The measure on the threshold within which not to assert the obligation to use the Pos will exit the maneuver. Because there wasn’t the necessary go-ahead from Brussels and because it would have been in contradiction with the commitments made with the Pnrr, in favor of digital payments and traceability in the fight against evasion. Now another measure, for now only hypothesized, risks following the same path. And the same end. The abolition of the Spidwhich would in fact be absorbed by the electronic identity card, would have the contraindication of interrupting the virtuous path that was triggered, and which accelerated exponentially during the Covid pandemic, towards full digitization of citizen services.
This, unless a way is found to make a transition that promises to be complex ‘painless’, the one to ensure the delivery of digital identity no longer entrusted to private managers, but only to public companies, post offices, and therefore at the same time State. There are 33 million Italians who have Spid and who use it to interact with the public administration and also with a series of private entities. They are now accustomed to accessing online services with a click every time they find the ‘Enter with SPID’ button on a site or app.
The increase in digital identities is one of the objectives of the Pnrr and last November the levels set for 2024 were reached. Why then go back, with the concrete possibility of having to trigger a new dispute with the EU Commission? The intention of the government has so far materialized in the positions of the undersecretary to the presidency of the Council with responsibility for technological innovation, Alessio Butti: “We must begin to turn off the Spid and promote the electronic identity card as the only digital identity, national and managed by the state”.
The opposition is that between the prerogatives of the State and those which are evidently considered interference by private individuals. Today, in addition to Poste, there are eight subjects who manage the process of attributing the SPID: Aruba Pec, In.Te.Sa, InfoCert, Lepida, Namirial, Register, Sielte and TI Trust Technologies. The plan outlined by Butti would provide for a transition to a single digital, national and state-managed identity. And the only way to do this is to go through negotiation with private managers, make the replacement automatic so as not to cause the effect of dispersing already acquired digital identities and, above all, respect European rules and standards.
The Minister of Labour Marina Calderone he expressed his line. “I’m not fond of or rather I don’t think we should dwell on evaluating this or that other service, but instead we should give a guarantee of the efficiency of the platforms and the ways in which the citizen interacts with the PA, obviously having the certainty of the identity of the person who enters into a relationship with the Public Administration”. To do this, without going back and without repeating the Pos experience, you need time, resources and careful preparatory work that does not frustrate the efforts made and the stability of the Pnrr system. (Of Fabio Insenga)
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