Purposes pursued by the platform

The Open Innovation platform was set up with the aim of offering innovation operators a space for comparing and sharing knowledge and defining collaborative projects, facilitating the creation of partnerships and access to international networks, services and platforms whose purpose is consistent with the above-mentioned objectives, promoting dialogue between regional stakeholders and the recipients of policies to support research, innovation and competitiveness, and enabling continuous dialogue with the territory in the definition of regional support policies and instruments.

 

Content and use of the platform

Through the platform, news, discussion announcements, and collaboration proposals may be published that fall within the purpose of the initiative, i.e. to promote dialogue and facilitate the pooling of expertise around the themes of the regional strategy of smart specialisation for research and innovation. In any case, activities aimed at promoting purely commercial services, understood as the provision of a service against payment, are not allowed.

 

Moderation

On the Open Innovation platform there is no prior moderation: everyone can intervene to express their free opinion, following the good rules of politeness and respect for others. Users' comments and posts represent the opinion of individuals and Regione Lombardia cannot be held responsible for what is posted by third parties.

Comments and posts that violate the conditions set out in this document will be removed. Insults, bad language, threats or attitudes that offend the dignity of persons and the decorum of institutions, the rights of minorities and minors, and the principles of freedom and equality will not be tolerated. These guidelines are intended as a supplement to the principles known as 'netiquette' and which every member of an online community should already know and respect: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette

In particular, they will be removed:

content that promotes, encourages, or perpetuates discrimination on the basis of sex, race, language, religion, political opinion, creed, age, marital status, status in relation to public assistance, nationality, physical or mental disability or sexual orientation; sexual content or links to sexual content;

  • spam, advertisements and promotions of personal activities (blogs, private sites, etc.) will be removed immediately;
  • conducting or encouraging unlawful activity; information that may tend to compromise personal security or the security of public systems;
  • content that infringes the interest of a legal property or a third party
  • comments or posts containing sensitive data in violation of the Privacy Act and other personal data belonging to third parties not properly authorised;
  • Repeatedly inserted interventions

Comments and content of the following kinds are also discouraged and subject to moderation:

  • off topic: comments not relevant to a particular posted topic;
  • inefficiency reports: suggestions and complaints can be submitted by accessing the appropriate Support Request page
  • comments and posts written with offensive language, which are likely to disrupt the discussion or offend those who manage and moderate the discussions within the Platform;

For those who repeatedly violate these conditions, the moderators reserve the right to use banning or blocking to prevent further interventions and to report the user to the platform managers and possibly to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.

 

Privacy

The processing of users' personal data within the platform is governed by the terms of service that each user accepts when registering for the platform. For further details, please consult the Privacy Policy.

 

Contact

Users may address reports (e.g. copyright infringements) or complaints to: Request for technical assistance.

 

FACEBOOK, TWITTER, LINKEDIN, YOUTUBE

Here is a description of how the social media channels of the Open Innovation platform of Regione Lombardia are managed. The institutional channels are managed by the Open Innovation editorial staff under the coordination of the Communication Department of Regione Lombardia.

 

Contents

Open Innovation's social channels (Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter) are constantly updated with the publication of the following content: innovation stories, useful information and updates on regional Research and Innovation policies, calls, events, opportunities. Open Innovation's social channels publish text content, photographs, infographics, videos and other multimedia materials owned by the organisation and/or under Creative Commons CC BYND 3.0 licence: they can therefore be freely reproduced and must always be attributed to the author.

 

Moderation

Open Innovation Lombardia's social channels are moderated from Monday to Friday, from 8.30 am to 6.30 pm. Saturdays, public holidays and evening hours will be moderated only on the occasion of particularly important initiatives and events.

Open Innovation invites polite, relevant and respectful conversation. The moderators will not respond to comments that are out of place or concern statements by political subjects or their choices. They will also not respond to public comments or private messages that violate the principles and rules expressed in this social media policy. Comments and posts that violate the conditions set out in this document will be removed. Insults, profanity, threats or attitudes that offend the dignity of persons and the decorum of institutions, the rights of minorities and minors, and the principles of freedom and equality will not be tolerated. These guidelines are intended as a supplement to the principles known as 'netiquette' and which every member of an online community should already know and respect: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette

In particular, they will be removed:

  • content that promotes, encourages, or perpetuates discrimination on the basis of sex, race, language, religion, political opinion, creed, age, marital status, status in relation to public assistance, nationality, physical or mental disability or sexual orientation; sexual content or links to sexual content;
  • spam, advertisements and promotions of personal activities (blogs, private sites, etc.) will be removed immediately;
  • conducting or encouraging unlawful activity; information that may tend to compromise personal security or the security of public systems;
  • content that infringes the interest of a legal property or third party
  • comments or posts that present sensitive data in violation of the Privacy Act and other personal data belonging to third parties that are not appropriately authorised;
  • Repeatedly inserted interventions

Comments and content of the following kinds are also discouraged and subject to moderation:

  • off topic: comments not relevant to a particular published topic
  • comments and posts written with insulting language, likely to disrupt the discussion or offend those who manage and moderate the pages.

The moderators reserve the right to remove any content that is deemed to be in breach of this social media policy or any applicable law. For those who violate these conditions or those contained in the policies of the tools adopted, the moderators also reserve the right to use banning or blocking to prevent further action and to report the user to the platform managers and possibly to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.

 

Privacy

The processing of users' personal data within the social media platforms is regulated by the terms of service that each user accepts when registering on the platforms. The management of Open Innovation's social accounts is carried out in compliance with Law 196/03 on the protection of personal data. If a user transmits personal data with private messages through a social media platform, this data will be treated in compliance with the law.

If a user publishes their own or a third party's personal data, especially if sensitive, or other forms of invasion of privacy, e.g. with references to personal information or facts or other elements that could allow people to be identified, the content may be subject to moderation and if necessary removed without notice.