Minister for Technological Innovation and Digitization, Paola Pisano, opened, this morning, the Global Conference on Governance Innovation (GCGI), #GovInnovation2020, co-organised by the @OECD Public Governance (GOV) and the Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) directorates, with the support of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
The event was inspired by the 2019 G20 Ministerial Statement on Trade and Digital Economy which says, among other things, that “governance in the digital era needs to be not only innovation-friendly but also innovative itself, while not losing legal certainty”, consequently this conference was organized with the aim to exchange information on the need for and experience with governance innovation, in the context of different sectors and different countries, both within and outside of the OECD, and to inform future OECD work.
During her opening intervention Minister Pisano cited many actions included in the recent “Innovation Strategy -2025”, she launched in Italy in last December. She also spoke, among other things, about the importance of a regulation “adaptive “ and technologically neutral; of an inclusive and adequately accountable governance and of the role of international bodies/authorities, to deal with transnational regulation. Regulation plays a role also in making innovation able to face grand societal challenges. With all these purposes, Minister Pisano remarked that the new draft bill “Diritto ad Innovare”as well as the “Ethics Laboratory” project, to test Artificial Intelligence are going to be designed to go already toward these directions.
