AgID, the Three-Year Plan for IT in the PA 2024-26 has been published: among the new features the first indications on artificial intelligence

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The Agency for Digital Italy (AGID) has published the three-year plan for IT in public administration 2024-2026, the strategic planning document for the PA. In the Plan, PA and businesses find the information and actions to be implemented to contribute to the development of the country’s digital maturity in the next three years.

The new edition of the Plan is characterized by greater attention to governance aspects and an approach strongly oriented towards digital services, which must be interoperable, increasingly easier to use for citizens and businesses and more accessible.

In particular, the strategy is expanded and updated, through the updating of the guiding principles, the contents are aligned with the objectives of the PNRR and greater attention is paid to the topic of monitoring, with the revision of the indicators, to make them increasingly significant with respect to their impact.

Furthermore, for the first time, the Plan addresses the topic of Artificial Intelligence, providing indications and general principles that must be adopted by administrations and declined during the application phase, taking into consideration the rapidly evolving scenario.

Another important novelty is the introduction of an entire section that contains various operational tools that administrations can take as reference as support models, examples of good practices or checklists to plan their interventions.

They have been included in the Operational Plan actions dedicated to increasing ICT specialistsaimed at encouraging access to scientific-technological disciplines and professions, with particular attention to ICT degree courses and the use of ICT resources in the public and private sector and also to some specific targets at risk of social exclusion and expulsion from labor market, as in the case of the actions of the Digital Republic Fund.

These actions – we read – are in line with those proposed by the ICT trade associations: i) the strengthening of scientific high schools and ITIS with a technological focus, increasing the number of classes by 50% compared to the current programming, ii) theincrease in the number of Higher Technological Institutes (ITS)iii) the monitoring of continuation of students in post-diploma paths and in the world of workrewarding high schools and teachers whose rate of young people NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) in the 12 months following graduation is lower than a pre-established percentage, iv) the creation of a fund for the development of collaborative training programs with companies, v) rapid adaptation of programs to market demands vi) la reduction of the gap in technological skills among teachers.

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