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Dal 1° gennaio 2024 diventa operativa l'incorporazione di SOSE in Sogei, come previsto dalla legge n.112 del 2023 che ha disposto la fusione della società.

A tal fine tutte le comunicazioni Sose si trovano sul sito Sogei www.sogei.it

 

Special report on ForumPA #spazioMEF

The ForumPA2020 autumn edition is dedicated to innovation processes in Public Administration and their impact on digital resilience. New digital technologies outline a roadmap to face the pandemic crisis affecting the hemisphere.

Within ForumPA, #SpazioMEF is the daily program by the Ministry of Economy and Finance in collaboration with SOSE. During the #SpazioMEF digital talks, some companies controlled by MEF described their resilience and tried to answer the many uncertainties of these months concretely.

 

The first talk in #SpazioMEF on the ForumPA opening day focused on Gender sensitive procurement: experimentation aiming to combine digital evolution profiles and goals based on existing infrastructures, processes with reward, and support goals preserving gender equality. The PA plays a crucial role in the country's relaunch, promoting greater efficiency in the digital transition, supporting business operators, and closing structural and territorial gaps with particular attention to gender.

On 5th November, the digital talk of SOSE addressed change as the new normal, analyzing scenarios, keywords, and trends in a public and private dialogue. SOSE started the debate on Digital Transformation in the July edition and now describes the evolution process between resilience and innovation, which has proved essential to guarantee PA’s and enterprises’ operational continuity, a dynamic element with always new and complicated challenges. Emanuele Schirru, Chief Information Officer in SOSE, discussed with Maria Grazia Bizzarri - People Development, Reward, and Transformation Director - Nexi and Mariano Corso of Politecnico di Milano, advisor for years of the PA and enterprises in their digital innovation processes.

 

The two talks scheduled for the fourth day were conducted by Direzione Studi e Ricerche Economico-fiscali of the Finance Department and by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato. In the first talk, the Direzione Studi e Ricerche economico-fiscali of the Finance Department presented its projects and the analytical tools utilized to study how the measures adopted to face the epidemiological emergency affect income distribution, inequality, and enterprises’ behaviors. In the second talk, the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato explained the significant advantages in simplification and security provided to citizens by the electronic identity card, tangible response to PA’s modernization. The works of the first day were conducted by the Department of General Administration, Personnel and Services of MEF.

 

On the second and third days, the State General Accounting Department (Italian acronym RGS) presented the new RGS web portal based on innovative user experience methodologies. It provides a unique access point to the Department's services and data for its institutional stakeholders. During the conference, RGS also shared digital innovation projects and the new RGS systems realized with flexible and "natively" digital tools and methodologies.

 

The debate of ideas

 

Forum PA and all participants of this autumn edition highlighted the role of digital transformation in supporting the country's recovery strategy. The Recovery Plan includes Digitalization and innovation, and it is clear to everyone that it is necessary to lay the foundations for innovative policies aiming at a sustainable economy.

The Green New Deal was one of the most significant events within ForumPa2020 Restart Italia and represented the tangible project of the ongoing change. The EU aims to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. However, reaching this target will require policies supporting sustainable production choices, a PA providing qualified responses, and territories able to play a role as protagonist and citizens making sustainable choices.

Studies, research and numbers

 

The Federculture report outlines a sector to redesign.

Federculture published "Impresa Cultura" the 16th Annual Report "Dal tempo della cura a quello del rilancio," which reports the crisis's overall impact and analyses the Italian policies and cultural trends in the last 20 years. The report describes the different effects of the virus and lockdown on culture, providing proposals for the future. The mandatory closures due to the first lockdown caused significant losses. Over 70% of cultural bodies estimated a drop in revenues exceeding 40%, but 13% expect a loss of over 60%. 

 

Istat: the decrease in labor and capital productivity in 2019.

In 2019, the value-added in volume of sectors producing goods and market services remained unmodified. Labor productivity (value-added per worked hour) decreased by 0,4%, Capital productivity (ratio between value added and capital input) by 0,8%. 

 

Istat report on the Italian economy.

In the past months, the international framework has been characterized by a strong recovery of production and trade.

The manufacturing industry registered a significant growth, and in August, Italian exports continued to grow towards both EU countries and non-EU countries.

However, the recent increase of contagions in many countries and the containment measures might worsen the global outlook, at least in the short term. 

 

Retail trade: Istat estimate.

In September 2020, estimates for retail trade decreased by 0.8% in value by 0.4% in volume. Sales of non-food products registered a decrease (-1,3% in value and -0,7% in volume), while sales of food products remained stable (unvaried in value and slightly increased + 0,1% in volume).

The voice of stakeholders

 

OsservaItalia 2020: from CERVED Report a focus on Covid impact.

The 2020 Cerved Report provides a snapshot of resilient sectors and those that could catch real opportunities from the pandemic, including accurate information on SMEs’ turnovers. The Report estimates a decrease of 11% and 16,3% in case of other lockdowns. The study considers all private enterprises and estimates that 1,4 million jobs will get lost by the end of 2021 with a reduction of 47 billion in the capital “if no prospect for relaunching the country emerges without the current support measures.“ New lockdowns would make unemployed people increase to 1.9 million with a 68 billion loss of capital. 

 

Mediobanca: the focus on the leading Italian companies.

Mediobanca Research Department published a survey on 1.049 groups and 2.400 individual companies operating in the industry, commerce, finance, leasing, factoring, banking, insurance sectors. The data refer to the 2018 and 2019 financial year. The manufacturing companies are expected to close 2020 with a decrease of 11,1% in sales. The estimates vary based on the sectors as some suffered more than others the measure adopted to control the pandemic: textile (-26,7%), apparel (-25,2%), transport (-21,7%), metalworking (-17,7%), household and personal goods (-14,2%).

The milling industry and pasta factories registered less alarming, although high, numbers with a decrease of 4,4%, so the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry with a 2,6% decrease. Foods industry close with an increase of 5,3%. 

 

Istat: a measure of the Italian sentiment on the economy based on twitter data.

Istat updates the Social Mood on Economy Index, an experimental index first released in October 2018. The index provides daily measures of the Italian sentiment on the economy. These measures are derived from samples of public tweets in Italian captured in real-time. The seasonal component of the series shows positive peaks in December and in the period late March early April and a negative peak in the summer months.

The world of MEF

 

Tax revenues: in the first nine months tax revenues amount to 303,4 billion.

In the period January-September 2020, tax revenues based on legal competence criteria amounted to 303,498 million euro with a decrease of 21,327 million euro compared to the same period of the preceding year (-6,6%).