ITALY
Italy is a large Mediterranean country, with a development of e-government just above EU
average and quite low expenditure in research.
It has no dedicated research programmes on e-government at the national level, but some
interesting cases at the regional level. Also, national programme include priorities potentially
relevant for e-government.
List of relevant programmes
DED programmes
 Regione Emilia-Romagna, ICT strategy, measure 1.1
EXPL programmes
 Regione Friuli-Venezia Giulia Law on Innovation, scientific research and technological
development includes public administration as target sectors
 Province of Trento e-government plan supports project entailing research
 Regione Toscana Information Society policy includes the establishment of three R&D
centres on Open Source, Digital TV and interoperability.
POT programmes
 National Research Programme 2005-2007 includes ICT priority potentially relevant for egovernment.
Description of programme
Name
Regione Emilia-Romagna, ICT strategy, measure 1.1
Type of programme
DED
Institutional setting
Part of IS strategy , which is mainly dedicated to public services,
includes research on multi-channel delivery of services, city
management, e-learning, multimedia for culture and health, ebusiness, social care.
Organisation and people in charge
Regione Emilia-Romagna –Direzione generale Organizzazione,
personale, sistemi informativi e telematica
Sandra Lotti
Period
2003-2006
Budget
8,5 M€ form regional gov
Total 21,5 M€
Number of projects/grants (of 10
which e-gov, if possible)
Thematic priorities
Mobile services in eGovernment; User interaction; eGovernment
in Administrations
Type of measures, type of research, Open calls, Applied research and development. Mostly
type of discipline
technological.
Selection for assigning funds?
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Who can apply
University, private companies and public body.
Website
http://www.regionedigitale.net/wcm/erdigitale/pagine/res.htm
Other: procurement, institutional funding, research included in e-gov
projects
Information not available.
Centres/networks of excellence
Name
Centre for Competence on e-gov – Emilia-Romagna Regional Authority
Contact
eGov work
Sandra Lotti – Vice-president secretariat and Finance Minister.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +39 0516397908
Socio-economic analysis and benchmarking of e-government development
Specific theme
eGovernment in Administrations
Name
Centre for the multimedia industrial district, Bologna
Contact
The centre is coordinated by ASTER S.p.a. A Regional Agency but every
single project has a coordinator:
INSEBALA - Prof. Gianluca Mazzini, CNIT – Ferrara, Tel: +390532974841, email: [email protected];
SUMMIT - Ing. Kussai Shahin, ASTER S.p.a. Regional Agency, Tel:
+390516398099, e-mail: [email protected];
SWIMM - Prof. Maurelio Boari, Electronics, Computer sciences and Systems
– DEIS - Bologna University, Tel: +390512093043, e-mail:
[email protected].
Mobile and ubiquitous services for PA employees.
eGov work
Coordination, development and management of INSEBALA, SUMMIT,
SWIMM.
Centre for the development of LEPIDA the PA's telematic network,
Name
Bologna
The centre is coordinated by ASTER S.p.a. A Regional Agency but every
Contact
single project has a coordinator:
● ALMA-TWO - Andrea Reggiani, Bologna University, Tel: +390512094963,
e-mail: [email protected];
● DIMOTER - Stefano Amici, CERMET Scrl, e-mail: [email protected]
● GEA - Giovanni Romeo, EUROPEAN GENETICS FOUNDATION, Tel:
+39051306474, e-mail: [email protected];
● I-CARE - Roberto Camporesi, CEDAF, Tel: +39543727011, e-mail:
[email protected];
● LAICA - Franco Sacerdotti, CERTHIDEA Srl, e-mail:
[email protected];
E-learning methodology, development and validation of an integrated socialeGov work
health services system, ambient intelligence, Knowledge Management.
Coordination, development and management of ALMA-TWO, DIMOTER,
Specific theme
GEA, I-CARE, LAICA.
Marconi Wireless, Bologna
Name
Sergio Bonora, Laboratori Guglielmo Marconi SpA, Tel: +390516781911, eContact
mail: [email protected].
Identify, develop, deploy (or personalize) and test innovative wireless
eGov work
applications in health, civil protection, public transportation and security.
Wireless applications
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Contact
OITOS – Observatory for open source innovation and technological
transfer, Bologna
Stefano Torelli, CISE, e-mail: [email protected]
eGov work
Analisys, evaluation and survey on open source software
Specific theme
Open source software
Name
Insiel S.p.a –R&D Center Padriciano (ICT company owned by the Regional
Authority of Friuli Venezia Giulia)
Contact
dott. Fulvio Sbroiavacca , Director
http://www.area.trieste.it/opencms/opencms/area/it/phonebook/i
nsediati_detail.html?id=2032
eGov work
Specific theme
Located in the Science Park Area of Trieste it undertakes R&D activities on various
ICT themes in support of the development of web solutions for front-end and back
office systems by Insiel in the domains of E-Government e Knowledge Management,
di Data Warehousing e E-Work. It is the founder of WfMC (Workflow Management
Coalition.
Services to citizens and businesses
Name
LIDO Laboratory at DIST Genoa University
Contact
Prof Antonio Boccalatte , Director of the Lab
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +39 0103532812
Modelling at different level (technical, organisatione etc.) of regional policies for
information society and e-government development. Application of software design
and development methodologies based on mobile agents to e-government issues
(interoperability and mobility). Development of software agents for e-procurement
systems in public administrations.
eGovernment interoperability
Name
eGov work
Specific theme
Specific theme
Institute for studies on archives and libraries Urbino University (Istituto di studi
per i beni archivistici e librari),
Prof. Maria Guercio, Director
Email: [email protected]
phone :+39 0722 2940
Requirements for the modelling of electronic document management (EU project
Moreq), digital documents conservation (EU projects ERPANET, CASPAR e DELOS)
Electronic document
Name
UEG - UNICAM e-Gov Research Group, Camerino University
Contact
Prof. Flavio Corradini, Computer Science Dept.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +39 0737 402564
Research and technical assistance projects related with e-government implementation
initiatives mostly for the Marche Regional Authority and Municipal Authorities, often
jointly with ICT companies, on: computer networks (broadband transmission and
secutiry aspects); egov services delivery (administrative procedures modelling, einclusion issues, interoperability, one-stop services; innovation in office automation
and legacy systems.
Organisational innovation and knowledge management
Networked - knowledge-based organisations
eGovernment Interoperability
Secure e-government and Identity Management in eGovernment
Mobile services in eGovernment
eDemocracy
Services to Citizens and Businesses
Name
Contact
eGov work
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Contact
eGov work
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Name
Contact
eGov work
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Name
Contact
eGov work
Specific theme
DIIGA – UNIVPM, Dept. Computer science, Management and Automatics Dept. Marche Politechnics University (Ancona)
Primo Zingaretti, researcher
phone: 0712204899
Email: [email protected]
R&D on mobile cross platform (palm and smart phones) applications to access egov
services. Focus on interface design and user interaction. Design and test of Java
(J2ME) and Macromedia Flash Lite prototypes for catering, population registry and
voting lists for Fermo Municipality.
Mobile services in eGovernment
User interaction
Services to Citizens and Businesses
Open source in eGovernment
ITC-irst, Center for Scientific and Technological Research (ITC-irst), Trento
Adolfo Villafiorita - [email protected]
Paolo Traverso (inter-regional ICAR project)
Francesco Ricci, nell'ambito dell'eTourism (ITALY.IT project - tourism portal managed
by Regional administrations)
ITC-irst is a public research center of the Autonomous Province of Trento founded in
1976. The center has five divisions: Automated Reasoning Systems (SRA), Interactive
Sensory Systems (SSI), Cognitive and Communication Technologies (TCC), Physics
Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces (FCS), Microsystems (MIS).
ITC-irst has been assigned, through a specific convention by the Province, the role of
actuator of telematics projects planned by the Provincial Authority, specifically in the
e-government domain, and of coordinator of information society activities.
eGovernment in administrations
eGovernment Interoperability
University of Trento
Marco Pistore - Dept. of Computer and Communication Technology (DIT),
[email protected]
Carlo Buzzi, Dept. Of Social Research
Pistore – interoperability (inter-regional ICAR project)
Buzzi – electronic vote
eGovernment Interoperability
eDemocracy
Name
Competence Center on Re-use - Pisa University
Contact
Specific theme
Prof. Vincenzo Ambriola – Dept. Computer Science
email [email protected]
phone :+39 050 2212751
Reference center at regional level for the design and re-use of egov solutions by local
administrations. It
Open source in e-gov
Name
Competence Center on digital terrestrial television
Contact
Giancarlo Galardi – Regione Toscana, Director General for Organisation and IS,
Florence
email: [email protected]
phone: +39 055 4384580
Established in 2004, jointly with the Siena and the Florence Universities, and CSP
from Turin, it develops and tests technologically advanced MHP applications for DTT
services, based on hardware and software installed at TIX (Tuscany Internet
Exchange) of the Regional Telematic Network.
Services to Administrations, Citizens and Businesses
eGov work
eGov work
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Name
Competence Center on Compliance
Contact
Giancarlo Galardi – Regione Toscana, Director General for Organisation and IS,
Florence
email: [email protected]
phone: +39 055 4384580
Jointly established by local authorities (Tuscany Region, Municipalities of Florence,
Lucca, Pisa, Circondario Empolese Valdelsa) and Universities (Florence, Pisa Siena)
it is a multidisciplinary center for research and high level training on interoperability
issues.
eGov work
Specific theme
eGovernment Interoperability
Name
CERSI - Research Centre on Information Systems Luiss "Guido Carli" University
Contact
Alessandro D'Atri
Office: Room 305, Via Oreste Tommasini, 1, I-00162 Roma
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: +39 06-86506-1 or -792 or -755 or -778
Fax: +39 06-86506-506
http://www.cersi.it/
EComItaly (http://cersi.luiss.it/ecomitaly.htm)
Health Web Quality Evaluation (http://cersi.luiss.it/webquality.htm)
Knowledge Implementation and Management in Public Administrations (KIMPA)
e-commerce, e-learning, e-government, IS security, knowledge management, telemedicine
LEKS - Laboratory for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems, at IASI-CNR (Istituto
di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)
Michele Missikoff
Office Viale Manzoni, 30 - 00185 Roma - Italy
Phone +39 06 7716422
Fax +39 06 7716461
E-mail [email protected]
Participation in several EU funded projects: IP ATHENA: Integrated Project
(http://www.athena-ip.org/index.php) ; NoE INTEROP (http://interop.aquitainevalley.fr/): Network of Excellence; Web Learning: National Research Project (funded
by MIUR, the Italian Ministry of Research, http://www.web-learning.org/), eGOV:
National Research Project (funded by MIUR, the Italian Ministry of Research)
concerning the definition of a methodology and the realization of a prototype able to
support semantic interoperability among administrative processes
eLearning; Groupware and cooperation technologies; Interoperability; Knowledge
Management systems; knowledge Representation methods; Ontology Representation
and Management; Web-Services; e-commerce;
University of Naples "L'Orientale"- Department of Social Science -
eGov work
Specific theme
Name
Contact
eGov work
Specific theme
Name
http://www.unior.it/
Contact
eGov work
Specific theme
Alfonso Ma succi
Phone +39 081- 6909441
Online public services and telematic user. Towards a new citizenship
(http://www.ricercaitaliana.it/prin/dettaglio_prin_en-2005124401.htm); Information
Technology and Public Administration. The reform of the administration and citizens’ rights; egovernment and administrative telecooperation
public services, citizens’ rights, administrative cooperation
References
www.portal.cistrana.org
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