Over the last few years there has been a growing attention to innovative welfare policies and services, in order to try to provide effective answers to the emergence of new forms of economic, cultural and social inequality on the one hand, and to a demographic scenario in great transformation on the other, as the recent ISTAT survey on 2019 demographic indicators clearly shows.
The procedure for the definition of an Unlimited Licensing Agreement between Lepida and Oracle has been successfully concluded. The agreement provides, for Lepida and all its Partner Bodies, with the exception of the Universities, a deployment model for the Oracle Enterprise software, in all its components, with unlimited licensing.
On February 5th, the H2020 project COSIE organized a seminar in Utrecht, at the University of Applied Sciences, to deepen the experiences of co-creation in public services.
Since December 19th, 2019, the certifications obtained by Lepida - ISO 9001 (quality management system) and ISO/IEC 27001 (information security management system) - include all personnel, locations, processes and services of the organisation.
The LepidaID mobile application by Lepida, already available on Google Play Store by early October 2019, is now also available on the Apple APP Store from the end of December 2019. It is a simple and essential APP for the generation of the temporary security code (the so-called OTP: One-Time Password) which is required to any SPID LepidaID digital identity, in order to access services that are bound by a two-factor identification.
Lepida and the Local Health Authority of Bologna participate in the niCE-life project of the Central Europe Programme (Innovation Axis), which aims to promote social innovation and the integration of fragile people, especially the elderly, in the programme area. The coordinator of the project is the City of Bratislava (Slovakia), another Italian partner being the ISRAA – Institute for Hospitalization and Assistance to the Elderly of Treviso.
On February 10th, following the census of the Public Administration ICT assets conducted by the Digital Agency, the Lepida Datacenter in Ferrara was announced eligible for utilization by the National Strategic Pole (PSN), while the Lepida Datacenters in Ravenna and Parma have been recognized as members of the "Group A", according to the classification provided in the “Three-Year Plan for Information Technology in the Public Administration 2019-2021”.
Lepida has reached the date of December 31st, 2019 with 8.464 Access Points (AP) connected to the "EmiliaRomagnaWifi wifiprivacy.it" network, almost doubling the objective set by the Regional Digital Agenda, which foresaw the activation of one WiFi hotspot for every 1.000 inhabitants by 2019.
The Assembly of the Assinter Members took place in Rome on November 22nd, inaugurating a new season for the governance of the Association; the Assembly appointed Francesco Ferri - currently President of the in-house club ARIA S.p.A. - as the new President, and elected the team he proposed in the Executive Committee to lead the network for the next two years. The President will be supported by a team of Vice-Presidents/Councillors who will provide their experience and specific know-how on strategic issues.
The ACTIVAGE project implements numerous use cases in 9 Deployment Sites (DS), considered strategic for the implementation of effective policies to address the challenge of healthy ageing. The DSs are located in Spain, Germany, France, Greece, Finland and the United Kingdom as well as in the Emilia-Romagna Region, in the Parma area, selected for the Health Care Public Administration Forum in the Integrated Care area.
