Openapi Contributes to the Report for the Parliamentary Commission on Suburbs

On February 11, 2026, Openapi provided an essential technical contribution on data and georeferencing to the report submitted by Fondazione Openpolis during its hearing before the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on the safety conditions and urban decay of cities and their suburbs.

An intervention that confirms Openapi’s role as an enabling digital infrastructure for the development of advanced territorial analyses and for supporting public policies based on reliable, certified, and interoperable data.

The Value of Granular Data in Urban Policies

Suburbs are not merely a geographical issue, but a multidimensional reality that requires precise analysis at a sub-municipal level. The report highlights this clearly: certified data from official sources, up-to-date datasets, integration between statistics and administrative archives, neighborhood-level georeferencing, and interoperable infrastructures are essential.

This is precisely where Openapi comes into play, with its targeted technical support.

Georeferencing and Data Infrastructure: Openapi’s Contribution

The report includes sub-municipal maps of metropolitan cities and the geolocation of sensitive facilities, particularly those providing services for minors.

Georeferencing was carried out through Openapi APIs, which enable:

• Automatic integration of territorial data
• Address normalization and validation
• Access to certified geocoding services
• Creation of interoperable and up-to-date datasets

The API-first approach makes it possible to transform complex sources into operational tools usable by institutions, research bodies, and local administrations.

High-Quality Data to Overcome Fragmentation

One of the key issues highlighted in the report is the need for a permanent, open, and interoperable data infrastructure at a sub-municipal scale.

The fragmentation of sources and the lack of shared standards make it difficult to:

• Compare different territories
• Set coherent priorities
• Measure the real impact of policies
• Build evaluations based on outcomes rather than just outputs

Openapi operates precisely in this direction: making data accessible, verifiable, integrable, and ready to use through standardized APIs.

Data as Enabling Infrastructure

Territorial policies on housing, mobility, and services generate impact only if they are grounded in solid diagnoses and monitoring systems that are comparable over time.

Openapi’s experience in managing certified data, normalizing it, and delivering it through APIs makes it possible to:

• Enable dashboards and territorial observatories
• Support civic monitoring systems
• Build replicable indicators
• Promote transparency and accountability

Data is not just information: it is public infrastructure.

Openapi’s Strategic Role

A 100% European API platform, Openapi provides an ecosystem to access official data, integrate public datasets, automate checks and analyses, and accelerate the digital transformation of public administrations.

This participation in the Parliamentary Commission on Suburbs demonstrates a commitment to more effective policies, grounded in granular and interoperable data. Without a solid data infrastructure, no public policy is truly measurable.

Because without a data infrastructure, measurable public policy does not exist.