Which and how many yards I’m late? All data on Opencantieri … – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on February 15, 2016 at 8:02.

it is true that in Italy all sites are late. Those rail for example are even in advance with a 3% work in progress ahead of schedule and a sovracosto variations of just 2%. Too bad you can not say the same of roads and subways, on average delayed by 5% of schedule. Among the great works, however, the Mose is right on schedule. The best news, however, is that these numbers can finally easily know, no requests and red tape.

Merit Opencantieri, the site for the transparency of public works created by the Ministry of infrastructure with the support of a task force consisting of experts of their own statistical service, the Fondazione Politecnico di Milano and Formez, with collaboration of the Ministry of economy and Finance and the Dipe, the Department for planning and coordination of the Presidency of the Council of economic policy from which the data arrives. The site, already recognized in the OECD as a best practice offers a good news: the publication of all data on the motorway concessions in progress. In addition to global indicators related to 32 major works of national interest, and many smaller entities contracts for a total investment of 71 billion, the portal allows you to explore the individual works. It ranges from the adjustments of individual railway stations in works such as the Venetian foothills that with 25% of the delay and the tripling of the construction costs is already under the lights of the Court of Auditors. Not only that, the site offers maps (strictly in OpenData formed through the adoption of OpenStreetMap as cartographic support), downloadable datasets of times, dealers, investment and internal rates applied, as well as an API system, the “application-program interface “that enable individuals and local governments to build applications able to offer ad-hoc services for construction sites that interest them.

Currently Opencantieri collects a fraction, some estimate at around 10%, of all the Italian sites but it is certainly a start to celebrate, because the Working Group was able to standardize data from many different sources, Anas to railways and to other dealers, who often used nomenclatre and formats. This so-called “interoperability” of data has so far been granted in the Italian public administration and, although it is a technological issue that usually only the most passionate geeks, is central to translating into reality the much-vaunted transparency and “accountability”. Indeed it is only through the work of simplification made by the Opencantieri team, who synthesized extremely complex subject in a basket of a 30ina indicators that we can finally get some answers to seemingly simple questions such as “how much?”, “What is cost up to now? “,” increased costs compared to the original forecast? “,” if it is late and by how much? “,” when it will be finished “? The bet now is that Opencantieri grow, as quickly as possible, to increase the efficiency of the country and maybe buy us other positions in that index of corruption which we are still peultimi in Europe before the Bulgaria alone.

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