{"id":344941,"date":"2014-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-11-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T00:00:00","slug":"for-councils-the-digital-revolution-is-beginning-in-brebbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2014\/11\/for-councils-the-digital-revolution-is-beginning-in-brebbia\/344941\/","title":{"rendered":"For councils, the digital revolution is beginning in Brebbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www3.varesenews.it\/immagini_articoli\/201406\/f3018aee7a70d841251faef0a1417c07.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"197\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>The idea has come at the right time, and it is one of those that may potentially help councils, and therefore the people, to save a lot of money.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Domenico Gioia<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">, the Mayor of <b>Brebbia<\/b>, made his suggestion to about twenty councils: to create <b>a single centre<\/b> for everything in relation to the IT services provided by the local administrations, from electronic invoicing, which will be compulsory from 15 March 2015, to a digital civil registry, to the digitalising and backing up all data recorded at the council.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">This proposal is one that the Mayor, who previously worked in the IT sector, has been developing for months, that he is trying to make concrete as soon as possible.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">&ldquo;We will soon be presenting a protocol for an agreement among <b>about twenty councils<\/b>, between Sesto Calende and Laveno, that includes common governance for outsourcing services of a technological nature,&rdquo; Gioia said. &ldquo;The first step is <b>to bring council servers<\/b>, which are gathering dust in cubbyholes, to <b>a single data centre<\/b>. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve identified two in the province that may satisfy our needs. By doing this, we&rsquo;d achieve an actual saving, and we&rsquo;d be guaranteed the <b>skills to carry out complex tasks<\/b>, which public administrations often lack.&rdquo;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">For example?<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"> <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">&ldquo;For example, <i>disaster recovery<\/i>, a general backup of all of the data stored at the town hall.&rdquo;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">What will the next steps be, if the first is accomplished?<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">&ldquo;Today, the municipal administrations turn to several software application suppliers. This lack of uniformity has a direct impact on council coffers and creates too many differences among the administrations. Instead, <b>by all getting together<\/b>, we&rsquo;d have <b>greater bargaining power<\/b> and the chance to evaluate the best deal from those offered by suppliers, again with an immediate advantage for the council coffers. And there would also be another great benefit.&rdquo;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Which would it be?<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">&ldquo;<b>We&rsquo;d have only one maintenance service<\/b> for all councils, which would always charge the same prices.&rdquo;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">So there are many benefits. And what about the protection of data privacy?<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"> <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">These data centres guarantee the highest level of security.&rdquo;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">One last question: have you quantified the costs if every council were to pay for the services of the Digital Agenda alone?<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;\">&ldquo;Yes, each one would have to pay around &euro; 200,000. 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