Digitalizzare la pubblica amministrazione: Il caso Spid tra pratiche digitali e nuove diseguaglianze

Digital transformation is increasingly affecting the organisation of public administration (PA) and the delivery of public services. The digitalisation of the public sector is often presented as an unambiguous, desirable and/or even inevitable process, also linked to discourses concerning organisati...

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Main Author: Fabio Maria Esposito
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Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/16092
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description Digital transformation is increasingly affecting the organisation of public administration (PA) and the delivery of public services. The digitalisation of the public sector is often presented as an unambiguous, desirable and/or even inevitable process, also linked to discourses concerning organisational efficiency and effectiveness. On the other hand, PA digitalization is only rarely analysed in situated terms, by looking – for instance – at actual emerging practices, technologies-in-use, or organizational reassemblages. Among the aspects mosty affected by PA digitalization we can find processes of interaction between public institutions and citizenship, which are now widely and increasingly intermediated through apps, websites and platforms. Here, one of the main needs concerns the creation of authenticated forms of digital identity, defined by the European Commission as ‘key enablers’ of digitisation. This article proposes an analysis of the main tool dedicated authenticated digital identification  in Italy: the Public Digital Identity Service (Spid). By drawing on qualitative empirical data of different kinds regarding the setup of Spid and the micro-relational user practices related to it, we will attempt to highlight how Spid elicits potential forms of exclusion that stem from how the system is configured. To do so, we will look at how Spid rearticulates the relationship between institutions and beneficiaries in practice and at the ways this relates to possible forms of exclusion and marginalisation in the use of public, social and healthcare services thus inducing new forms of digital inequality.
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spelling doaj-art-a8a2f8431c0d4cc99aee96e7bd2a8b702025-08-20T02:16:48ZengFirenze University PressCambio2239-11182024-12-01142710.36253/cambio-16092Digitalizzare la pubblica amministrazione: Il caso Spid tra pratiche digitali e nuove diseguaglianzeFabio Maria Esposito0Cnr – Irpss, ItaliaDigital transformation is increasingly affecting the organisation of public administration (PA) and the delivery of public services. The digitalisation of the public sector is often presented as an unambiguous, desirable and/or even inevitable process, also linked to discourses concerning organisational efficiency and effectiveness. On the other hand, PA digitalization is only rarely analysed in situated terms, by looking – for instance – at actual emerging practices, technologies-in-use, or organizational reassemblages. Among the aspects mosty affected by PA digitalization we can find processes of interaction between public institutions and citizenship, which are now widely and increasingly intermediated through apps, websites and platforms. Here, one of the main needs concerns the creation of authenticated forms of digital identity, defined by the European Commission as ‘key enablers’ of digitisation. This article proposes an analysis of the main tool dedicated authenticated digital identification  in Italy: the Public Digital Identity Service (Spid). By drawing on qualitative empirical data of different kinds regarding the setup of Spid and the micro-relational user practices related to it, we will attempt to highlight how Spid elicits potential forms of exclusion that stem from how the system is configured. To do so, we will look at how Spid rearticulates the relationship between institutions and beneficiaries in practice and at the ways this relates to possible forms of exclusion and marginalisation in the use of public, social and healthcare services thus inducing new forms of digital inequality. https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/16092 DigitalizationPublic AdministrationDigital IdentityDigital DivideSPID
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Digitalizzare la pubblica amministrazione: Il caso Spid tra pratiche digitali e nuove diseguaglianze
Cambio
Digitalization
Public Administration
Digital Identity
Digital Divide
SPID
title Digitalizzare la pubblica amministrazione: Il caso Spid tra pratiche digitali e nuove diseguaglianze
title_full Digitalizzare la pubblica amministrazione: Il caso Spid tra pratiche digitali e nuove diseguaglianze
title_fullStr Digitalizzare la pubblica amministrazione: Il caso Spid tra pratiche digitali e nuove diseguaglianze
title_full_unstemmed Digitalizzare la pubblica amministrazione: Il caso Spid tra pratiche digitali e nuove diseguaglianze
title_short Digitalizzare la pubblica amministrazione: Il caso Spid tra pratiche digitali e nuove diseguaglianze
title_sort digitalizzare la pubblica amministrazione il caso spid tra pratiche digitali e nuove diseguaglianze
topic Digitalization
Public Administration
Digital Identity
Digital Divide
SPID
url https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/16092
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