Public transparency in the Age of Open Data. A comparative study of the Italian and French legal systems.

Objects, medium, sources, governance, content, actors, purposes and forms of public transparency are experiencing a rapid and profound evolution, which transcends national borders, and depends on the interaction between political, technological, legal and socio-cultural drivers. This happens when transparency exploiting the Open Government Data means and falls under the Open Government framework.
Through the Italian French legal systems, this thesis aims to highlight the recent advancements in public transparency. At first, we will look at the interplay between the concepts of transparency and openness, to identify the legal issues raised by the disclosure of public data. Subsequently, we will turn to the supranational context, which plays a key role in developing guidelines, standards and recommendations. A special place will be reserved to the right (and political) of the European Union. In the second part we will analyse the above mentioned legal systems, which are actively engaged in the wider reform of their Public Information Acts, within the framework of multi-stakeholders initiatives, such as the Open Government Partnership.
On the whole we will see how the shift from transparency from documents to transparencu through data challenges the public action models.