A free, open civic-tech dataset on Italy.
Trasparenza.ai is the largest aggregator of Italian public spending data — built for citizens, free for journalists. Below: key numbers, story angles, contact info, and dataset access.
📊 Key numbers (verified, as of 2026-05-14)
🎯 Story angles
Five potential angles, each with original data you won't find elsewhere. Happy to provide exclusive regional cuts on request.
Italy mapped: 4.6M public contracts analyzed for anomalies
First systematic analysis of every Italian municipal contract since 2008. Algorithm flagged 10,400 statistical red flags (supplier concentration, direct-award abuse, threshold-fragmentation). Each anomaly is a potential investigation lead.
Where did €191B of EU recovery funds actually go?
336,000 PNRR projects mapped municipality by municipality. With 14 months left to the 2026 EU deadline, we can identify which towns risk losing funds vs. which are spending efficiently.
The highest-paid mayors in Italy (and what the law says)
All 7,904 Italian mayors with salary calculated by Italian law (D.L. 17/2022 art. 9). Ranking and breakdown by population tier, regional capital bonus, provincial capital bonus.
Vodafone Italy is Rome's biggest contractor (€17.1B)
For each Italian city, the top suppliers ranked by 10-year contract volume. Useful for local press: who really gets the public money in your region?
Italo-Brazilian builds Italy's biggest transparency platform from $15/month
Tech behind the scenes: how a single developer in Goiânia (Brazil) built and runs 7,904 statically-generated pages, an SQL anomaly-detection algorithm, and 36 daily cron jobs for less than the price of a Netflix subscription.
🔍 Sample pages (Italian)
Each of the 7,904 municipality pages is in Italian (that's the language of the source data). Browse a few:
💬 Pull quotes (founder)
Approved for direct quotation. Attribution: Gianluca Ferro, founder of Trasparenza.ai.
"Lo Stato sa tutto di te. Tu non sai quasi niente di lui. Trasparenza esiste sulla carta, non sullo schermo."
(English: The State knows everything about you. You know almost nothing about it. Transparency exists on paper, not on screen.)
"I dati esistono. Bastava metterli insieme."
(English: The data exists. Just had to put it together.)
📦 Data access (free)
Journalists and researchers can access the underlying data three ways:
- Direct Supabase REST API — public read access, no signup.
https://diaokmfkvomjghamdpze.supabase.co/rest/v1/ - GitHub repo — full source code + ingest scripts: github.com/gianlucaferro/trasparenza (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
- Custom dataset on request — write to contato@trasparenza.ai for regional/topical cuts as CSV/JSON