Transparent Milan: Public Registry of Elected and Appointed Representatives (IT0034)

Short description Publishing any document useful to assess the activity of councilors and any other act approved by the Municipal Council, City Board and City Districts using infrastructural solutions which grant access to all the information on their activities and performance in an integrated and user-friendly environment. General objective Value the institutional work of decision-makers by turning the Municipal Council, City Board and City Districts in the main places for participation. Current situation The City of Milan developed a number of initiatives on transparency and participation in the last few years, including the updated Statute of Municipal Regulations, new forms of citizens’ initiative that can be activated online, new guidelines on participatory urban planning and a pilot project on participatory budgeting. The website of the City of Milan was recently renovated and it has become more usable. However, all these initiatives are still graphically and organizationally disseminated in autonomous areas and often lack coordination. For example, services like the directory and activities of councilors, the information currently included in the “Transparent Administration” section, in the official noticeboard, in the communication areas, in the web streaming service and in the intranet, should be brought together and strengthened using evaluation tools that are not available yet. Expected results The reorganization of content and the benchmarking of activities allow citizens to learn about the action of institutional bodies by turning them into the main places for participation and foster the interaction and involvement of citizens with their elected or appointed representatives. Learning about the ongoing activities and procedures will help ensure transparency, organize citizens’ initiatives and data retrieval that retrace the historical perspective and background of lawmaking and scrutiny of institutional bodies. The reference model is the system already used on the web sites of the European Parliament and the Italian Parliament. More specifically, the public registry of elected representatives will include: 1. A complete overview of their participation in institutional proceedings or representing the institutions (committees, municipal council, city board meetings, participation in local or interinstitutional meetings); 2. Votes expressed on any decision adopted by the Municipal Council or City Board; 3. Legislation and draft legislation submitted to the Council and their development until completion (questions, motions, agendas, draft decisions, amendments); 4. Legislation approved by the City Board and the Municipal Council, broken down by year, topic, rapporteur, procedure; acts have to be traceable using advanced search options or text search; each act has to be made available online within seven days since its adoption.

For commitment details, see IRM Year 1 report: https://www.opengovpartnership.org/documents/italy-mid-term-report-2016-2018-year-1/

For commitment details, download the IRM report: https://www.opengovpartnership.org/documents/italy-end-of-term-report-2016-2018/