Background
The Location Interoperability Framework Observatory (LIFO) monitors the implementation of location interoperability good practices in European public administrations, based on the level of adoption of recommendations in the EULF Blueprint.
The overview of 2020 location interoperability status in Italy is based on the information provided by Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale (AgID – Agency for Digital Italy), Databases and Open Data Unit.
LIFO 2020 Italy
Overview
The information collected through the LIFO 2020 data collection indicates that Italy reached an overall level of location interoperability close to the European average.
The strongest focus area for Italy is “Policy and Strategy Alignment”, similarly to most participating countries. Italy reports a very high level of alignment between location strategy and digital strategy, which is the main driver of the country’s good positioning in this focus area and an absolute excellence among all participating countries. The use of geospatial standards as reference for public procurements of location information and services is where the margins for improvement, on the contrary, are higher.
A peculiarity of Italy’s location interoperability state of play is the high score reached in the focus area “Governance, Partnerships and Capabilities”, where Italy is best positioned relative to the European average (this focus area is usually the weakest for most participating countries). In this regard, the strengths of Italy’s practices are the involvement of stakeholders in the decision-making process on the role of location information in Digital Government, the initiatives organised to raise awareness and develop geospatial skills, and the agreements signed with other countries’ public authorities to finance, build and operate cross-border location data services.
The score for the focus area “Standardisation and Reuse” is relatively high and aligned with the European average. A high level of reuse of generic ICT solutions pushes the score up, while the gaps in terms of compliance with INSPIRE implementing regulations for datasets and network services are particularly wide.
In the “Return on Investment” focus area, Italy sits in the middle of the scale, with a positioning slightly below the European average. The efforts made to communicate the benefits of integrating and using location information in digital public services offset the gaps reported for the approach to monitoring the efficiency and effectiveness of location-enabled services.
In the “Return on Investment” focus area, Italy sits in the middle of the scale, with a positioning slightly below the European average. The efforts made to communicate the benefits of integrating and using location information in digital public services offset the gaps reported for the approach to monitoring the efficiency and effectiveness of location-enabled services.
“Digital Government Integration” is the focus area both with the lowest score and where the gap against the European average is the highest among the five focus areas. This is mostly due to the low maturity in integrating location and statistical information in the production of location-based statistics and to the limited use of a collaborative methodology to design and develop location-enabled services.
Italy has participated also in LIFO 2019. For the 2019 factsheet, click here
LIFO index for 2020
The LIFO index for Italy combining the scores for all focus areas is 0.52, almost aligned with the European average LIFO index, which is 0.55.
Additional information
For more details, download the factsheet in the attachment section below.
Click here to find out more about the Location Interoperability Framework Observatory (LIFO)
Click here to explore the LIFO 2020 and 2019 results in the LIFO Interactive Dashboards
