS(8 MONTHS)

WEB TRAFFIC ANALYSIS BY GOOGLE ANALYTICS(8 MONTH) WORLD ACCESS

WEB TRAFFIC ANALYSIS BY GOOGLE ANALYTICS(LAST MONTH) SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

• NOVELTY OF THE PROJECT
• REAL IMPACT ON BOTH ADMINISTRATIVE

SYSTEMS AND ACTIVE SOCIETY

• FRIENDLY AND SIMPLE INTERFACE TO USERS
• USEFULNESS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY
• STRONG POTENTIALITY FOR THE NEAR AND FA

AWAY FUTURE

• INTRINSIC AWARDNESS OF A POSITIVE EFFEC

ON THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY GROWTH KEY SUCCESS CRITERIA

CONCLUSIONS

The Compass of Transparency has been designed and developed in order to be completely and easily transferred into different administrative contexts, also in other countries. It is possible to replicate the Compass in a completely different environment, where there is a different institutional organization and where are different contents published according to its laws.

THE FUTURE CHALLENGE

As a dream, we could imagine to build an international federated system about "transparency compliance” where healthy benchmarks among different countries could constitute a sound prerequisite for an ideal global society development.

THANK YOU!! THE COMPASS OF TRANSPARENCY

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• Eng. Davide D’Am ico Ph.D.

E-m ail : d.dam ico@governo.it ; dam ico.davide@gm ail.com Twitter: @dam icod Tel:++39/ 0 6/ 68 99-7452

THE COMPASS OF TRANSPARENCY

Dipartimento della Funzione Pubblica

www.m agellanopa.it/ bussola

• Eng. Marco Versari

m .versari@governo.it +39/ 0 6/ 68 99-7556

THE FUNCTIONS OF THE COMPASS

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CHECK THE SITE

CHECK THE SITE - RESULTS

CHECK THE SITE – TARGET PAGE PREVIEW

CHECK THE SITE – MAIN FEATURES

• It is possible to perform real-time or periodic searches
• Flexibility of URLs – good as a test tool for new sites
• Different typologies of P.A.s
• Extremely intuitive result page
• Direct access to the contents inside target websites (e.g.

budgets, contracts, organization, etc.)

• No need to find the target website and manually search

inside it

• The key factor is the standardization of the sections

RANKING

RANKING – MAIN EFFECTS

• The ranking and the comparison between P.A.s cause a

positive competition between them

• They encourage the improvement of the level of

transparency

• The position in the ranking brings attention by the media
• Increased awareness of transparency and of the standards
• Ranking by typology of P.A.s
• Possible distortions, due to false positives or negatives

CITIZENS’ OPINIONS

STATISTICS ABOUT OPINIONS

FACEBOOK GROUP FOR TRANSPARENCY ANALYSIS

FACEBOOK GROUP – TRANSPARENCY EVENTS

COLOR TRANSPARENCY - GRAPHIC DASHBOARD

COLOR TRANSPARENCY– FIGURES

COLOR TRANSPARENCY - FEATURES

• Useful to get an overview of how transparency goes
• Monitoring tool useful for different purposes
• Always updated and automatically generated
• Different graphics can be automatically generated
• One can get the list of the links of a target content,

from all the P.A. websites, with a few clicks

• Results available in open data format

COMPASS NETWORK – THE LOGO

THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE SUPERVISING BODIES

• With a few click it is possible to see what is published

and what is not

• The speed of the verification enables controlling the

timing of the publishing process

• Direct access to the contents to check the quality of the

publications

• Use of the Graphic dashboard to help the governance

THE POINT OF VIEW OF CITIZENS/ ENTERPRISES

• One can find the desired information easily (or being

sure it has not been published)

• It is possible to perform social control of the P.A.s
• People can contribute by giving opinions about the

quality of the published contents

• Great saving of time in finding the same kind of

information in many sites

• E.g. public contests, public procurement

THE POINT OF VIEW OF JOURNALISTS/ RESEARCHERS

• Many journal articles are derived by analysis made

through the Compass

• The ranking feature is used to praise the best ones and to

blame the less transparent P.A.s

• The dashboard helps getting data for thematic analysis
• It’s possible to get all the found contents as open data

THE POINT OF VIEW OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS

• The Compass guides the P.A. in getting more transparent
• Easy reference to all the obligations
• Benchmark with other administrations
• Collaboration with the citizens to check the quality
• The Compass Logo is a transparency validator mark
• Direct links to contents inside the P.A. website:
• Improved usability
• Less need to assist user looking for contents

THE COMPASS OF TRANSPARENCY

www.m agellanopa.it/ bussola

• Eng. Marco Versari

m .versari@governo.it +39/ 0 6/ 68 99-7556

Thank you!