Florence amongst Italy’s most digital cities as soon as once more

Florence has confirmed its place amongst Italy’s most superior cities in digital innovation, in line with the 2025 ICity Rank survey launched by Forum PA in Rome. The Tuscan capital stays within the high three of the nationwide rating for the sixth consecutive yr and is considered one of 15 “full digital” cities within the nation.

The ICity Rank index measures the progress of Italian municipalities in three areas: Digital Administrations, which evaluates on-line companies, web sites and nationwide platforms; Open Municipalities, which seems at social media exercise, open knowledge and cellular apps; and Connected Cities, which focuses on digital infrastructure reminiscent of broadband networks, sensors and knowledge analytics methods.

In 2025 Florence reached the highest place within the Open Municipalities index with 91 factors, forward of Rome and Bologna. It additionally led the Connected Cities rating, alongside Bologna, Milan and Venice. In the Digital Administrations index, Florence got here third after Genoa and Pistoia, which tied for first place.

According to Forum PA, this yr’s outcomes present a robust enhance from nationwide restoration funds (PNRR), particularly within the digitalisation of public administrations, which has helped cut back the hole between massive and smaller cities. Ninety-six municipalities now fall into the excessive or medium-high classes, in contrast with 60 two years in the past.

Florence’s councillor for innovation, Laura Sparavigna, stated the rating confirms town’s management in digital transition. She defined that the municipality goals to place folks on the centre of technological change, together with via a just lately accredited plan for using synthetic intelligence in public companies.

Sparavigna famous that new applied sciences deliver each challenges and alternatives. The metropolis’s strategy, she stated, will proceed to mix human oversight and knowledge safety with coaching programmes for employees and residents, constructing “a less complicated metropolis prepared for the challenges of the long run.”

The 2025 report highlights that progress within the Connected Cities class has been geographically balanced, although regional and demographic variations stay. Northern cities report a mean rating of 69.9, in contrast with 54 within the South.

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