Openpolis
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| Motto | Data and technology as common goods |
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| Type | Nonprofit organization |
| Headquarters | Via Merulana 19, Rome (Italy) |
| Fields | Open data, open government, data journalism, data analysis, political accountability |
| Website | Https://www.openpolis.it/ |
Openpolis is an independent foundation based in Italy. The mission of the Openpolis foundation is to promote free access to data and information, in order to improve the culture of open government, transparency and democratic participation, and therefore empower citizens.[1]. This mission means collecting relevant data concerning democracy and society, in order to build a freely accessible data repository capable of producing[2] and distributing databased information.
History and objectives
The Openpolis foundation was established on November 10th, 2017, and obtained its legal recognition on March 22nd, 2018 [3]. The foundation continues the activities and initiatives launched by the Openpolis association since 2006. Offices are based in Rome, Italy.
Openpolis analyzes data regarding power, politics, economy, territories and local communities. Openpolis believes in increasing public awareness on data use and open data, in order to create data-knowledgeable communities. It sees technology and data as digital commons. Openpolis monitors political power, analyzing traditional institutions and new actors [4]. The team thinks, designs, develops and manages data based ICT platforms in order to produce information, tell stories, carry out investigations and improve public awareness on specific matters.
Activities
In over 10 years of activities, before as an association and now as a foundation, Openpolis carried out a number of initiatives and activities[5]. Several fields of action allowed Openpolis' team to become experts in many areas:
-Data driven web applications. The foundation designs, develops, creates and manages platforms for the visualization of data. This means gathering, cleaning, managing and distributing data through a number of applications in order to make them comprehensible and explorable to citizens
-Watchdog campaigns and data activism. A watchdog of Italian political institutions, surveilling on the rules of our democracy[6]. An ongoing analysis of political power, in order to carry out transparency campaigns to improve the comprehension of political decisions and public institutions.
-Data journalism and investigative journalism. The use of data and data visualizations to tell stories and carry out data journalism investigations of public interest[7].
-Data literacy. Increasing public awareness and consciousness on the functioning of data in today’s world, and what the use of our data by online digital companies implies [8][9][10].
Platforms of the Openpolis network
-Openpolis magazine: Using data and visualization to tell stories and carry out investigations of public interests. A way to communicate to a wide audience projects and activities of the Openpolis foundation.
-Openparlamento: Acts, motions, bills, attendance[11], votes and detailed information[12] on the activity of deputies and senators of the Italian parliament. The best tool for Italian citizens to monitor parliamentary activities 24/7[13][14]. The website has been active since 2008, and allows a comparison between the XVI legislature (2008-2013), XVII legislature (2013-2018), XVIII legislature (2018-);
-Openbilanci: - Every single municipal budget from the past 10 years of Italy’s over 8.000 municipalities[15]. Visualizations, charts and tools to compare cities to analyze political management and evaluate financial decisions [16]
References
- ↑ "openpolis foundation".
- ↑ Network, European Data Journalism. "Openpolis / Sources / Home - edjnet". European Data Journalism Network.
- ↑ "Documentation".
- ↑ Wong, Julia Carrie (March 19, 2018). "'It might work too well': the dark art of political advertising online" – via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ "Activities".
- ↑ "Publicités politiques : les hésitations des gouvernements européens et des réseaux sociaux". March 8, 2019 – via Le Monde.
- ↑ "Openpolis (Italy)". Global Investigative Journalism Network.
- ↑ Valentino-DeVries, Jennifer (February 8, 2018). "Outlets in Eight Countries Are Using Our Tool to Monitor Political Ads on Facebook". ProPublica.
- ↑ "To our readers: Help The Globe and Mail monitor political ads on Facebook during the election campaign" – via The Globe and Mail.
- ↑ "In Italian election campaign, Facebook, Twitter replace posters, piazzas". March 1, 2018 – via www.reuters.com.
- ↑ France-Presse, Agence (August 4, 2018). "Boat loving Italian MP resigns after 'media lynching' over attendance record" – via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ "El cambio de chaqueta, una costumbre en la política italiana". www.publico.es.
- ↑ "Italy's party-hopping MPs" – via The Economist.
- ↑ "Opening Parliament". Opening Parliament.
- ↑ https://www.internationalbudget.org/wp-content/uploads/newsletter60.pdf
- ↑ "Rome croule sous les déchets au point qu'elle risque la crise sanitaire". Le Huffington Post. July 12, 2019.
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