One of the growing sectors of digital government is about open data as an extraordinary tool to detect main trends, de-structuring aggregated data, empowering citizens to understand how funds, actions, public decisions of decision-makers are implemented and eventually implemented. In Europe, the Public Open Data service infrastructure implements one of the key actions included in the Commission communication on Open Data of December 2011, and many are the actual platforms where open data are stored and easily accessible. However, there is a spread lack of culture/competencies in converting open data into useful service and a real support element for inclusive decision-making. This is particularly referred to all those people who have a leading role in local communities, namely: public decision-makers, cultural practitioners, non-profit leaders [from now on public makers]. Open data mining, services, manipulation can create operating platforms for citizens, entrepreneurs as well as public makers to adopt strategic decisions and make more our societies more transparent and inclusive. There is a ramping discussion about refugees, but much of the democratic debate about accountability has been left apart in favor of social emergences. At the moment, open data usage is very limited and fragmented in Europe with diverse examples of good practices, but also their total absence in any curricular activities. What is more, a comprehensive strategy about open data has proven in some countries to create bottom-up movements of citizens and public makers involved in peer-to-peer learning and investigation, creating concrete ICT tools to support public administrations, to understand how local project are run and developed and how money is actually spent. Public decision-makers, cultural practitioners, non-profit leaders [from now on public makers] have a great role to start strategic change, but they need professional training within an adult education sphere of up-skilling. The project Open data e-learning platform and digital tools for participatory decision making [OpenMakers] is an adult strategic partnership focused on digital active citizenship that aims to foster the usage of open data among public makers supporting their local work through innovative training in digital literacy combined with open data learning/usage. OpenMakers aims to broaden ICT competencies and skills of public admins, non-profit leaders, young professionals, project managers etc. creating sustainable and needs-focused learning patterns, enabling non-profits/public bodies/informal ICT groups to act at the local level through open data interpretation and management. Three are the most important results of the project: 1. An innovative, comprehensive and simplified step-by-step web-program (OER) on digital financing to run on a platform in order to guide through simplified graphics and monitoring/validation mechanisms in terms of open data learning and experimenting. (O1) 2. The creation of learning material for trainers (O2) and for target users (O3) and its conversion as an e-learning course that it is suitable for public makers. In particular, O2 material will strengthen the digital and open data knowledge of trainers, making them prepared in a field that it is generally left aside in terms of activities. A pilot testing phase will be defined through a triple pattern: - C1 training of trainers, targeting educational staff of each participating organization, in order to reach common outreach & standards. It will be connected to the methodology work of IO1 and to the practical outcomes of O2 & O3. - C2 training of learners: this training will focus on the final users and it will be crucial in order to pilot test learning methodologies, define local activities, etc. - Local activities referred to a blended-learning test of O3 material throughout the e-learning platform (O4), putting together trained educators and users and multiplying the educational effects. The overall methodology is inspired by the living lab approach, so that the actual learning is connected to concrete local actions about open data experimenting and implementation as democratic tools, promoting ad-hoc services. Substantially, introducing open data should make citizens and public makers change the way they normally think and interact, also in terms of changing the perspective of accountability and digital citizenship.