Sunday, April 17, 2011

Hi-tech innovation and Italy do not live here most backward of Barbados and Oman

ROME - The World Economic Forum (WEF) ball Technology and Innovation in Italy and suppresses the government's policies. The report card is merciless in the latest report (435 pages) an independent international organization. It is the tenth year that the WEF Global Information Technology Report is a public and every time it getting worse for Italy in the ranking that analyzes 138 countries worldwide.

Now we're 51st, in countries such as India, Tunisia, Malaysia. We lost three positions last year. In 2006 we were 38th: steady collapse. This ranking is an opinion on the essence of an innovative country. The index of the WEF it analyzes their capacity to transform technology into benefits for the people's daily lives and the economy.

The more one is at the top of the league-dominated this year by Sweden and Singapore-all the more mean that progress has penetrated deeply into the economic structures and in society in that country, improving it. The WEF, to get to this view, consider several objective indicators (measured by independent organizations like the United Nations) and correlates them, ranging from the spread of internet and mobile phones, the quality of education to the state policies to promote innovation and technological development.

And it is precisely this aspect that Italy collects a groomed by the World Economic Forum. In the chapter in which he analyzes Europe, starting with the praises of France, Germany, but then notes "the other extreme, countries such as Greece and Italy." The WEF is common in Greece and Italy also advice: they should improve to progress preparatory factors (lower taxes and bureaucracy, more freedom of the press, among other things), to increase the adoption of new technologies and, above all, put IT and telecommunication services national policies.

Here is the severe criticism of the government. The Italian is considered to 113esimo place in the world for innovation and openness to 89esimo use of technology. Greece lags for both. "The Italian State invests much less than other Europeans to spread the culture of technology, among others.

But it was able to spend over a billion euro in digital terrestrial," notes Maurizio Decina, professor of communications networks at the Politecnico di Milan. Other countries gallop. Many of those are emerging as more ready and open to innovation. So the WEF puts Costa Rica among the cases excellent last year for investing in literacy and reduced barriers to trade in technological goods, among other things.

So this year has surpassed Italy in the standings for the first time. With us something is cooking, but we are still at the stage of ideas to break the deadlock. A group of teachers and experts behind the portal Agendadigitale. org, is gathering bipartisan bills to parliament. The Minister for Public Administration and Innovation, Renato Brunetta, said he was willing to examine them in the coming weeks.

Goal, create the first Italian Digital Agenda, which is a government program plan for technology development.

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