Open Government: in Italy and in the Sicilian Region

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Abstract

The web, if used in connection with Open Government practices, it becomes an extraordinary controlling method not only to attack inefficiencies, corruption, and bad administration but also to promote transparency and develop participation practices.
Complete transparency and open data represent lawfulness and efficiency outposts which are absolutely necessary to public administrations because they are the new frontier of citizenship rights and participatory democracy.
This paper argues in favor of the anti-corruption provisions applications and the subsequent applicator decree (Laws no. 190/2012 and 124/2015 and legislative decrees 33/2013 and now 97/2016) for the purposes of complete administrative transparency of Sicilian Government administration and the main regional governmental bodies (agencies and firms).
The Italian Government effectively, on the analogy on European rules and significant foreign experiences - first between all the "Open Government Initiative" by US Government dated 2009 on transparency, participation and cooperation principles - issued a set of rules on publicity and transparency acts by public administrations, providing important changes to the previous regulation and recognising a citizen’s general right to the full disclosure and exploitation of administrative data, in open format.

The following article is the translation of the paper published at Issue 3 of academic journal "Communications. Media. Design" (2017). The original in English could be found in Issue 3, 2017.

Translated into Russian by Kalina Vylcheva and Julia Chernenko.