La pubblicazione dei dati sui beneficiari dei Fondi Strutturali: quali strategie per le regioni europee?

Ricci, Chiara Assunta and Biagetti, Marco and Reggi, Luigi (2015): La pubblicazione dei dati sui beneficiari dei Fondi Strutturali: quali strategie per le regioni europee? Forthcoming in: Prisma Economia-Società-Lavoro No. 3/2014

Abstract

European Cohesion Policy and its Structural Funds, involving all EU Regions and Member States, are a well-suited context to verify the presence of different approaches to the publication of Open Government Data, a crucial tool to foster governmental transparency and accountability. Following the theoretical framework introduced by Dawes (2010), this paper is aimed at exploring how national and regional managing authorities of Structural Funds are making available the data on the use of the funding, in terms of both data stewardship (quality, format, accessibility, detail, etc.) and usefulness (availability of tools to interact with the data). The analysis takes into consideration 15 indicators aggregating 63 characteristics of the data published by each EU 2007-13 Programme in December 2013. Results show that only a fraction of the administrations is investing in advanced tools for data visualization and citizen engagement. Those authorities rely on good quality and high detail of the information, thus confirming the interdependence of the stewardship and usefulness principles, as highlighted in the literature.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Data publication on the beneficiaries of EU Structural Funds: what strategies for the European regions?
• Language: Italian
• Keywords: Open Government, Transparency, Government Information Strategies, Structural Funds
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D0 - General > D02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights > O38 - Government Policy

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