March 13, 2012
Milan open city: lettera27 takes part into Open Data meeting
On Wednesday 14th March the City of Milan and the University of Milano-Bicocca present Open Data, a project that makes all the data, created by the city administration, open, free and available online. The initiative marks an important step for the city toward the open government. Therefore the open data can be freely used for research, study and innovative ideas, both entrepreneurial and municipal ones. Iolanda Pensa, WikiAfrica and Share Your Knowledge scientific director, takes part into the meeting, introducing the Milanese cultural institutions that have already adopted Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike free license, within Share Your Knowledge project, and given their contribution to Wikipedia. Also the achieved results will be shown.

Pieces of information about means of transport, environment, garbage, parking, shops opening hours: Milan will talk about itself to the population through these and many other data, so that it will be more see-through and clear to its own citizens. This meeting also represents the chance to officially build a permanent working platform for the study and the analysis of the Open Data, with the involvement of the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino, Consorzio TopIX and Tech and Law Center.

Some of the guests: Milan Mayor Giuliano Pisapia, Marcello Fontanesi – rector of Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Davide Corritore – Milan city manager, Giuseppe Vaciago of the Tech and Law Center and Federico Morando - Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino, lettera27 partner for WikiAfrica and Share Your Knowledge projects.


Image: DATABASE, Postmasters, March 2009, by Michael Mandiberg / CC BY-SA