The additional fiscal package, launched in summer 2011 by the Italian Government, has paved the way for the constitution of 'unions of municipalities' all over the country. These concern small towns with a population between 1.000 and 5.000 inhabitants, which will progressively pool together administrative and management functions allowing for local authorities to play a new role in the process of administrative decentralization.
The theme was at the center of the conference on 'Unions of municipalities' on 26 October, 2001 held in Rome at the Senate, sponsored and organized by the Foundation Field, the in-house agency of the Calabria Region. INNOVA S.p.A. signed an agreement on this occasion with the FIELD Foundation to disseminate exploitation results and best practices of the European funded project CEMSDI (FP7-ICT-PSP Programme) to the small municipalities of the Calabria Region that Innova is coordinating.
The CEMSDI project (Civil-servant Empowerment for Multi Media Service Delivery ICT-enabled) is a project designed to empower the European public sector through a strong capacity building initiative for civil servants and other practitioners, especially at a local level, where most public services are provided. The aim is to create a validated learning environment where civil servants and other practitioners can develop their potential to use ICT to enable an improvement in public services for everybody.
INNOVA sees in these unions of municipalities the opportunity to create real smart cities, centers of innovation at the service of citizens, businesses and local governments.
For more information read the Key4Biz web report on the event (in Italian) and visit the CEMSDI website.
