CERNOBBIO (COMO) (ITALPRESS) – “We have a duty, and a responsibility, to face complex challenges that require equally complex solutions and that we can only achieve through appropriate skills.” This was stated by the Minister for Public Administration, Paolo Zangrillo, illustrating at the 50th edition of the Ambrosetti Forum “the various initiatives aimed at laying the concrete groundwork for a genuine ‘paradigm shift’ in our administration. “We have to work from the perspective of making things happen, and the starting point inevitably passes through a single factor: our people,” Minister Zangrillo noted, pointing out, data in hand, that for the first time since 2022 the average age of public employees has started to decrease again. “We have started a new season of hiring,” he said, “which in 2023 has led us to include about 170,000 people; for 2024 and 2025 more than 350,000 are planned. All this thanks to “a rethinking of the competition procedures, both in terms of time, which has gone from 780 days to six months, and in terms of the management profile, through the use of a digital tool such as the inPA portal, which has become the only gateway for all administrations. “As for the staff already hired, special attention has been paid to training, “not a mere moment but a continuous and structured activity.” Starting with less than one day of training per employee, “in just eight months,” he said, “we have reached an average of two days per employee, wanting to aim for three days by the end of the year. “We are working intensively to ensure that the PA can finally equip itself with a management system capable of creating public value,” Minister Zangrillo continued, announcing a forthcoming regulatory intervention “aimed at radically changing the current discipline on performance measurement and evaluation,” which from being a mere bureaucratic fulfillment must be able to enhance merit, so as to improve the quality of services with undoubted benefits for citizens and businesses.As for processes, Minister Zangrillo recalled the Pnrr goal of 200 procedures to be simplified by this year, “which I can say with satisfaction we have achieved,” and stressed that artificial intelligence represents “a game-changer for public administration.” “It will not replace the valuable work of our people, but it will be a means of freeing the civil service from various routine tasks,” he added, recalling that the European Commission ranks Italy second in the number of artificial intelligence applications in the public sector and first in the number of projects implemented and released.- photo Agenzia Fotogramma -(ITALPRESS)
