A few days ago I was looking for ideas to write a post, and yesterday, reading the blog of IAB Italy, I found something I could do for me. For the uninitiated, IAB Italy " is the Italian association that represents operators of interactive digital communication market in our country." The association's mission is to promote, in Italy, digital culture, as strategic resource at different levels, from the strictly economic to the political-institutional.
The blog reported the "Table of the digital economy", that is the result of an annual survey conducted by ' Economist Intelligence Unit . The study focuses its attention on the willingness on the part of countries 'digital', using networks to maximize the economic and social benefits. The 70 states in the ranking, in fact, reached acceptable levels of connectivity, so it makes little sense limitre attention to the accessibility of networks (although this remains a very topical issue at the European level, as well as in the U.S. of Obama).
data (reported here ) are not particularly rosy for our country, which ranked 27th, between Israel and Portugal , then a little above the mid-table. But if we look at the countries ahead of us, we see that Taiwan (12th), South Korea (13 °), Bermuda (22 °) and Estonia (25 °), to name only the most extreme cases, are better than us, while not enjoying the economic status Italy recognized, it is clear that at this point I think it is appropriate to ask questions.
I said that the research aims not so much the simple assessment of the levels of access, but also a measurement of the same quality of access, and therefore both were included parameters which have affected many countries they occupied high positions in the standings the past few years. In fact, Italy has only one person position, from scores (in tenths) of a 9.7 to 6.92. For the same reason, the Asian countries that have invested heavily in next-generation networks, have dramatically improved their position.
But why, to name a few, Taiwan and South Korea go so well (earning six positions each), the Nordic countries are all among the top six (Sweden and Denmark have exchanged the first two positions), while Italy limps much?
Meanwhile, as mentioned above for the Asian countries, the INVES in networks and telecommunications are essential not only to have a good level of accessibility, but a good quality of access, and quality primarily means the opportunity to experience everyday life through the network structures due to their excellence. But there is another aspect, characteristic especially of the Scandinavian countries, which is what online services: thanks to these services, Finland has risen to six.
But in order to implement the networks, as well as their applications in everyday life, institutional interventions that are still scarce in Italy. Sure, we CNIPA, which aims to promote the use of IT in Public Administration, of course, the Minister Brunetta has just launched the PEC (Certified Mail) and there are many other fine initiatives from time to time we read the newspapers. But there are only initiatives spot , lacking a planning framework that addresses the issue at the strategic level, it begins to consider the network as a resource, not as a tool. In short, the myopia of the Italian political class strikes again, and if there be reversed, we will continue to review how these discouraging results. Without public policies in support of IT and telecommunications, we can not expect adequate spreading use of digital services online by individuals and companies.
Finally a virtuous example that comes to us from the United States. The use of initiatives for Foursquare political education . Foursquare is a social network-based geolocation, which allows users to check-in atraverso your smartphone, telling the rest of the community "I'm here." A cable television, C-SPAN, has partnered with Foursqaure, so every time someone makes a check in a public place in Washington, C-SPAN provides information on politics, government and public administration. Education and Communication? Information or Relationship? One thing is certain, the U.S. is third in the standings, not twenty-seventh.
What do you think?
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