Italy is drafting its 4th national Action Plan for Open Government as a result of its participation in the OGP.
After the preliminary meetings with the administrations and CSOs involved in the Open Government Forum, back in June and July 2018, we were able to collect the first proposals for commitments to be included in the Plan.
The Minister for Public Administration, Giulia Bongiorno, convened the Institutional Working Group on 19 November 2018, gathering representatives from central administrations, the main public agencies, Regional and Municipal authorities. The Working Group started discussing the possible commitments for the new Action Plan taking into account the proposals coming from civil society. The second meeting of the Working Group was held on 8 January 2019.
List of Administrations involved in the 4th national Action Plan for Open Government 2019-2021
- AGCOM – Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni
- Agenzia dei beni confiscati
- Agenzia del Demanio
- Agenzia delle Dogane
- Agenzia delle Entrate
- AgiD – Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale
- ANAC – Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione
- ANCI – Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani
- Camera dei Deputati
- Comune di Milano
- Comune di Roma
- Conferenza delle Regioni e delle Province autonome
- CONSIP – Centrale acquisti della PA
- Corte dei Conti
- Dipartimento Casa Italia – Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
- Dipartimento della funzione pubblica – Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
- Dipartimento della gioventù e del servizio civile nazionale – Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
- Dipartimento per gli affari regionali e le autonomie – Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
- Dipartimento per la programmazione e il coordinamento della politica economica – Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
- Dipartimento per le pari opportunità – Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
- Dipartimento per le politiche della famiglia – Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
- Dipartimento per le politiche di coesione – Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
- Dipartimento per le politiche europee – Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
- Dipartimento per le riforme istituzionali – Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
- Dipartimento per l’informazione e l’editoria – Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
- Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
- INAIL – Istituto Nazionale per l’Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro
- INPS – Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale
- ISPRA – Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca ambientale
- ISTAT – Istituto Nazionale di Statistica
- Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale
- Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali
- Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali
- Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare
- Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze
- Ministero dell’Interno
- Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca
- Ministero della Difesa
- Ministero della Giustizia
- Ministero della Salute
- Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti
- Ministero delle Politiche agricole alimentari e forestali e del Turismo
- Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico
- Regione Emilia Romagna
- Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Regione Liguria
- Regione Lombardia
- Regione Marche
- Regione Puglia
- Regione Sardegna
- Regione Veneto
- Senato della Repubblica
- SOGEI – Società Generale d’Informatica
- Team per la Trasformazione Digitale
- UNIONCAMERE – Unione italiana delle Camere di commercio, industria, artigianato e agricoltura
- UPI – Unione Province d’Italia
The Open Government Forum of civil society was convened by Minister Bongiorno on 28 November 2018. The meeting, attended by the Minister herself, provided an opportunity to discuss the issues of transparency, participation, accountability and innovation and present the drafting process of the 4th Action Plan. The CSOs involved in the Forum were encouraged to submit additional proposals for the Plan.
On 23 January 2019, meetings of the Thematic Working Groups (transparency and open data, participation and accountability, innovation and digital skills) were held at the Department for Public Administration and were attended by representatives of public administrations and civil society.
The OGP Team Italy proposed10 thematic macro areas to systematize the suggestions coming from civil society and help public administrations outline their final proposals:
- Open Data
- Transparency
- Register of beneficial owners
- Support to participation
- Regulating access of stakeholders to decision-makers in PA
- Culture of open government
- Corruption prevention
- Simplification
- Digital services
- Digital citizenship and skills
Working Groups provided the setting for public administrations and civil society to discuss the commitments to be included under the macro areas.
In February, public administrations will have to decide on the commitments they are going to focus on, present them at the international level and draft the preliminary version of the Action Plan to be shared with the OGP Support Unit for review.
Between 11 and 17 March 2019, during the Open Gov Week, we will open a one-month public consultation on the draft 4th Action Plan on the website www.open.gov.it.
The Plan will be finalized by April 2019, after having analyzed the outcome of the public consultation and with the submission of the final draft of the Plan. Implementation will start in May. At the same time, the Plan and the outcome of the consultation will be published.
The drafting process aims at producing an ambitious and strategic Plan, with a limited number of commitments as recommended by the OGP, using an open and participatory approach. The final document will have to match the suggestions coming from civil society within the Open Government Forum and the possibility for administrations to take their proposals and translate them into realistic, feasible and tangible commitments. The participatory process underpinning the 4th Action Plan for Open Government will not end when the document is finalized but will continue throughout the implementation phase with the possibility for civil society to monitor and assess the process thanks to a dedicated tool available at www.open.gov.it and through the organization of a Forum of coordinators for each commitment in the Plan.
Pic by Raffaele Paciello