Digital Transformation of Public Administration in Europe

14 mag

A ROLE FOR PA THROUGH BIG DATA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EU VISION AND PRACTICES FROM A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE

SECOND HIGH LEVEL SEMINAR

14 MAY 2019 10.00 - 16.00

VENUE: Emilia-Romagna Region Rue Montoyer 21, Brussels

The rapid integration of digital technologies poses a number of challenges for national, regional and local governments. An important aspect of this transformation concerns citizens’ and businesses’ expectations about their interaction with governments. This requires the digital transformation of governments themselves to rise to this challenge. Public administrations need to change the way they work and organise themselves, ensuring they have the skills needed to use new digital tools, work collaboratively and engage with citizens and businesses.

The EU vision is to make Public Administration open, efficient, inclusive, borderless and user-friendly by providing a new digital environment for public services. With the eGovernment Action Plan, the European Commission considers that digital transformation of Public Administration is key for a successful Digital Single Market. The Single Market will be enhanced by common initiatives on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) that are on top of the EU agenda.

A EU common effort includes a consistent legal basis, policies and financing programmes mainly addressed to the public sector, research and infrastructures, big data, digital interoperability and innovative solutions for public administrations, with increased attention to Artificial Intelligence. Following last year Member States Declaration, a Coordinated Plan has also been adopted last December to pave the way for the future of a trustworthy AI.

In this context, the government of Emilia-Romagna has developed a robust strategy, together with national and regional research centers, to create a big data infrastructure, also with the aim to use data sets coming from PA, particularly from the health care and transport sectors. In the field of AI for Public Administration, it has identified a number of priorities.

Being closer to citizens, European regions can thus provide a significant contribution to make Public Administration systems more efficient, capable of generating public value and delivering better public services to local communities.

The aim of this second Seminar is to deepen the debate on the Digital transformation, by bringing together representatives from the European Commission, European regions and the private sector. It will also explore the possibility to establish an Open Government platform to address societal challenges, design and share common solutions.

Welcome: Lorenza Badiello, Head of Office, Delegation to the EU, Emilia-Romagna Region

Patrizio Bianchi, Minister for Europe, Research, University and Employment, Emilia-Romagna Region

Setting the context: Luukas Ilves, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, The Lisbon Council

Kick off Introduction: Francesco Raphael Frieri, CDO, Director-General for Resources, Europe, Innovation and Institutions, Emilia-Romagna Region

THE EU PERSPECTIVE

Going digital: the EU strategy for digital transformation

With the aim to improve PA efficiency, this session will explore the vision of the European Union as well as recent strategic developments and future impact of digital transformation

Daniele Dotto, HoU, Governance and Public Administration/Coordinator Inter services group for PA, Secretary general, European Commission

Norbert Sagstetter, Deputy HoU, e-Governement, DG CNECT, EU Commission - Video conference Irene Sardellitti, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence, DG CNECT, EU Commission

Andrea Mairate, HoU Impact of EU policies on national economies, DG ECFIN, European Commission

Emanuele Baldacci, Director, DG DIGIT, European Commission

Debate

Moderator: Richard Tuffs, Senior advisor - ERRIN Networking lunch

REGIONAL EXPERIENCES

TOWARDS AN OPEN PLATFORM ON DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR EUROPEAN REGIONS

This session will discuss main challenges and practices of digital trasformation of PA at regional level. The panel will bring regional experts together to address possible solutions also through an open platform

Daniel Marco, Director of SmartCatalunia, Catalunia

Raes Lieven, Program Manager R&D Smart Cities of Informatie Vlaanderen, Flanders

Lisa Lombardi, Expert, Agence du Numérique (AdN) of Digital Wallonia, Wallonia

Katerina Gonzales, Consultant eGovernment, ICT in the Ministry of Economics, Transport, Energy and Housing, Hessen

Gianluca Mazzini, Director General of Lepida, Emilia-Romagna

Bernard Giry, Digital innovation adviser of the President, Ile-de-France Region (tbc) Representative of Nouvelle Aquitaine (tbc)

Debate

Moderator: Lorenza Badiello, Head of Office, Delegation to the EU - Emilia-Romagna Region

THE ROLE OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR

DEVELOPING PUBLIC-PRIVATE COOPERATION AND SOLUTIONS

This session will bring key stakeholders from businesses, to share proposals to support the transition phase of Public Administration

Alessandro Cenderello, Managing Partner for EU Institutions, Ernst&Young

Giovanna Camorali, Business Development Executive, IBM Italy, Research Initiative Maurizio Mencarini, VP

Global Strategic Partnership, Expert System Spa, Italy

Catherine Berger, Principal Solution Specialist for Data & AI, EU Public sector, Microsoft

DEBATE

Moderator: Richard Tuffs, Senior Advisor at ERRIN Network

Final remarks: