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CONSEGI 2011: Digital Inclusion and Open Data

After the good start I already reported, CONSEGI continued well.

CONSEGI 2011, a promising start

Affittopoli, an Italian scandal easily avoidable with open data

Among the Italian scandals of 2011 there is one called “Affittopoli”, a word translatable more or less with “rent-town scandal”. Here is a brief summary of the story.

Italian e-gov service helps to see why Public Sector Information should be open

Why is it so difficult to know how long Italians really live?

The healthy life expectancy is the average number of years that one can statistically expect to leave before falling sick because of some serious, chronical disease. Professor Ugo Bardi, teacher of Physical Chemistry at the University of Florence, recently noted an impressive decrease, starting in 2003, in the healthy life expectancy of Italians and therefore asked: how long do Italians really live? Personally, I have no specific competence to answer this question, or to validate the correctness of Bardi's starting thesis.

Why doesn't the City of Milan use Netlamps?

A couple of years ago I wrote about Municipalities that open their GIS systems to citizens, pointing out that what's great about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) made with Free Software, or at least based on open file formats and protocols, is the fact that not citizens can use such systems to do much more than reading maps: open GIS allow citizens to create and publish by themselves geographic data of public interest.