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Charged with energy and new visions, the journey towards the 2025 edition of the Stati Generali della Sostenibilità Digitale continues. On Thursday afternoon, in fact, one of the traditional intermediate...
In recent years, the Italian public administration has launched innovative digital tools such as SPID, PEC, PagoPA and the Electronic Identity Card, aiming not only to streamline practices but also...
Start-ups are a key element in the development of new technologies towards a more sustainable world. But Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, fooled all the investors with a machine that…...
How familiar are Italian citizens with the concept of sustainability, and how do they perceive the main environmental – and other – problems we face? What importance do they attribute...
As photographed by recent ISPRA data, the emission categories of the energy sector contribute more than 80% of total greenhouse gas emissions in our country: about one fifth of national...
When I think of digital sustainability, I don’t just think of servers, platforms or algorithms. I think of the capacity of technologies to build bridges, generate communities, create social value....
Sustainability is not the end of digital transformation, but a structural and enabling principle, and the same applies to cybersecurity, a topic that has a strong interconnection with sustainability. Gyala,...
In recent years, the issue of environmental sustainability has assumed a central role on the global agenda. The need – and the urgency – is to contain the effects of...
The Standard Model: the unifying theory describing all the forces in the Universe had a hole in it. But Peter Higgs and François Englert deserved the Nobel Prize for the...
At the heart of the third millennium, a silent but profound crisis has arisen: the loss of epistemic confidence. Peter Fonagy has outlined its fundamental features, linking it to the...
The electricity collapse in Spain and Portugal reignites the debate on the energy trilemma between sustainability, security and accessibility: a technical and political challenge for the EU of the future....
Digital is the key tool for sustainable transformation, and this is especially true for a complex and crucial sector such as energy. But for this potential not to remain purely...
Sometimes science clashes with fraudsters, sometimes even with entire religious sects. Here is the story of the first human cloning and how the affair has increased distrust in science and...
Towards a new European energy model At the heart of the European political agenda for many years now is a vision that aims to create a sustainable, fair and resilient...
An inventor and an entrepreneur popularised a writing instrument that we now consider trivial and obsolete compared to our touch screens. But this enabled mass schooling and the spread of...
With the term High Performance Computing(HPC), we refer to those technologies used to create computing systems capable of providing very high performance. It is certainly not a recent technology: interest...
A psychoanalytical reading of the latest data of the Observatory for Digital Sustainability reveals the inner contradictions that hold back the sustainable evolution of digital and the conscious use of...
Health is a universal right, yet even today, many people do not have access to timely and effective treatment. Artificial intelligence (AI) stands as a revolutionary technology that can bridge...
Why conspiracists reject science convinced that the world is dominated by secret criminal organisations. And how they obstruct the path to sustainability. You meet someone who, after some small talk,...
The fourth edition of Digital Sustainability Day took place on Tuesday atRome’s Sapienza University: the annual event that the Foundation for Digital Sustainability organises to mark the anniversary of its...
To push the development and adoption of technological solutions with enormous potential for sustainability, and to contribute, together with other important players in this field, to the digital and sustainable...
Digital transformation and environmental sustainability are today interconnected challenges. It is no coincidence that the European Union speaks of a double transition, digital and green, placing them both at the...
A sustainable world must ensure abundant, clean and accessible energy for all. It is the oldest challenge facing all living beings. Imagine waking up in a world without energy. There...
Do Italians see e-commerce as an opportunity or a threat? Are the purchasing platforms available to us today able to enable more sustainable economic models? And then again, how much...
In-house IT companies in the public sector were created to contribute to the Public Administration ‘s objectives with greater flexibility in administrative, recruitment and procurement processes, and they attract talent...
The first series of the Digital Sustainability podcast concludes with the eighth episode. In these eight episodes, we have tried to explore the fundamental concepts that define digital sustainability, offering...
Digital and social media in particular have redefined, as we often write and even more often experience in person, the boundaries between public and private, recombining traditionally separate areas of...
| Spreaker | Spotify | Apple Podcast | Amazon Music | Artificial intelligence is destined to have an impact on our society comparable to that of the invention of fire,...
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Warfare Scholars who will tell the story of the future – we do not know whether it will be flesh-and-blood humans or artificial intelligence...
Unscrupulous fraudsters, such as Jan Hendrik Schön, can undermine popular trust in science, the main tool that will enable us to meet the challenge of sustainability In the early 2000s,...
| Spreaker | Spotify | Apple Podcast | Amazon Music | Economic growth has always been seen as synonymous with progress and prosperity. But is this exactly the case? Are...
We are in a historical moment in which the digital permeates every aspect of our existence, mediating our working relationships, our social relations and, in general, a large part of...
| Spreaker | Spotify | Apple Podcast | Amazon Music | We often think of digital as something intangible, but is this really the case? In this episode of Digital...
We have presented the scientific method as the engine of progress, as the pivotal element guiding the rational path of research and innovation. But, like every great human endeavour, science...
| Spreaker | Spotify | Apple podcast | Amazon Music | Every choice we make, in every sphere, has consequences that propagate in often unpredictable ways. It is the logic...
Imagine a lawyer who confidently presents a brief in court full of detailed legal precedents, solemn citations, names of authoritative judges. Then he discovers that everything is false: the cases...
Commitment to digital sustainability also passes through infrastructures and technological solutions for connectivity that are able to support business growth, education and social cohesion in every community. It is realities...
| Spreaker | Spotify | Apple Podcast | Amazon Music | The journey of discovery of digital sustainability continues with our podcast. After introducing the topic of digital sustainability and...
Smart grids, or smart grids, represent one of the most significant innovations in the energy sector in recent decades. These grids integrate advanced digital technologies into electricity distribution and management,...
The challenge of sustainability can be met by combining curiosity and systemic reasoning, a Nobel Prize winner explains how On 28 January 1986, millions of people around the world watched,...
First of all, a big thank you to those who listened to the first episode of Digital Sustainability – The Podcast! Those who didn’t can find it on all major...
Tourism is a fundamental pillar of the Italian economy. In fact, the sector contributes about 11% of the national added value and, according to Istat data, supports as many as...
An in-depth look at the results of the third area of the report ‘Sustainability and Cyber Security’, carried out by the Foundation for Digital Sustainability with the contribution of Gyala:...
Digital sustainability is the way to systemically balance the potentially negative impacts of technology with the opportunities it offers for sustainable development. With the Foundation for Digital Sustainability, we have...
The scientific method is the tool that has enabled humanity to understand and make intelligent use of the world around it. It is not a linear or obstacle-free path, but...
One of the greatest values of the Foundation for Digital Sustainability lies in the fact that people of great value, both human and professional, have been and are concentrated around...
In an increasingly digital, increasingly connected world, where personal data is collected, analysed and shared at a dizzying pace, safeguarding and protecting this information means defending the fundamental rights of...
A silent retreat is redefining corporate sustainability. Meanwhile, ESG funds find themselves caught between financial pressure and uncertain environmental policies The surprising results of the recent US presidential election have...
Transport emissions continue to rise: more private cars, more goods on the road. The solutions to decarbonise transport are there, but the real challenge is to completely rethink the way...
A Journey of Transformation and Innovation The journey of Tech Economy 2030 continues, evolving once again. Twelve years have passed since 2012, the year Tech Economy began its journey, already...
Blockchain is emerging as one of the most innovative and versatile technologies of our time, capable of profoundly transforming all the key sectors of our economy, including the energy sector....
by Bob Mumgaard September 2021: Our group watched the screen with anticipation as our fusion magnet technology raced toward the 20 Tesla milestone. We knew that the success of that...
The energy transition today is one of the most complex and crucial priorities and challenges of our time. Reducing carbon emissions and accelerating the adoption of renewable sources is not...
Using technology to help people. This is precisely the aim behind mySMART Diary, the first web app at international level, realised by the Foundation for Digital Sustainability in collaboration with...
In recent years, eating disorders have been on the rise, increasingly affecting young people between the ages of 12 and 14. In Italy alone, an estimated three million people suffer...
Inclusive economic growth is what we expect from the future. This is why the first sustainability goal focuses on fighting poverty-not only economic poverty but also inequality, the lack of...
After a long presentation roadshow, which touched upon several Italian universities in 2023, the first edition of the Digital Sustainability Award has come to an end. An Award dedicated to...
On 18 April, during the week ofEarth Day, the Digital Sustainability Day took place: the main meeting in Italy – hosted by theSapienza University in Rome – dedicated to the...
Water is a precious commodity, an essential element for life. Ensuring its availability and sustainable management is at the heart of the basic principles of the2030 Agenda and, to achieve...
Yesterday afternoon, the Foundation for Digital Sustainability – the first recognised research foundation in Italy dedicated to investigating issues of digital sustainability – announced the launch of the ‘Manifesto for...
Today, all over the world, we celebrateEarth Day. But we at the Foundation for Digital Sustainability are also celebrating a year of work. Certainly a strange year, the one that...
Today we celebrate Earth Day. One month and two days after the spring equinox, for the past 51 years, 193 countries have stopped to reflect on the health of our...
Cultural Sustainability Economic Sustainability Environmental Sustainability In Backlight Social Sustainability Visions
I still remember well when, eight years ago now, I published a post on Facebook that read more or less like this: “anyone want to participate in a new project?“....