DIGIPASS and innovation processes in Umbria.

Innovation creates value in terms of solutions that improve people's lives. But how does an innovation process take place? How to create a community of innovators in Umbria? How to make citizens experience the digital revolution as an opportunity?

The DigiPASS Network, financed by the Umbria Region in collaboration with the municipalities, is one of the tools to respond to the need for innovation for citizens and businesses. These open public spaces called DigiPASS, distributed throughout the Region, have the objective of accompanying citizens and businesses in the use of digital services as well as in seizing the opportunities that technologies make available to businesses by encouraging innovation. Today, many people see the opportunities in going digital, while for those lacking the right knowledge, it can represent an obstacle at risk of marginalization. In DigiPASS, citizens can find trained people to turn to for help in using a new digital service, such as booking clinical exams online, making co-payments for medical services online, registering a child at school, opening an e-mail box, paying a bill and much more. In addition to these functions, there is also the activity of raising awareness and fostering innovation of the territory. DigiPASS has already been inaugurated in Marsciano for the Middle Tiber Valley, Gubbio, Assisi and Narni.

In synergy with the regional intervention is placed the brilliant initiative of the students of the 5B Scientific High School of the Salvatorelli Moneta Institute of Marsciano have started shooting a video - reportage to be presented at the 2019 edition of the competition "Investing in your future", promoted by the Umbria Region to publicise some of the interventions funded by the Regional Operational Programme (ROP) of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Plans are to harmonise DigiPASS with subsequent actions in support of business innovation, through Sviluppumbria’s Living LAB projects, understood as open innovation projects and laboratories that will strengthen research and technological development for the improvement of the quality of life in the territory. The Living LAB activities (financed in action 1.4.1 of ERDF ROP 2014/2020) will be carried out primarily in the same physical spaces identified for DigiPASS (financed in action 2.2.1 of the ESF).

Visit the LIVING LABproject page