Last Saturday, in representation of the ' Institute for Policy Innovation , I participated in " Opportunity Lost? ", event organized by the indefatigable Flavia Marzano in Pisa where he discussed the state of innovation in our country.
My turn came, I opened my brief remarks with a question: is it really useful that dozens of organizations come together around a table to talk about innovation and formulate proposals to be put to institutions? Internet and new technologies are perhaps not imposed without the need for all this?
The question was obviously provocative: only countries that have adopted wise policies have failed to fully exploit the benefits that innovation brings. The technologies are not enough: for years I hear that the Internet will bring more rights in China, while in reality policies on censorship and oppression have reduced almost completely the range of disruptive web. Just as there may be a coincidence that Google was born in the USA and not in Italy (a book by Franco Tato a few years ago it was called - in fact - "Why is not the Puglia California").
Italy is a country in which, so far, too often, innovation has been an integral part - at times and sometimes Queen Cinderella - election commercials, promotional or rather the object of measures approved in a logic of emergency.
If you want to seize the enormous opportunities that innovation offers the national economy not only from a perspective of economic development but also in a perspective of cultural growth and increase the active participation of citizens in the political life of the country must begin to draw the lines of a policy innovation serious, mature and shared.
In this perspective, the Institute for Policy Innovation has developed a series of proposals that have uploaded to wiki platform and you can find here . This is a published version 1.0 to open a debate on these issues and begin to innovate the processes of decision taking advantage of new technologies.
All those who care about the fate of innovation in Italy can, today, modify, integrate it and criticizing it. The results will arrive which will then be sent to public and private decision makers, and presented at a national conference on innovation policy to be held in the coming months.
I agree.
Technology is just a tool, powerful yes, but not an end in itself.
If the Puglia is not California is mainly because it is inhabited by Puglia (or by Italians) and not from California.
That is to say that the majority of the population consists of people who:
- Studied in order to win the "piece of paper", maybe useful to find the "place";
- Received a teaching done by people demotivated, often co-opted by virtue of blood or bed and less skilled;
- Believe / know that their personal success goes from channels other than the jurisdiction;
- Have a credit system that does not support the company, but takes on a role largely parasitic;
- Are aware of moving into a legal system that does not guarantee legal certainty even from afar;
and then
ineffectiveness of the PA
corruption of the ruling classes
unsustainable fiscal burden
....
you could go on, but it would be useless. It all boils down to the sad consideration that we are afflicted by an endemic lack of seriousness. An old word which expresses everything we need to make the best of Puglia California. Technology included.
[...] Those who were present in Pisa already know (for all others I have written a post on my blog), the Institute for Policy Innovation has uploaded to a wiki platform [...]