AGID Agency for Digital Italy

<p>AGID (previously CNIPA and DigitPA) is a legally mandated organization under the supervision of the President of the<br /> Council of Ministers. Is responsible for implementing the Italian Digital Agenda and has the mandate to perform the<br /> following tasks within Italian Government to:</p> <p> foster a wide usage of ICT technologies in Italy;<br /> develop technical requirements and guidelines;<br /> enable cooperation among information systems of governmental bodies and between these systems and the European<br /> Union;<br /> support and promotes initiatives and processes of digitizing;<br /> promote and disseminate information initiatives as well as training for citizens and civil servants;<br /> monitor the implementation of ICT plans in public administrations in terms of effectiveness and efficiency;<br /> constitute a national reference in the context of the European Union and international;<br /> promote institutional arrangements for application cooperation between the public information systems;<br /> coordinate initiatives for efficacy provision of network services for citizens and enterprise;<br /> design the national framework for interoperability of services for the technical and semantic interoperability.</p>