PRESS RELEASE
Digital innovation among the priorities of the new government
Whatever the new government, innovation policies must be one of its priorities as an essential prerequisite for promoting the revitalization of the country system. Among the many areas of innovation, the States General of Innovation believe that in this moment it is crucial to focus attention and the few resources available on digital innovation.
Digital innovation in Italy is often conceived as a limited, strictly technological area. A sector. Nothing more wrong. It is about the social and productive future of our country. It's about the quality of life for all of us. The innovative impact of communication and knowledge technologies cuts across all economic sectors and constitutes a fundamental competitive drive.
For this reason the Association States General of Innovation (www.statigeneralinnovazione.it) requests that the points on digital innovation policies be included in the programmatic priorities of the new government, a government that can promote a program of a few points capable of transposing the clear message of change that it has given the electorate.
Sui digital innovation issues, in particular, in the months of the electoral campaign, more points of sharing have emerged, which therefore can be one basis for the definition of a shared, concrete and change government program.
One of the main novelties of the electoral campaign was the initiative of the "Charter of Intent for Innovation”, promoted byStates General Association of Innovation and aimed at identifying a set of programmatic priorities on which to implement the commitment of the candidates in the next political and regional elections. A charter that has attracted the support of hundreds of citizens, administrators, businesses, associations and more than eighty candidates in the last elections. The start, finally, of a “community of innovative politicians”.
We ask that together with the fight against corruption and at measures for transparency in politics the points already shared on innovation policies (digital literacy, school, open government, electronic commerce and digital culture in companies, universal service broadband, reduction of barriers to entry to the telecommunications market, reform of the work model with explicit reference to the knowledge economy, open innovation, implementation network of the innovation supply chain, social innovation, innovation policies sensitive to differences starting from gender) are a fundamental part of the new government's plans and we call on innovative parliamentarians to support and engage in this fundamental battle.
