As part of the final event of the AwareEU project on May 23 at the European Commission Representation in Rome, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on civic monitoring and its role in shaping a more transparent, evidence-based, and citizen-oriented implementation of European funds. This session brought together three perspectives that, taken together, form […]
What happens when citizens and journalists join forces to investigate how public investments truly impact local communities? How can civic monitoring reports become the foundation for journalistic inquiries that reveal unseen contradictions, inefficiencies, or even success stories? Investigative journalism has the power of transforming raw civic data into compelling narratives that can spark public debate, […]
This article stems from our collaboration with the initiative Dati Bene Comune. A previous version was published in Italian in their newsletter. Dati Bene Comune is a civic campaign that works to unlock and make usable public interest datasets—especially those that are unpublished, hard to access, or poorly documented. By transforming these data resources, the […]
On March 21, 2025, I had the pleasure of representing Monithon at the final event of a civic monitoring pilot supported by the Managing Authority of the ERDF Lazio Regional Programme 2021–2027. Held at WeGil in Rome, the event brought together local administrations, associations, national and international institutions to discuss the outcomes of a participatory […]
On March 13, 2025, I had the opportunity to participate in the “Transport for People” meeting, held at the Center for European Transport Projects headquarters in Warsaw. Organized with the support of European Commission – DG REGIO and the OECD, the event brought together policymakers, researchers, civil society organizations, and academics to explore how citizens […]
Today I had the opportunity to speak at the #OpenDataDay event at Puglia Region, Italy. My panel was entitled “Open Data: A Dialogue Between Public Administrations and Civil Society.” The event brought together government representatives, civil society organizations, and technical experts to discuss best practices and ongoing challenges in unlocking public data to foster transparency, […]
Since the last post on the results of our civic monitoring of public policies, nearly 300 new monitoring reports have been added to the monithon.eu platform, more than twice the number that we had in 2016: 300 new studies, each focusing on one of many projects taking place throughout Italy that are funded by Cohesion (or […]
It has been four years since the team of the Italian national portal of open data OpenCoesione, while taking part in the first gathering of the Spaghetti Open Data community, proposed to transform a hack-athon into moni-thon, that’s to say a civic monitoring marathon of public funding. The idea was and still is simple: to choose […]
The partnership between OpenCoesione (government initiative) and Monithon (civil society) represented Italy at the Open Government Partnership High-Level Event held on September 24th in the United Nations Building in New York. The partnership was nominated through a public consultation that took place at the end of May 2014. The result is incredible – a fantastic 4th position […]
A couple of weeks ago we presented a paper at the Smart City Exhibition 2013 in Bologna, Italy entitled “Citizen monitoring of cohesion policies in southern Italy and the development of civic communities”. We tried to put our civic monitoring experiments in a context by collecting some relevant literature at the intersection of social capital, […]
At the final conference of the EIBURS-TAIPS research project, I had the chance to have breakfast with professor Lucio Picci from the University of Bologna. Lucio is a well-known scholar in the e-government field, who have paid particular attention to governance issues. He served as a senior scientist at the Institute for Perspective Studies in […]
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