Its name is rItaliaCamp and it is the offspring of collective indignation of the Italian blogosphere following the release of italia.it, the shiny new portal for tourism that costed Italy more than 40 millions of euro.
Ever since I came back from LIFT where Mark Kuznicki, Michele Perras and Thomas Purves shared with me their enthusiasm for the recent TransitCamp (a BarCamp dedicated to help the city of Toronto by redesigning their transportation system’s website) I’ve been looking forward to a good cause where to apply this approach.
The loud upheaval regarding the Italia.it affair was just the perfect signal to start this new game.
So here’s the challenge: the tentative date for the camp is the 31st of March, so we have just one month to organize the conversation and our ideas around this basic question: “What a portal like Italia.it should look like?”
Then the event itself will be a slightly modified version of a common BarCamp: we’ll still have the presentations and the conversations, but we could also try to assemble a mockup, or some prototypes for the hypothethic new portal.
At the end of the day, we’ll assemble a draft (that will probably still be edited by the community in the following days) that describes our proposed solution in as much detail as possible. The document will be freely available and of course we’ll invite the italia.it people to take full advantage of it :)
The process already started, so what are you waiting for? Join the conversation.
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