From the Business Register to PRA and the National Registry Office: public databases before "open data"
At the time to which we refer, the issue of Open Data still belonged to the realm of science fiction; at the most, as if evoking some esoteric reality, there was talk of "databases". The period was the early '80s; in the previous five years there had been massive investments in Italy in technologies which from "IT" would in a few years become "of information" for modernising the activity of Public Administrations. At the centre, the General Accounting Office was computerised and[…]