Presentazione DG Connect per l'evento #CalabriaDigitale organizzato dall'Associazione Calabresi Creativi

1. I benefici socio-economici
della banda ultra-larga e
l'indice DESI
Filippo Munisteri
Economic Analyst
DG CONNECT
Filippo.munisteri@ec.europa.eu
Bruxelles, 25 febbraio 2016

2. An average Sunday in Aalst-Waalre:
5 laptops
2 ipads
1 Apple TV
5+ mobile phones
…and nothing is working properly.

3. 1. Benefici che possono essere monetizzati ed
internalizzati
Il ritorno sugli investimenti per gli operatori privati
• Private operators are driven by Return On Investment
(ROI).
• Focus on Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
• FIRR <0 => Net Present Value (NPV) is negative.
• But: positive externalities for society are not taken into
account (Social Return on Investment, SROI) Look at
Economic Rate of Return (ERR)
• => Economic NPV (ENPV) is positive.

4. 2. Benefici che possono essere monetizzati,
ma non internalizzati
Stokab - Sweden
Invested in open, neutral-fibre network for all
Socio-economic return: 1.7 bn. EUR
Entrepreneurship – 10% relates to 13 extra
companies per 100,000 inhabitants.
Driven distances – 10% relates to 130,000km
less per capita.
Yearly net savings home care – 4m to 68m EUR
Jobs – 10% relates to 3% higher employment

5. 3. Benefici che non possono essere monetizzati,
ne' internalizzati
Verso la banda ultra larga come bene pubblico?
Public goods may be supplied by the private sector
non-excludable and non-rival
cost of provision = high
value to society exceeds costs
targets & net neutrality: nobody should be excluded
Balance competition & public good aspects
only way to capture well-being, quality of life and
value of future real options of growth.

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Piano Operatori Privati Piano Pubblico
BULBUL coperturacopertura
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7. La posizione competitiva italiana:
l'indice DESI

8. Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015 8
Italy's performance
in the DESI 2015
Italy ranks 25 among EU countries.
It falls in the Low performance group of countries.

9. Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015 9
Connectivity: Fixed
Broadband Coverage
In Italy, fixed broadband is available to 99% of households (97% in the EU).
NGA connections are available to 36% of Italian households (68% of European
households).
Source: Broadband coverage in Europe, studies for the EC by Point Topic (2011-
2012 figures, SMART 2011/0027 and 2012/0035) and IHS and Valdani, Vicari &
Associati (2013 figures, SMART 2013/0054)

10. Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015 10
Human Capital:
Internet Users
32% of Italians have never used the internet (18% in the EU)
Source: Eurostat - Community survey on ICT usage in Households and by
Individuals

11. Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015 11
Human Capital: Digital Skills
In Italy 44% of citizens have basic digital skills (54% in the EU)
and 2.6% have above basic digital skills (5.7% in the EU)
Source: Pilot work carried out by DG CONNECT in relation to action 62 of the
Digital Agenda to propose "EU-wide indicators of digital competence". It is
proposed for regular implementation starting with the 2015 survey.

12. Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015 12
Use of Internet
Italians, much like European citizens in general, perform a diverse set of activities online.
They use the Internet to consume content and media, to communicate, and to perform
transactions.
Source: Eurostat - Community survey on ICT usage in Households and by Individuals;
IHS Technology databases - TV Media Intelligence Service.

13. Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015 13
Integration of Digital Technology:
Business digitization
Businesses in Italy are adopting different digital technologies to enhance
productivity, such as sharing internal information electronically or using RFID,
eInvoicing, Social Media and Cloud.
Source: Eurostat - Community survey on ICT usage and eCommerce in Enterprises

14. Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015 14
Digital Public Services:
eGovernment users
18% of Italians have exchanged filled forms with the public administration online,
whereas overall in the EU 33% of citizens have done so.
Source: Eurostat - Community survey on ICT usage in Households and by
Individuals

15. Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015 15
Digital Public Services:
Open Data
Italy scores 485 out of 700 in the European Public Sector Information scoreboard,
against an overall score of 378 out of 700 for the European Union.
Source: The Public Sector Information Scoreboard is a ‘crowdsourced’ tool to
measure the status of Open Data and PSI re-use throughout the EU.

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