GCSEC CONTRIBUTED TO THE NEW REPORT RELEASED BY THE EASTWEST INSTITUTE, THE INTERNET HEALTH MODEL FOR CYBERSECURITY.

Italian Governement has defined a Digital Agenda for Italy, an interdepartmental steering committee composed by Ministry of Economic Development, of Education, of Economic and Finance has issued the first guidelines, the objective is to issue a decree within the 30th of June.
Also GCSEC has sent its proposal for the strategic project, aiming to contribute to the definition of Italian Digital Agenda about Information Security and Cyber Security; you can read GCSEC’s proposal here.
Approved action points of Digitalia are:
– access to broadband for all citizens within 2014 thanks to 9,2 billion euro funded by UE
– spread ecommerce and POS readers thanks to tax exemptions (objective is to allow to 50& italians to have access to ecommerce services within 2015)
– subsidized credit for companies investing in innovation.

Business International organizes a conference in Rome, on 6th of June, to talk about Digitalia proposals.
Experts and decision makers will discuss if Digitalia action points satisfy Italy’s needs and what are the most urgent things to do: Andrea Rigoni, GCSEC Director-General, will participate to the conference with a speech on Security issues.

More info on the conference here.