Digital infrastructures

Adsl for the entire region
Emilia-Romagna is state-of-the-art with respect to other Italian and European regions for broadband services. Lepida, the digital telematic network which already covers a substantial part of the area ensures the availability of broad-band for the entire region, from the Adriatic to the Apennines. This will put a definitive end to the digital divide, which is already below the European average. This is borne out by recent start-ups of dynamic young businesses, which are bringing people back to mountainous areas, from which only a few years ago there was an outflow of people in search of work.

Public Administration and online services
The presence of digital infrastructures in the region guarantees citizens and businesses with increasing efficiency of Public Administration, which already exploits the benefits of the Internet to the full: the public institutions of Emilia-Romagna have a rate of presence online far higher than the Italian average and are at the leading edge in Europe for the supply of interactive services. High speed web is a facility in most municipalities of Emilia-Romagna (87,7%), which make use of a wide ranged of evolved tools for document management and digital signatures.

Connectivity of businesses
From a point of view of businesses and private subjects, nearly 80% is reached by an xDSL service, an achievement that places the region among the top in Europe. Services such as tax payments or business registrations are now possible online for the Emilia-Romagna companies. Many also provide their clients with a purchasing service on the Internet: 66% of businesses have a their own web site (source: Istat 2007).


Cartography: Lepida,the broadband network for Emilia-Romagna’s public administrations