Report on Innovation of the Regions in Italy 2010

The Report on Innovation of the Regions in Italy 2010 (RIIR) was designed and built as a dynamic instrument to access data and indicators at the regional level that are the basis of interpretation and analysis of the Report.

The objective of the Report is to facilitate, by means of dynamic representation, the display of information at regional level and thus enabling a comparative analysis of regional performance. With visualization tool developed by the project RIIR, it is possible to explore data sources and indicators of public statistics, displaying maps at various scales and analyzing spatial data in time series. It was decided, given the purpose of the report, to make available data on the level of regional breakdown. In this way it offers an innovative approach allows users to explore the phenomena from multiple perspectives simultaneously, discover relationships, see immediately represented regional differences and trends of evolution.

The selected indicators are aggregated here proposed for “families” in order to allow a more immediate reading of the phenomena that characterize the different actors of the “innovation system”:

•     Citizens and families: ICT indicators included, access and use
•     Companies: supplied ICT indicators, type of connection, interaction with the PA
•     Local innovation systems: indicators of human capital, patents, innovation, broadband
•     Public Administration: Indicators of ICT equipment, organizational innovation, dematerialization
•     Digital Divide: indicators of computer literacy, skills and “e-skills”

For each indicator is proposed in a consultation mode:

•     table (data from the last available year)
•     cartogram (data from the last available year)
•     display dynamic data in series with the possibility to select the chart type (bubble, histogram, linear), a single indicator, make comparisons between all or some selected regions, see the trend of the animated series mode.

The project is inspired by the logic of open data: the liberalization of access to information and public in the belief that “when the information is open, everyone can contribute to the common responsibility of the improvement.”