Fondazione Italia Digitale is born, driven by culture and policy

Digital in the context of an Italy that is restarting. 360-degree digital is conjugated between polity and policy. The Italian Digital Foundation (Fid), the first Italian dedicated to digital culture, starts from these first strategic points. The Fid was officially presented this morning during the “Popular digital – Culture and policy for Italy that starts again” event which was held live on the Foundation’s social channels – Facebook and LinkedIn – and with a pool of live speakers from Utopia Studios in Rome. Fid was baptized by the president Francesco Di Costanzo (also president of Pa Social), and by Francesco Giorgino, member of the Scientific Committee of Fid and Director of the Master in Political and Institutional Communication and Marketing of the Luiss School of Government. Fid “is a place that was also created to support the discussion and development of public and private digital policies, inserted in the context of Italy that is starting again” underlined Di Costanzo and Giorgino who presented the new innovative reality to an important institutional parterre . In fact, the minister for technological innovation and digital transition, Vittorio Colao, the minister of education, Patrizio Bianchi, the undersecretary for technological innovation and digital transition, Assuntela Messina, the undersecretary for Presidency of the Council with responsibility for European affairs, Enzo Amendola, and the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economic Development, Anna Ascani. “Unfortunately it took a pandemic but we managed to bring digital to the front page of the news” observed the president of Fid, Francesco Di Costanzo. “There is a revolution in progress, we must not fear it but govern it” Di Costanzo urged. The objective of the Fid, “and also the ambition and commitment on the part of all of us”, explained the president of the newly founded Italia Digitale Foundation, is to “represent a point of reference with the institutions, with individuals with many professionals who deal with it and above all with citizens “to be able to” accompany this turning point “of the digital transformation of the country. Di Costanzo also recalled how “the PNRR gives us so many resources” for digital “resources that, however, must be conquered with projects”. The number one of Fid also indicated that “Fondazione Italia Digitale makes itself available to individuals and institutions to start a mature digital culture”. Francesco Giorgino, well-known face of Rai journalism and member of the Scientific Committee of the Italia Digitale Foundation, clarified that “the word on which we must focus our attention is precisely ‘transformation'”. Digital, then observed the Director of the Master in Political and Institutional Marketing and Communication of the Luiss School of Government, “is a pervasive ‘invention’ in the cultural, political, social and economic but also anthropological fields: the digital man is different from ‘analog man “. Now, added Giorgino, “we must transform our digital skills into digital culture” and “only in this way can we reduce our digital divide” which sees Italy at the bottom of the European rankings. Speaking at the morning of work, the Minister of Technological Innovation and the Digital Transition, Vittorio Colao, noted that “we all know that there is no true innovation without skills” and “the work we have to do is to focus on enhancement of human capital “. Education Minister Patrizio Bianchi noted that the post-pandemic “is the right time to resume the discussion on digital and to see what it is offering us”. Bianchi highlighted that our life today is permeated by the possibilities that digital is offering us “. For the Undersecretary for technological innovation and digital transition, Assuntela Messina, moreover,” we know well that we are experiencing a moment of profound change : “accompanied by the” challenges of climate change and technological challenges “and all this calls for” new forms of responsibility and decisions. “In this framework, Messina noted,” the digital transition represents one of the most important challenges “. Fondazione Italia Digitale was also attended by the Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council with responsibility for European Affairs, Enzo Amendola, who noted that “digital connections will change the way we produce, work and stay together”. “The Fondazione Italia Digitale is born and above all, a way of interpreting the digital revolution in the most popular sense possible arises “, observed Amendola underlines he said that the title of the event ‘Popular digital – Culture and policy for Italy that starts again – “is already a manifesto”. Furthermore, according to the Undersecretary for Economic Development, Anna Ascani, she pointed out that digital “is one of the most important issues we face through the NRP and certainly one of the hot topics of this government’s action”. “We have all experienced – Ascani recalled – during the pandemic how important the country’s digital infrastructure is, how important is also an agile communication between the public administration and citizens”. After the institutional interventions, there was also the presentation of a research by the Fondazione Italia Digitale on the themes of digitization and the interaction between Public Administration and citizens by Livio Gigliuto, member of the Board of the Italia Digitale Foundation and director of the National Observatory. on digital communication and vice president of Istituto Piepoli. The works then expanded to talks with Sara Roversi, president of the Future Food Institute and president of the Scientific Committee of the Italia Digitale Foundation; Giorgio Ventre, professor at Federico II University, director of Apple Naples Developer Academy and coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the Italia Digitale Foundation; Carlo Albini, head of Innovability People and Organization of the Enel Group; Eleonora Faina, general manager of Anitec-Assinform; Giuseppe Colangelo, Jean Monnet Professor of Eu Innovation Policy and Associate Professor of Economic Law at the University of Basilicata.