OpenCUP Portal – National Registry of Public Investment Projects (IT0027)

Short description Evolution of the portal OpenCUP as a tool to support transparent and informed public choices and integration with other national open data portals. General objective Plan and effectively guide the use of available resources through the active participation and involvement of all stakeholders. Allow citizens and institutions to monitor and evaluate development policies by granting access to the registry of public investment projects. Current situation In the past years, a few initiatives to publish open data on public investment projects were launched, i.e. the main Italian portals OpenCoesione, OpenCantieri, GeoDipe, ItaliaSicura and OpenCUP itself (at the moment only limited to public works). In most cases, these are recent initiatives with a high potential for development. What is increasingly taking place is the integration between these systems through the unique identification number of each “project” - the CUP - which makes it possible for the different systems to communicate and therefore fully use the vast information resources they contain. The advantage in terms of transparency that could be obtained thanks to the possibility to cross-correlate the data contained in these environments, is of high value. The initial version of the OpenCUP portal was launched in early January 2016 and will be further developed in the next three years. Expected results The main expected results include: » Improved access to and usability of the information published in OpenCUP by all stakeholders, the aim being to increase, among other things, civic participation in public decision-making; » Greater integration between the OpenCUP portal and other “Open” portals – i.e. OpenCoesione, OpenCantieri, GeoDipe – managed by any other administration that is interested in the initiative. The precondition for the above integration is the use of the Single Project Code (CUP – Codice unico di progetto) – as the identification key of public investment projects. More specifically, the already existing integration between OpenCUP and OpenCoesione will be further enhanced so as to provide a real service facilitating, among other things, the use of the integrated content of both portals.

For commitment details, see IRM Year 1 report: https://www.opengovpartnership.org/documents/italy-mid-term-report-2016-2018-year-1/

For commitment details, download the IRM report: https://www.opengovpartnership.org/documents/italy-end-of-term-report-2016-2018/