Open Government - Total transparency and implementation in Italy and in the Sicilian Region
The Open Government or open Administration collects the set of institutions aiming to ensure the full transparency of public administration, citizens’ participation in public decision-making through measures that help responsibility, organizational performance, widespread control, the simplification and use of new information technologies, data reusing, the interaction, and bidirectionality (Carloni E., 2013).
The web, if used in connection with Open Government practices, it becomes an extraordinary controlling method not only to clash inefficiencies, corruption and bad administration, but also to promote transparency and develop participation practices.
This paper argues that the anti-corruption provisions applications and the subsequent applicator decree (Law no. 190/2012 and Decree 33/2013) in the subject 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 recognizing a citizen general right to the full disclosure and exploitation of administrative data, in open format, to strengthen the features as a service mean for people and enterprises.
