Opencivitas

OpenCivitas is the portal of access to information of local authorities, a transparency initiative promoted by the Ministry of Economy and Finance and by SOSE, which from 1 January 2024, as a result of Law n.112 of 2023, has completed a process of merger by incorporation into Sogei. The merger aims to optimise the effectiveness, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the services provided to the Economic and Financial Administration.

The project was started by Law No. 42 of 5 May 2009 concerning fiscal federalism and the subsequent implementation provisions issued with Legislative Decree No. 216 of 26 November 2016.These provisions started a reform process aimed to define standard expenditure needs of Italian local governments and entrusted SOSE with the development of the calculation methods.

For the first time in Italy, citizens and local authorities can rely on a tool that allows:

TO KNOW the data collected to define standard expenditure needs
TO COMPARE local authorities’ performances
TO UNDERSTAND socioeconomic factors affecting overall expenditure needs
TO EVALUATE the services provided thanks to a set of indicators
TO ACCESS information in open data format

The available data refer to over 6.600 municipalities, 73 provinces,10 metropolitan districts and 3 mountain provinces in the Regions with Ordinary Statute.

For citizens Opencivitas is a useful tool to evaluate and monitor local authorities’choices.

For local authorities it is an operational support to define the best strategies to manage and use resources.

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