Governance and Digital Strategy Domain
Governance and Digital Strategy Examines the organization’s capacity to plan and manage digital initiatives, secure funding, ensure leadership commitment, and coordinate across departments.
Planning and Change Management
- Ability to plan and implement digital transformation programs
- Monitoring and adapting the digital strategy
Financing and Investments
- Ability to acquire and manage financing for digitalization
- Economic sustainability of digital investments
Vision and Leadership
- Long-term definition of a digital strategy
- Leadership engagement in digitalization
- Interdepartmental coordination mechanisms
The European Commission’s State of the Digital Decade 2025 report assesses the EU’s progress along the four target areas for the EU’s digital transformation by 2030, highlighting achievements and gaps in the areas of digital infrastructure, digitalisation of businesses, digital skills, and digitalisation of public service.
State-of-the-Art in South Adriatic
Here you find a brief of the SoA in the South Adriatic regions regarding the level of development and recent enhancements of Governance and Digital Strateg capabilities. These contents represent the results of an assessment on digitalisation conducted within public entities of the involved regions by local working groups.
SoA in Italy
Around 75% of municipalities rely on external providers for ICT operations, while only 25% manage ICT internally. This indicates a reliance on outsourcing rather than a structured internal change management capacity.
The PNRR resources have been identified as decisive by 85% of municipalities for enabling digital transformation. However, information on long-term financial sustainability of digital projects is limited.
In 65% of municipalities, the role of the Chief Digital Officer (RTD) is combined with other senior responsibilities, while only 8.5% have a dedicated RTD. This dual-role setup limits the ability to establish a long-term digital strategy and cross-departmental coordination. Smaller municipalities are more likely to share the RTD role across entities with administrative competencies.