OPPORTUNITIES – CONCLUSION

From the research path and the experiences explored in this article, it is clear how the data available to cities hold a strong link with the citizens themselves, suggesting scenarios in which they can play an active role in the identification of data that are able to describe specific needs. It also emerges the need to promote educational models able to increase the consciousness not only of the simple data collection but also of the power represented by the human capital.

Because data can be produced anywhere as a human being. But the collection, the editing, the reuse of the data, the tools and the people with the capacity to work on this data to convert and transform this into insights, case study and best practices represent today the real key point.

Cities of any type or size, now, have the responsibility to build an open data infrastructure that is capable of generating active citizen participation. Only in this way will they be able to benefit from the creative potentials generated by collective intelligence, following the example of more data-rich cities, and co-designing better cities.