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The paper identifies a contradiction between data openness and economic value, possibly hiding a 'market failure' requiring a more active intervention from the public hand. Though the sheer quantity of data available for free usage is steadily increasing worldwide, its average quality usually stays well below the minimum threshold required for value creation. In contrast, there is now growing evidence that the use of data has enormous potential for the economy and society, including research and the progress of science. Unfortunately, useful datasets are usually locked in and when actually made accessible, suffer from the same limitations mentioned before. Maybe the time is ripe to undervalue the generalized disclosure of government data in favor of an appropriately incentivized and targeted creation of actionable bases of new IT applications. We present four cases touching upon the issues and potentials of service design, urban innovation, and data-related policies. We identify two possible ways of tackling the highlighted market failure: direct subsidies to government bodies or agencies engaged in disclosing their own datasets and keeping them clean and accessible over time or new regulations that establish more productive data ecosystems, rewarding knowledge creation rather than mere data ownership

There is evidence that the construction of immigrants' integration and inclusion in the hosting societies, as well as the recognition and management of cultural diversities, are more and more defined and implemented at the local level. There, municipal authorities and other local government bodies play a decisive role in building inclusion as well as exclusion patterns by simply facilitating or making more complex what Isin and Nielsen (2008) call "acts of citizenship", which include both the outcomes of discretionary decisions and compliance with implementations of mandatory national or supranational administrative procedures. Consequently, immigrants' integration is challenged by both the diffuse, albeit wrong, feeling that immigrants have about themselves as "illegal citizens". This acts as an impediment to a broader and fuller exercise of their acknowledged and endorsed rights, fueled by the complexities of international, national and local norms that differentiate its mechanisms across the countries. This paper starts with an introduction presenting the issue of existing services accessibility for immigrants. In the second part, the authors introduce the "Open4citizens" Horizon2020 project and the work carried out for a hackathon event dedicated to the ideation and prototyping of an ICT based solution devoted to facilitate the request for family reunification in Milan. Finally, the article describes "MyJourney", the solution awarded during the hackathon, which was finalized throughout a collaborative work among the developers, the Municipality and the Prefecture of Milan.