ROUTE-TO-PA envisions that Information and Communication Technologies for Transparency must improve the engagement of citizens by making them able to socially interact over open data, by forming or joining existing online communities that share common interest and discuss common issues of relevance to local policy, service delivery, and regulation.
The objectives of Route-To-PA are: to develop a Social Platform for Open Data (SPOD) enabling social interactions among open data users and between open data users and government data; to build Transparency-Enhancing Toolset (TET) as extensions for existing major Open Data Platforms; and to develop a set of recommendations (GUIDE) as good practice guide for open data publishers for achieving higher quality transparency through open data. The objectives are deployed, tested and experimented in a real setting, with at least 5 pilot studies in five different European countries.
