Security, digital inclusion and network enhancement in the Public Administration. The minister for technological innovation and digital transition, Vittorio Colao, opening the second day of the 66th Administrative Studies Conference in Varenna (Lecco), entitled “Ecological transition, digital innovation and social inclusion: the realization of the Next Generation Eu, addresses the issue by examining various issues. “One in 5 Italians has never connected to the internet. These are data that we are verifying,” says the minister. And then he added: “We have concluded a consultation on how to implement a plan to bring the connectivity at one Gigabit per second to everyone in Italy. We plan to proceed in forced gear, at a very high pace. We want to start the works by 2022 and in the first part of 2022 to conclude the assignment tenders “. Explaining that” we want to arrive for first in 2026 to be one of the most wired and connected countries in Europe. “Which then opens up to the issue of security.” In digital, security is the first objective in the first six months of the year, between large and small, there have been 3 million and six hundred thousand cyber attacks, including the one known to the Lazio Region ».
This was stated by the minister for technological innovation and digital transition, Vittorio Colao, opening the second day of the 66th Administrative Studies Conference in Varenna (Lecco), entitled “Ecological transition, digital innovation and social inclusion: realization of the Next Generation Eu “. He then explained: “The first thing then was the creation of the cyber-security agency, which must become the first landing point for everyone, for the public administration and for private individuals, to guarantee the security of data and infrastructures and the proper functioning of the public administration. The second thing is the creation of the national strategic pole to offer incloud solutions, therefore modern and efficient for all public PAs: the policy was published last week and a regulation will be made. We expect to have proposals for a public-private collaboration shortly and to submit the tender by the end of the year and award it in 2022 ».
On digital and public administration
«In digitization, even in the Public Administration, it is not enough to attack the digital word. There is an opportunity for lasting transformation for the PA that we see with technology ». And this, the minister underlined, thanks to the investments of the PNRR, “redesigning the native digital standards, therefore not trying to rewrite simply for applications or mobile phones, but by changing and simplifying”. And he pointed out: «This does not mean, however – Colao specified – having fewer controls, on the contrary, the more the data is natively generated, the more expert applications can guarantee the control bodies to go and verify that citizens are behaving well. But we have to overturn the paradigm: we need to simplify and then strengthen the control information system ».