 I'm Francesca De Chiara, I'm from Italy and basically I'm a researcher at the Fundazione Bruno Kessler based in Trento, one of the first official nodes of the ODI and the only one in Italy I have to say. Then I'm working at the governance lab at New York University on this exciting project called Open Data 200 Italy, which is a project that maps data users, actually companies so businesses in Italy. Yes, because you know we are like recognized for food, for fashion, maybe for sunny weather, for pasta and pizza, but we have also a lot of companies that are making use of open data and are trying to build upon open data to and take advantage of this public resources and produce value. Yes, this is not the first time I was here I mean on this stage so hopefully it's the second time, this is one of the picture of the ODI global network. I put this picture here because you know what we do in Italy I mean with the ODI Trento, with the Fundazione Bruno Kessler, is trying to catalyze this cultural shift that Gavin was mentioning a lot of times today and also in the past and yes Open Data 200 Italy is one of our actions I mean to try to catalyze this open data culture and try to establish connection with not just government but also with private sector. So and yes Italy is an emerging country in terms of openness. This is the result of the open data barometer in 2014. We are 22nd, I mean 22, so not really well positioned in the middle I have to say and yes these are this cluster I mean of emerging and advanced countries are countries that you know have opened up and have like many open data initiatives but also are considered like potential good you know open more open countries so what what happened in 2015 our national portal was really I mean there was a new release of the national portal so we had also other other portals launched one is soldy publisher which is about public spending data then there was this open expo so we released open data about the expo 2015 in Milan then there is this Italia Sicur another portal that is about disaster management so we put out I mean a lot of data but no one is doing a first systematic study of what I mean on who is using this data so that question that you know Joel Gurin was asking last year during and also Tom at the ODI summit 2014 was open data so what so yes so I was inspired by them I mean and I try to catalyze these you know efforts and bring them in in Italy so I started to study this this you know in project called open data 500 which was the first comprehensive study of companies that are using open data to generate business develop products and services and create social value and it was intrigued by this open data compass you can see on the screen which maps the connection between the agencies I mean the departments the public departments in the US government and sectors made the companies I mean clustered by sectors so very very interesting and we will have the same with our study in Italy because actually I'm working directly with who has created this study I mean at the governance lab and so far what we have mapped like two more than 200 companies in Italy it was really challenging I mean very very hard but very very excited to do that because you know I used all my contacts in the open data community I was used to be a researcher but also an activist in Italy so I interviewed a lot of people I was like very thrilled to be back and be a sociologist again so actually ethnographer yeah so these are the study goals that are quite the same of the open data 500 so the study is not a rating of companies we just are mapping and try to actually map not just companies but also organization like NGOs sorry and we did we did it through desk research like interviews and we have like sending out this survey and also will be open and published on our website we got a lot of interest by and that was very very overwhelming I mean when we launched the study a lot of interest of government from government of Italy so the agency Italy digital then private companies we are collaborating with like spazio dati and we are using this at oca.io that is a sales intelligent intelligent product that we use to collect information about companies actually many details are closed data so in Italy so that was really really useful for us for our research then the union of chambers of commerce are trying to promote and spread I mean the world and also the survey through to the companies and also we are talking to all dying at the open data incubator so with people from Hodeye that are earning the open data incubator for Europe to gather data about Italian companies that are joining the program and also phenodex which is another accelerator program you funded so I will give you a glimpse of some you know of the what's out there in Italy so this is a company called Servet it's a large company actually not a startup but a group so they used extensively budget and spending data from open cohesion portal which is a portal released by the territorial cohesion agency in Italy to produce rating services and trying to support and decision-making processes for companies so it's a B2B actually model business model they run then there is spazio dati another I mean very important startup in the world of open data they are like pioneers I think as startup they started with publishing open data catalogs but now they have released some new products very very exciting exciting like dandelion which is a text analytic as a service so that built is built upon the knowledge graph of Wikipedia so they use open community data a talker that I'm I'm using myself for my research and then they have also other project founded by the European Union but also have huge investor that invested in startup some years ago so there's another case I mean Planetech which is in the south which is the news in the south southern Italy very very important company that you know produces tools to better access to open satellite data the data coming from the program Copernicus and released by the European Space Agency then there is my cube another startup that is very very interesting because it's like solving public problems with this platform called the boy your wallo I want the role it's a platform for teachers that are trying to find the best region to apply for a position a permanent position as a teacher and they use it they uses data from the Ministry of Education and that is the not not last one last last but not least open move I'm very excited about it because I am the con I contributed in the creation of the startup I mean I was running this Trentino open data challenge and they they won the competition and then now they are you know on the market with this open platform for mobile ticketing they were using the transportation data from the regional catalog from the local transportation agency and and there is another startup called code so this is from Sardinia and Tuscany and you know that they do like data visualization and they work for media companies using census data primarily from the National Institute of Statistics so this is our I don't know if I can call it portfolio I'm not a venture capitalist but I I really would like to like simulate some investors to come to Italy and you know we have a lot of companies very very promising and that are that are I mean my interest is about companies that are reusing open data but this is our some take away so as Tom last last year did like we are you know I think it's the comparison could be done because you know also we see that open data impacts all sectors not just the usual suspects so tech startups so tech companies or but also other sectors insurance agriculture yes you can see by December the full result of this study then it's they are distributed all over the country so not just in the north also in Sicily I have a lot of case studies then there are company that are just SMEs also individuals and different sizes I mean many companies of different sizes yeah we will hand the study in December so stay tuned and this is my contacts thank you thank you Francesca and I have to say it's great to see that the conclusions you're drawing so far are consistent with the ones that we found in in the UK I think it's a really strong message about diversity of sectors diversity of geography and diversity of size as well but the questions from the audience we have a couple of minutes okay in the meantime I'll kick off with one of my own if you'll indulge me which is that when we were doing our study here in the UK we found it really it was hard enough to identify companies that that self-identify as open data companies because there's an incredible amount of activity out there and even in for an organization like the ODI we don't know all of them personally so we found it hard enough to find those people but we also realized that there's a whole world of organizations out there that we call we would class as open data companies they meet our inclusion criteria and but they just don't realize that they think of themselves as an open data company and I was wondering if you could share any reflections from your own experience actually in the survey we have included a question about the perception of open data I already did a survey with phenodex accelerator and I discovered that many companies that were applying for an accelerator that has in the create in the criteria like making me you make use of open data they don't know actually what open data is yes and that was very very funny but very interesting because we can work work for for them and try to you know like showing them opportunities happen it and actually some companies have contacted me and also my organization to participate to the study and you know to find the right person in the company that is the challenge I can't you know just send my survey to or my my questionnaire to an address like info. Tom hits box.com you know I have to find Tom and interview him so yes but also the chambers of commerce is trying to help and you know with focus groups so trying to involve like the concept of round tables that we're implementing in the U.S. last year and they are keeping doing that so yes for me it's exciting because it involves all the actors in the ecosystem so the government the researchers the start-upers the people from the company the developers yes and also the curious activists and civic hackers from spaghetti open data because we are not you know like famous for pasta but our main open data community named itself after spaghetti yes so thank you thank you on that note let's thank Francesca.