Public Administration in the Era of Database and Information Exchange Networks: Empowering Administrative Power or Just Better Serving the Citizens?

SUMMARY: 1. Data collection and Data Management in the Era of ICT: who are the “Masters of Data”?.- 2. Public Administration and digital(ized) Data: what’s new?.- 3. Data collection and Data exchange at the national (Italian) and supranational (EU) level: the new Network-Systems of Public Administrations.- 4. The EU Information-Exchange-Networks: Data collection, Data exchange and the creation of shared Databases.- 5. Data-Management-Networks and Public Administration: the Bright Side, and the Dark Side.- 6. Public Administration in the Era of Database and Information Exchange Networks: Empowering Administrative Power or Just Better Serving the Citizens? Conclusions.