Italy / 2014 55% open

Following the amendments to the Code of eGovernment in Italy, where there is no any information about the license of one of the public service, the content is released into the open data. The default license is CC-by 4.0 (this is defined in the guidelines of the Digital Agency of Italy)

The General Accounting Office publishes data on central government spending of the state in time series from 2007 and processable format. The data allow to follow the evolution of resources allocated, committed and paid from the state budget, broken down into the public policy goals (missions and programs), the economic nature of the expenditure (by title and economic category), the nature of 'legislative authorization (by type of authorization) and the administration responsible for the implementation and management (accounting). [amended: it is possible to download state 2013 budget as xls from http://www.rgs.mef.gov.it/_Documenti/VERSIONE-I/Servizio-s/Studi-e-do/La-spesa-d/Tavole/1-BP-2013.xls under IODL2 as well as other documents mentioned above]

The official repository of the law is Gazzetta Ufficiale but this is content format. An access in data format is available at Normattiva The web site offer the laws in xml format. There is no directly reference for a license, but, the owner of the service is "Istituto Poligrafico Zecca dello Stato" and this is in the list of the PAs.

Therefore, because in the terms of the code of civil administration (CAD), if a PA publishes a dataset without reference to any license, this is considered open data by default. The kind of license is specified on the guidelines for the public sector information made by the digital agency for italy (AgID). The default license is "cc-by 4.0"

there are several services for the donwload Data are available There is no license, but the copyright notice states that commercial use of the information is available only under written authorization (http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/it/copyright) Not all the data are available [reviewed URL specifically for air pollutants]

Reviewer Comments (22.10.2014):

• general DB about air pollution available at http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/it/banche-dati/aria-ed-emissioni-in-atmosfera

• the only open licensed data are those contained in this page http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/it/amministrazione-trasparente/altri-contenuti/g8-open-data/open-data-ispra

"Is it up to date?": there are several known inconsistencies. You can look individual entries up via the form online but are prohibited from downloading it. You can pay for the whole dataset which would be sent via email.

The data of the italian zipcode are available with a restricted form online (= captcha) The entire data set is for sale. The national open data agenda of the italian digital agency announces the release as open data in late 2014. Currently there are no confirmation.

In Italy there are various geographical resources, few of them are open. Those open or are delegated to regions or cities. At the national level there are different realities but few of these are open or updated in a timely manner.

Only aggregated data is available via SIOPE at https://www.siope.it/siopelocale/siopewelcome.html to anyone who is granted access but it seems that some people are denied access to this system unjustly - according to some http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2012/11/04/soldi-pubblici-dati-restano-segreti-e-spr echi-crescono/

The situation of public transport in Italy is not homogeneous Each agency is working on a regional level and with its policies Many of them publish on google transit, but do not release as open date. The only national coverage is given to transport by train, but the data are not open.