[open-government] transparency and the lobbies in Italy

Sat Jan 7 20:14:49 UTC 2012

Luigi

Thanks for the acknowledgement

I live and work in many different countries, the pattern of corruption
seems common to most places I have been, and widespread everywhere, with
different flavors and to different degrees of course.

Knowing how things work in Italy helps me to understand how things work in
the rest of the world, which includes Bruxelles

In some places they use ' respecting cultural norms' lobbyist to justify
slavery and child abuse for example, in comparison Italy is rather decent
in that respect.

In the UK and USA lobbying is very common, and the majority of people
truly ignore  socio-political dynamics, and don't question much decisions,
and 'why is it so?'

Publishing open data sets is good  especially when it helps  us
understand what kind of 'democracies' we live in

So we make some better plan for the future, perhaps

P

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Luigi Selmi <selmi_luigi at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi Paola,
> interesting link. This is the same kind of corruption that is described
> by Lessig <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSVI4_jY344> in the US. In
> Italy we are also very accostumed to bribery but since we use the same word
> "corruzione" for the two types of corruption we pay less attention to the
> first kind that maybe is more costly from the national budget point of
> view.
>
>
> Luigi
>
> "It is easy to be certain. One only has to be sufficiently vague" - C.S.
> Peirce
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> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 19:31:54 +0000
> From: paola.dimaio at gmail.com
> To: open-government at lists.okfn.org; spaghettiopendata at googlegroups.com
> Subject: [open-government] transparency and the lobbies in Italy
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>
> A candid article about lobbyists and the Parliament in Italy, hopefully
> google can translate for non speakers
> Provides some context and background to the situation
>
> PDM
>
>
> http://www.repubblica.it/economia/2012/01/07/news/lobby_bloccano_parlamento-27701584/index.html?ref=search
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