Entries by Monithon

Italian multi-stakeholder Open Government Partnership forum includes civic monitoring among strategic objectives

27/09/2024/0 Comments/in /by

The Italian Open Government Forum (Forum Governo Aperto) has confirmed civic monitoring as one of the strategic objectives contained in the current version of the National Strategy for open government, within the framework of the Open Government Partnership, the international initiative that promotes transparency, citizen participation, the fight against corruption, and the use of new […]

Eurozine’s Article Highlights Challenges in EU Recovery Fund Transparency – Featuring Insights from Monithon

05/09/2024/0 Comments/in /by

A new article in Eurozine tackles the challenges surrounding the European Union’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and its implementation across member states. It painstakingly explores critical issues such as transparency, fraud prevention, and the effectiveness of the RRF in achieving its intended goals. Key sources cited in the article are representatives of European institutions […]

iMonitor Project Presented at the G20 Anticorruption Working Group: Highlights from Panel Discussion

04/07/2024/0 Comments/in , , /by

Monithon Europe had the privilege of being represented by its president Luigi Reggi at the recent G20 Anticorruption Working Group event “Just and Sustainable Procurement for People and Planet” held in Paris, France. This gathering saw key discussions on the role of public procurement and the monitoring of public spending through open data and digital […]

We need more data on how Italian RRF projects are progressing

27/04/2024/0 Comments/in /by

The Italian Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) was approved by the European Council on 13 July 2021. Since then, a complex administrative machine has started with the aim of implementing such an ambitious and financially relevant plan. A machine that involved all levels of government, from national to local. PNRR investments are made through projects. Each […]

iMonitor, a civic monitoring network to prevent corruption, is launched: join us!

09/12/2023/0 Comments/in , , /by

December 9th is the International Day against Corruption, an opportunity to raise awareness of the consequences of this social, political, and economic phenomenon which affects all countries and deprives citizens of fundamental rights, slows down economic development, undermines the institutions, and the rule of law. We take this opportunity to announce Monithon’s participation in the iMonitor […]

Italian government releases open data on Recovery projects

21/04/2023/0 Comments/in /by

This is one of the most awaited news by Italian transparency advocates, journalists, and researchers. Two years after the launch of the Italian Recovery Plan (PNRR) and countless calls for transparency, it is now possible to access the information contained in the monitoring system of the Ministry of Economy and Finance on the individual projects […]

Environmental monitoring in Salento

25/12/2022/0 Comments/in , /by

The long work of the Mobius Circle APS – Precious Plastic Salento association concluded yesterday, which used the Monithon method for its first work of civic monitoring of public projects. A work that began last year thanks to the European project Civic Monitoring for the future of Europe , for which Monithon provided a specialized training course on […]

Italian civil society asks the Government for data on the projects funded by the Recovery Plan

30/11/2022/0 Comments/in /by

On November 30th, 2022, more than 60 Italian civil society entities (here is the full list, updated daily) representing citizens, associations, groups, movements, universities, and research centers, sent an open letter to the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, and to the Minister for the European Affairs, Cohesion Policies and the RRF, Raffaele Fitto, denouncing the serious […]

Welcome Kohesio, the new tool for discovering projects for territorial cohesion throughout Europe

17/03/2022/0 Comments/in /by

Well done European Commission! Kohesio – the online platform that collects data and information on over 1.5 million projects financed by Cohesion Policy all over Europe – was launched earlier today by Commissioner Elisa Ferreira, after being published in beta version for a while. 📣We launch today a new database #Kohesio allowing everyone to discover […]

Monithon meets the New York Public Library

30/09/2021/0 Comments/in /by

Yesterday we had the honor to have a conversation with brilliant Daphna Blatt and Caitlyn Colman-McGaw from the New York Public Library (NYPL) about future applications of civic monitoring in New York City. Daphna Blatt, who is Director of Strategic Research & Analytics at the NYPL, learned about us in the book Mistrust by our […]

There is a new app in town: Monithon Project Finder helps you discover EU-funded project in your city

22/04/2021/0 Comments/in , /by

On Friday 16 April was presented to the public the “Monithon Project Finder” – a new web application created by Monithon in collaboration with the designers and developers of Sheldon Studio, starting from the open data published by OpenCoesione, which helps to locate the projects financed in the environmental sector from European funds 2014-2020. An […]

MoniTutor is the new online mentor for citizens monitoring how public funding is spent

15/02/2020/0 Comments/in /by

MoniTutor is a new, Italian online guide developed by Monithon, a civil society initiative that provides methods and tools for citizens that want to monitor how public money is used. Since 2013, anyone can use the Monithon online platform to send “civic monitoring reports” evaluating the effectiveness of public projects funded by the European Union […]

Monithon shortlisted for the ODI Open Data Award

23/10/2014/0 Comments/in /by

We’re happy to announce that Monithon was included in the short list of possibile winners of the Open Data Institute Open Data Award! The ceremony will take place on the evening of the 4 November in London during the ODI Summit, a 2-days conference with talks and training opportunities. The panel of international judges includes Beth Noveck, director […]

QR codes and the transparency of the EU Policy

22/08/2014/0 Comments/in /by

QR codes, a technology that dates back to the 1990s, have been considered a failure by many marketing experts. In this video, Scott Stratten explains why “QR codes kill kittens” 🙂 However, since WeChat had successfully included a QR code reader in its mobile application in China, QR codes seem to have been back on the […]