The growing importance of digital risk&governance

The aim of the paper is to explain what is meant by Digital Risk&Governance. For this purpose, it is important to retrace the technological evolution that has affected the last few decades: from branches to Mobile Banking, from the digitalization of transactions to the creation of Fintech, from the first process automations to Artificial Intelligence. This evolutionary journey has not only involved and still involves the birth of new technologies, but also the possibility of seizing new business opportunities and therefore necessarily of facing new types of risk, which are not always intuitive and easy to fully understand and manage. In this context, the role of the Regulator is fundamental not only to make available to companies elements for a correct and complete understanding of Digital/ICT Risk, but also to provide guidelines that allow for the construction of an organizational and governance model suitable for gaining awareness risk and to assess, manage and monitor it. A fundamental role is played by the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), which certainly better defines some aspects that until recently did not find a clear place, but - even more important - which allows these aspects to be included in an organic and holistic framework. Governance and organization are essential in this panorama, the only functions capable of spreading the risk culture necessary to overcome the silo mentality and to establish the cultural paradigm change essential for managing ICT Risk. Given the extension of the perimeter that is generally included under this risk, the paper goes on to underline the most relevant aspects and suggests in a practical way the components on which companies should concentrate in order to implement and make usable an all-round management framework: from the identification of critical functions to the importance of having tools capable of certifying the correctness, completeness and quality of the data. Another high-sounding and closely related theme, which therefore could not fail to be addressed in the paper, is represented by the cyberattack and its impacts on the market. The paper then closes with a theme which, in our opinion, plays an even more stately role than the creation of an overall framework can play: the Digital Strategy, consciously accessible only through a Digital Risk&Governance framework, but which represents the ultimate goal to which companies should aspire

Transitioning to regenerative urbanism

This thesis describes a framework for transitioning to regenerative urbanism. Regenerative urbanism represents a new planning paradigm that optimises urban fabric and applies a regenerative design overlay to deliver highly liveable and sustainable urban development. This approach integrates across systems (energy, transport, water, waste, food, biodiversity), and scales (plot, precinct, city). Mainstreaming regenerative urbanism could usher in a period of planetary biosphere regeneration by facilitating a global network of net positive impact regenerative cities

The Development of eServices in an Enlarged EU: eGovernment and eHealth in Lithuania

In 2005, IPTS launched a project which aimed to assess the developments in eGoverment, eHealth and eLearning in the 10 New Member States at national, and at cross-country level. At that time, the 10 New Member States were Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, and Slovakia. A report for each country was produced, describing its government and health systems and the role played by eGovernment and eHealth within these systems. Each report then analyzes, on the basis of desk research and expert interviews, the major achievements, shortcomings, drivers and barriers in the development of eGovernment and eHealth in one of the countries in question. This analysis provides the basis for the identification and discussion of national policy options to address the major challenges and to suggest R&D issues relevant to the needs of each country ¿ in this case, Lithuania. In addition to national monographs, the project has delivered a synthesis report, which offers an integrated view of the developments of each application domain in the New Member States. Furthermore, a prospective report looking across and beyond the development of the eGoverment, eHealth and eLearning areas has been developed to summarize policy challenges and options for the development of eServices and the Information Society towards the goals of Lisbon and i2010.JRC.J.4-Information Societ

Telemedicine

Telemedicine is a rapidly evolving field as new technologies are implemented for example for the development of wireless sensors, quality data transmission. Using the Internet applications such as counseling, clinical consultation support and home care monitoring and management are more and more realized, which improves access to high level medical care in underserved areas. The 23 chapters of this book present manifold examples of telemedicine treating both theoretical and practical foundations and application scenarios