The EU State aid policy for broadband: An evaluation of the Italian experience with first generation networks

Matteucci, Nicola

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2019.101830

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“…In fact, the digital broadband gap between the Member States of the Union and the less developed rural areas has not been eliminated [53]. Matteucci [54] highlights a positive balance between the pros and cons of public intervention, as when looking at the performance of auction prices and the cost accounting of public works it seems that state intervention was carried out in a non-distorting and market-friendly manner. Besides, in acquisitions, despite being focused on technical quality, there was also a particular focus on greater efficiency, which broadly confirms the adequacy of the European Union's procurement law.…”

Section: The Role Of Governments In Connectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Besides, in acquisitions, despite being focused on technical quality, there was also a particular focus on greater efficiency, which broadly confirms the adequacy of the European Union's procurement law. Matteucci [54] also points out important criticisms, such as the fact that the evolution of technology (5G, Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, etc.) requires faster deployment throughout the territory of the latest generation networks, as a technological prerequisite for the launch of services.…”

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The Rural Digital Divide in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Europe—Recommendations from a Scoping Review

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The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the digital vulnerability of many citizens of the rural world. This article identifies and analyzes the proposals made by academic literature to overcome the digital divide in the European rural world for the five-year period 2016–2020. A scoping review has been carried out according to the PRISMA methodology in the two dimensions of the digital divide: access and connectivity, and use and exploitation. Online databases were used to identify scientific articles from which, after screening, 28 key documents were selected. The results update Salemink systematic review of articles published between 1991 and 2014 on digital and rural development in Western countries and it also intends to go beyond by extracting recommendations. A variety of political, social, educational, technical and economic issues has been exposed, with a common emphasis on the empowerment of rural populations. The findings provide actionable evidence and proposals to facilitate decision-making in current policy information to overcome rural digital divide. From them, seven recommendations that could have a wide and rapid impact to minimize the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic linked to the rural digital divide are synthesized. Three lines of action in the medium term are also proposed: the evaluation of national and regional public policies; the consideration of digital inclusion as a potential instrument to reduce rural depopulation; and the training in advanced digital skills to improve the social communication processes, considered key to promote empowerment and entrepreneurship.

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Section: The Role Of Governments In Connectivitymentioning

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Section: The Role Of Governments In Connectivitymentioning

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The Rural Digital Divide in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Europe—Recommendations from a Scoping Review

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“…However, it is visible that it exhibits only a limited magnitude in the coefficient. The Lombardy regionand the broader north-west of Italyhas the most significant first-generation broadband service coverage rate (Matteucci, 2019). This might explain the slight magnitude in the coefficient.…”

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Who were the losers and winners during the Covid-19 pandemic? The rise of remote working in suburban areas

Mariotti

Matteo

Rossi

2022

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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The Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly altered the habits and lifestyles of every citizen worldwide and will have effects in the medium to long terms. The need for 'social distancing' has negatively affected urban areas and encouraged a rescheduling of working methods. Knowledge-intensive activities have been massively undertaken on a large scale in remote working, mainly carried out at home. Within this context, the paper explores the changes in working modalities towards remote working by focusing on the Lombardy region in north-west Italy. Specifically, it explores the renewed suitability of the municipalities outside the regional capital city of Milan with regard to remote workers during the pandemic and compares it with the period before the pandemic, and also it analyses which determinants play a role. The results show that municipalities closer to Milan with a strong broadband connection, a high concentration of knowledge workers and foreign immigrants are more suitable for hosting remote workers.

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“…These implementation failures have been attributed to country‐level features, such as country specificities, its normative stratification and the legalistic culture of the Italian PA (Capano, 2003). E‐services contributions point to the high territorial heterogeneity of the ICT diffusion across the PA (Torres et al., 2005; Arduini et al., 2010; Cepparulo and Zanfei, 2021): in this case, explanations point to idiosyncratic factors, such as the complexity of technology and other enabling factors, like broadband infrastructure (Seri et al., 2014), or the regional and local institutional quality (Matteucci, 2019; 2020). Therefore, the external benefits of the PA's ICT diffusion may not mature or may fail to reach the entire business sector and all citizens, so that our disaggregated empirical test is more than warranted.…”

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ICT diffusion in public administrations and business dynamics: Evidence from Italian municipalities

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Santolini

Fabio

2022

Ann Public Coop Econ

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Public administrations have been adopting information and communication technologies (ICT) to transform their internal organization and provide better public services to citizens and firms. However, the external benefits, despite being deemed relevant, have been empirically overlooked. We first explore the relation between ICT diffusion in public administrations and business demography at the municipal level by studying the Italian context. Our results show that ICT diffusion in the PA contributes to significantly reducing the death rate of firms and boosting their turnover rate. The adoption of ICT in the PA also exerts a positive impact on the firm birth rate, although it is not statistically significant. These results shed light on the importance of promoting e‐government and framing coherent digital agendas as public instruments for supporting entrepreneurship and regional economic development.

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The EU State aid policy for broadband: An evaluation of the Italian experience with first generation networks

Cited by 17 publications

References 18 publications

The Rural Digital Divide in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Europe—Recommendations from a Scoping Review

The Rural Digital Divide in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Europe—Recommendations from a Scoping Review

Who were the losers and winners during the Covid-19 pandemic? The rise of remote working in suburban areas

ICT diffusion in public administrations and business dynamics: Evidence from Italian municipalities

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