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kometoday at 9:11 AM1 replyview on HN

Italians stay winning as usual... :-)

But for real, Italian public administration digitalization isn’t as bad as people think when compared to other big countries. SPID (an electronic identity system, now deprecated) was years ahead of many other European countries (and easily, the US), and PEC (a certified email standard for official communications established in 2005, that can be used with standard email clients) is still more advanced than the often more complicated and closed systems used in many other places. The Italian standard also deeply influenced the EU standard: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3560107.3560256


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lccerinatoday at 11:58 AM

It's almost as if putting competent people in the right place and with the right budget is the best way to achieve government/public-funded results...