SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation
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An impossible but necessary encounter They never knew each other. Yet, today more than ever, Ada Lovelace and Mary Shelley seem destined to talk to each other. The former, daughter...
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Two days of gathering and sharing, but also and above all of dialogue and open discussion on issues of strategic importance. Two days dedicated to reasoning on how best to...
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When those who study how inventive thinking, an indispensable element in the scientific process towards a more sustainable world, is formed, they … cheat To face and overcome the challenges...
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How much weight, really, does what we publish online have? We are not talking about likes or views, but about environmental, social, cognitive impact. In a hyperconnected world, every digital...
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The “Horizon Business Game”, devised by the University of Padua’s Economics Network and realised with the support of the university and partners, in collaboration with the Foundation for Digital Sustainability’s...
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What a long, strange trip it’s been’ sang the Grateful Dead. And they were right: the journey of innovation is never a straight, well-paved highway. Rather, it is a lysergic...
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The objectives for sustainable development are many and not always immediately relevant to the activities of an ICT in-house. In the following, an attempt is made to illustrate what the...
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Today, sustainability must be the guiding principle of every choice, especially when it comes to digital transformation. Because technology must be an accelerator, not an obstacle to development. It must...
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How it all started before the combustion engine, why today the electric revolution is not coming and we are still here talking about it When we talk about electric cars,...
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In five years as a Foundation for Digital Sustainability, I have seen many, many Sustainability Officers. There are the enthusiastic ones, who take a huge issue on their shoulders and...
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The development of the Internet has revolutionised the way we live, work and connect with the world. But, as in any self-respecting revolution, there are those who have taken advantage...
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The digital transformation of the Public Administration is no longer just a technical or infrastructural issue: it is a lever of public, sustainable value, capable of generating economic and social...
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‘God is dead’: an expression that spans the centuries, from Nietzsche to Guccini, via the Nomads, and that continues to echo in multiple contexts. Nietzsche used it to describe the...
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Maritime transport is a key pillar of global trade and, at the same time, a non-negligible source of emissions. Estimates indicate that ships are responsible for around 2% of global...
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Data from the Sustainable AI Report reveal a cautious Italy: neither seduced nor hostile, but in search of a reliable relationship with technology. A psychoanalytic reading reveals that what is...
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Three days of discussion, experimentation and training saw 56 caving rescue technicians from all over Italy take part from 10 to 12 October. The occasion was theOpen Day CTS 2025,...
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When 10% of the machines do 90% of the work (and the horses disappear) In 1963, Derek J. de Solla Price discovered some ruthless mathematics: in any human field, half...
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Anas, the company that, for almost a century, has built, managed and maintained the roads that connect every place in the country, has joined the network of the Foundation for...
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The digital transformation is changing, and is destined to change more and more, many aspects of our lives: the way we work, communicate, connect with each other in the most...
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“Man has become a kind of god-prosthesis: when he makes use of all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but he does not carry them with him and often...
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Digital technology must be developed according to sustainability criteria and, at the same time, represent an essential tool for building a sustainable future. This is the assumption that encapsulates the...
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The presentation at the Press Room of the Chamber of Deputies, on 17 July, of the Manifesto for the DigitalSustainability of Communication by the Foundation forDigital Sustainability – which drafted...
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“Lo mal fabbro blames lo ferro”. Dante- banquet Once revolutions were made by the poor who took to the streets and overturned the system. Now revolutions are made by the...
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Today they are everywhere, from the roofs of our homes to large installations, from the space station to our smartwatches. But let’s go back almost 200 years and trace the...
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In the context of digital transformation, accelerated today by Artificial Intelligence, In-House companies play a crucial strategic role. Indeed, they are not limited to collecting the needs of public administrations,...
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Today, sustainability is no longer an accessory variable, but an indispensable condition for the very survival of companies. Regulatory pressure, growing stakeholder attention and the urgency of environmental problems have...
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From automation to autonomy: when puppets cut the strings Every civilisation has a moment when everything it knew stops working as expected. It is not just a change, it is...
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ICT in-house companies are characterised by a number of fundamental and indispensable elements, also based on operational flexibility, in order to meet the needs of their public member organisations. The...
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If digitisation is the tool that can enable a sustainable transition, it is knowledge, open and shared, that can really steer it towards sustainability. And this knowledge must be built...
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This Thursday, at the Press Room of the Chamber of Deputies and at the initiative of theHon. Enzo Amich, the Foundation for Digital Sustainability presented the most recent of its...
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An example of competition and collaboration: two opposites but both decisive for the development of scientific knowledge and for realising the technological innovations that will lead us towards a more...
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A significant exercise by the Speleological Technical Commission (CTS) of the Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico (CNSAS), which took place in the Antro del Corchia, in the municipality of...
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The most pressing challenges of our time share one essential trait: they are systemic. They do not manifest themselves in isolation, but emerge as networks of interdependencies that cut across...
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Emphasising the importance of in-house companies in the sustainable digital transformation of the public administration, inviting them to take a proactive role in promoting digital sustainability: it is with this...
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An in-house company aims to maximise the effectiveness of the action of its controlling administration. This approach is a far cry from that of a company whose aim is to...
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On 1 July, the National Mineral Exploration Programme (PNE) was approved, a strategic plan to launch 14 research projects throughout Italy, from north to south. The initiative, promoted by the...
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Laura is 28 years old and works in the grey office of a public administration. She discovered ChatGPT during an emotional crisis. Every night, before falling asleep, she opens the...
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The story of a great inventor who achieved success through study, perseverance and the ability to communicate his ideas. The ideal recipe for those who want to help lead the...
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The public administration has a central and irreplaceable role in the country’s digital transformation. Not only as an institutional player, but as a structural enabler of what we now, with...
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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...
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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...
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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…...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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| 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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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?“....