From “this data is mine and I manage it” to “these data are ours and we manage them together”

Data & Analytics Framework

From “this data is mine and I manage it” to “these data are ours and we manage them together”

Digital Transformation Team publishes the post on Data & Analytics Framework by Raffaele Lillo, Team Chief Data Officer

"A few years from now, I imagine a country that, thanks to digitalization, has won the battle to simplify the state-citizen-enterprise relationship".

With these words, Diego Piacentini, Government Commissione for the Digital Agenda, imagines the future of our Country, adding, in addition

"A country where Big Data is not simply a privacy issue or something to be fearful of, under the dominion of a small number of agencies, but an essential part of a modern public infrastructure that generates benefits for citizens".

Benefit for citizens is precisely the object of the Medium post of Raffaele Lillo, Chief Data Officer of the Digital Transformation Team.

Here is the beginning of the post

"Public information pertains to all of us and is necessary to launch businesses, conduct activities and access public services. It contains data the PA needs to offer services; data that can help the State identify problems more efficiently and develop better solutions; data through which citizens might get to know the actions of the State and assess its results. Gaining access to public data and benefitting from it are essential components of the New Operating System of the Country. We would like to achieve these goals during our mandate, using this channel to provide you with step-by-step updates on our progress (and, if you want to help us write the chapter, Data, contribute to our discussion group or use #DataGovernment)."

And the post continues:

"Imagine not having to fill out hundreds of forms with the same information, or, with a single click, be able to manage your demographic and residential information, view the daily updated status of your business, and conduct communications with the PA; imagine smarter cities, with buildings that alert the system of structural damage, with road networks that interact with traffic control tools and monitoring centers; imagine being in full possession of public information, to be able to see how your taxes are being spent, to see the type of services you are receiving and, finally, make sure that all of these capabilities are placed — with the proper privacy and security precautions — in the service of civil society, which will be able to use public data to develop new services, generate value and employment opportunities and finally give life to the much-invoked API economy."

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To “exiting the silos” we will have to overcome the traditional mindset of “this data is mine and I manage it” and embrace the realization that public data is an asset to the State (and therefore, to all public administrations) and of civil society in general. Instead, the task of collecting, managing and making data available will be entrusted to managers located within their own area of expertise. We need an alert and comprehensive command center to reorganize and unite existing resources and ensure the birth of new projects already open to data interchange. It will be crucial to systematize available talents and positive forces: the Team for Digital Transformation has begun this process by working, on an experimental basis, with a select pool of State and Municipal software houses, to build, as quickly as possible, the first prototype of a Data & Analytics Framework. It’s a partnership between a big data platform (which acquires, processes and provides information for analysis and machine-to-machine interchange) and two teams: a team of data scientists to work on the data and propose new prototypes and solutions, and a team of data visualization experts who use visual storytelling to effectively convey (and make more accessible) the information present in the data. At the same time, we are working with CONSIP to acquire cloud computing resources and elastic storage to complement the specific needs of the private cloud.

"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can build" - concludes Raffaele.

The post continues on Medium to this link.