After the two earthquakes that caused multiple casualties and widespread damage in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna in 2012, multiple programmes were launched to reconstruct the affected areas. To make these efforts more transparent, a team from the Gran Sasso Science Institute last week presented an Open Data platform that will provide all information on who is responsible, which company is doing what, and how the money is being spent.
The 'Open Data Ricostruzione' initiative was presented last week at the Italian Festival of Participation. The platform will bring together all the numbers, figures and information on the reconstruction, and allow visitors to visualise, filter, track and map the available data. All information will be made available as open data, in the original database format as well as JSON.
Close collaboration
The 'Open Data Ricostruzione' platform was developed by a team of computer scientists, technicians and open data experts, as well as researchers and students of the Gran Sasso Science Institute. They worked in close collaboration with the two special offices for reconstruction, local institutions and the central government.
According to the initiators, the platform is ready and will be launched this fall.
