Analysis by Tessa Lena May 13, 2022
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- The city administration of Bologna, Italy, is piloting a program that brings “digital governance” and the Fourth Industrial Revolution straight to the citizens
- The new Bologna municipal app comes with a social credit system
- “Virtuous citizens” get rewards for doing nice things, such as using public transport, keeping their energy use low, etc.
- World Economic Forum’s “digital governance” framework demands that governments rewrite national laws and regulations to effectively remove “unnecessary” privacy, so that the data can be used to train AI
- In 2020, seven nations (Canada, Italy, Denmark, the UK, Japan, Singapore, and UAE) signed an agreement in partnership with the World Economic Forum to become “Agile Nations”