Empty tenders, lack of clarity on the timing, even less on the 2022 objectives. The digital PNRR, entrusted to the dicastery for Transition led by Vittorio Colao, starts uphill. The first race of the “Strategy for the ultra-broadband”, dedicated to the smaller islands, was unsuccessful. But it is not the only one. Even the “Maas4Italy – Mobility as a Service” call, which must redesign mobility in a sustainable and digital sense, has not found interested parties and has now been published again (the new deadline tomorrow). And to say that the first mission of the NRP, or “Digitization, innovation, competitiveness, culture”, can count on 49.86 billion euros, – of which 40.32 billion from the Recovery and Resilience Device and 8.74 billion from the Government Fund -, but they are currently at a standstill. The “correct communication between central and local authorities” is missing, as government sources explain upon request for anonymity. In other words, municipalities know they will receive the resources, but it is still unclear how they will be able to use them. Even more complicated and cumbersome, however, is the investment in “Strengthening the technological infrastructure and tools for collecting, processing, analyzing data and simulating”. An agreement was signed between the Ministry of Health and the Department of Digital Transition to regulate the legal relationships between the parties for the creation of the electronic health record, in particular regarding the “creation of a central repository, services and user interface. friendly, completion of document digitization “and that relating to the adoption and use of the” Electronic health record by the Regions “. Translated: you should already have access to your health record regardless of the region of origin. Too bad, for example, that communication between regions on the vaccine front is not yet easy.
Twelve calls are expected by the end of 2023, but the timing is still unclear. In addition to broadband, there is the front of the small municipalities. Which still ask, as remarked by the National Union of mountain communities and bodies, to be involved in the digital transition. Which, according to Marco Bussone, number one of Uncem, has not yet happened.
Education and health: the challenges of 2022, 20,000 institutions and hospitals online
In the next two years twelve calls will have to be launched, from minor villages to optical fiber, passing through the digitization of the public administration. By the end of January, it is up to “Connected school” (261 million euros) and “Connected health” (501.5 million), for which approximately 10 thousand schools and 12,300 public health facilities have been identified. But the tender regulations are still complicated, as explained by sources from the ministry, where they are also aiming to close in ten days. Responsibilities for implementation need to be clarified. In theory, centralized; in fact, on a territorial basis. But if the “little ones” do not receive instructions from the central administration, they can do little. And the risk is not spending resources well. It does not help that, in parallel, there is a plan by the Ministry of Labor to digitize processes and services.
The small municipalities remain in limbo, so the registry office does not start at home
The digital PNRR struggles to reach small towns. Minister Vittorio Colao, as written on the ministry’s website, “has also provided, in agreement with the offices of the Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese, a rule to allow citizens to register and manage their digital home online directly from the national registry of the resident population (Anpr), accessing with Spid and Cie ». The problem is that, as pointed out by the Anci, these communications are not always positive and inefficiencies remain on the agenda. Especially where the web is still latent and the urgency to improve connections is more pressing. As in the case of mountain areas. The Anci continues to prod Palazzo Chigi on the front of the adoption of the single items of expenditure of the NRP. For now with few concrete answers.
Hacker threat on the servers of the PA, a task force with the Bank of Italy
«We have 93-95% of the servers of the Public Administration that are not in cyber security conditions. We can’t go on like this, we need more secure clouds for citizens’ sensitive data ». Thus Vittorio Colao during the last Trento Economy Festival. Seven months later, the situation is still unfolding. By the end of the year, ministerial sources explain, the regulatory bases will have to be grounded to ensure the safety of public servers. But not only. The work on the single network will be completed. On this front, the links between Palazzo Chigi and the Bank of Italy’s task force on digital risks are constant. The next step is that of June, when we will take stock of the progress of the work to guarantee the security of the Italian web.