Calenda: a project that the capital needs
Calenda also welcomed Virginia Raggi’s idea: “We are here – he said – to give institutional support to an important project that Rome needs”. On the entrepreneurial front, the president of Unindustria, Angelo Camilli, enthusiastically welcomed the initiative that yields the sharing of a prestigious goal by the candidates for mayors which demonstrates a high sense of the institutions.
The ambassador on the front line in the match with Bie
Leading the political-diplomatic battle with the BIE for the candidacy of Rome since January is the ambassador Giuseppe Scognamiglio who manages relations with large national and international investors to attract investments to Rome. In this capacity, Scognamiglio has focused on three opportunities in the decade: the PNRR, the Jubilee of 2025 and the Universal Expo 2030.
Two meetings with companies already
Two meetings have already been held with companies, the first with 120 managers and entrepreneurs at the Auditorium on 25 May and the second on 15 June with an operational nucleus of 40 companies and the third sector, with which Scognamiglio is carrying out projects of development that “will allow us to reach 2025 and 2030 not suddenly but by developing a gradual and coherent planning, through a virtuous and constant public-private synergy”.
The strengths of the candidacy
The goal is to bring Rome among the top 10 smart cities in the world by leveraging the already known characteristics of the capital of Italy: a horizontal, green city that must organize itself to attract human capital and not just tourists. In fact, it would be an event that would put Rome at the center of the world, for a year, a showcase of innovation and modernity in the management of articulated communities, which must develop research, business, quality of life. A challenge that must be removed from the political controversy: hence the choice to entrust its management to a technician with important backgrounds in diplomacy and finance. A challenge that begins under this administration and will have to develop through two successive administrations. Competition with other large countries (Russia, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea) can only be managed by an entire compact country, government, region, municipality, business system and third sector.