10th Anniversary of the Ethical Foundation



The need for due diligence... While we continue to hold events on open government and smart cities, the true fact of Italian public administrations is overlooked: that, apart from some obvious best practices, they are neither smart nor open .

Video of the meeting on Wednesday 14 November during which Fondazione Etica and Civicum, thanks to the support of Arca Fondi SGR, presented "Evaluating Municipalities to attract Investments, the Public Rating of Municipalities"

Our new report NEITHER SMART NOR OPEN, MEANWHILE CITIES has been published Second Report on the Public Rating of Municipalities: comparative evaluation of performance, transparency, anti-corruption

When we talk about public spending, it is necessary to distinguish the two different concepts of "cost" and "expenditure": what an administration "costs", a voice, unfortunately very rigid, which derives from the way in which the administration...
The mayor of Cuneo, Federico Borgna, welcomed with satisfaction the excellent placement of his Municipality in the transparency ranking of the Etica Foundation. “For the second consecutive year, Cuneo is positioned high in the ranking created by the Etica Foundation. A…
In the near future, the work of Municipalities and Regions could also be evaluated according to the Public Rating created by the Foundation. Fondazione Etica is a foundation that defines itself as independent and non-profit and which mainly deals with innovation in the public system…

Neither intelligent nor transparent, apart from a few exceptions. More often confusing, if you have to slalom through their sites to understand how to interface with the various municipal services. To compare them you even need to go back almost three years. To the…


In the Fondazione Etica Report there is an item in which the Municipality of Brescia really excels: the timeliness of payments. In other words, if there is a creditor to pay, the Lodge does it in a short time, it is so prompt...