A mass that exceeds abundantly one million paper documents to be digitized to make the archive of the Municipality of Padua modern and accessible even remotely. An efficient public administration also passes from the effort to abandon paper folders, meticulously cataloged to avoid the risk of not finding the information, and to move to a digital archive in which anyone can remotely find the documents they are looking for. This is also an infrastructure, not a material one, which however is essential to our country. “The need for this project arose during a meeting between institutions and professionals in the area that was held last December to understand precisely what were the most urgent actions that the administration should have taken to innovate its services”, he explains. Carlo Pasqualetto, mayor’s delegate for innovation. Thus it emerged that due to the number of requests for information for the 110% sent to the private building office of the Municipality of Padua, the response times have exploded and have become very long, even three months. A meeting was then promoted with the mayor of Padua, Sergio Giordani, and with the councilor for private construction, Antonio Bressa, to start the digitization of the archive thanks to an initial allocation of 1.2 million. The purpose is to allow, for example, through a single online platform, the download of building practices and cadastral data so that everyone can do it independently. This is only a first phase: in total the Municipality wants to invest 7 million to eliminate paper bureaucracy. A process that takes two years to complete, while «the first results on the digitization of archives should be seen in 12 months», Pasqualetto hopes.
“We are satisfied with the decision of the Municipality – says Lorenzo Todeschini, president of the notaries of Padua -, with our colleagues from other professions, we had called for such an intervention to modernize the archives, the need for which was made more evident precisely by the pandemic crisis, but which, however, we considered a non-extendable choice for an efficient administration that wanted to provide adequate services to citizens ”.