Italy
EDRIX Score
4.64
EOTRIX Score
4.12
Tier
Specialized Contender
Overall Assessment
Italy represents the EU's most severe paradox in digital sovereignty: a country with a top-tier public policy for open source that is completely undermined by a near-total absence of a domestic developer ecosystem, resulting in a critical failure of implementation.
Sobering Reality
The website for the President of Italy is hosted in the US, and the email for the city of Rome is run by Microsoft. This limits its Public Sector Digital Resilience score to a moderate 5.98.
2020 Baseline
In 2020, Italy was a "contender," whose strength lay in its world-class open source software policy framework, which compensated for its underdeveloped top-down strategic sovereignty agenda.
2024 Progression
Italy maintains its strong, policy-driven commitment to OSS. The national policy framework, including the Guidelines on the Acquisition and Reuse of Software, continues to strongly favor open source. The Competence Centre for Reuse and Open Source (CCROS) was established in 2020 to support public administrations.
2025 Data-Driven Analysis
The data highlights an extreme disconnect. Italy has an excellent Public Policy score (8.75), among the best in the EU. Inexplicably, it scores an absolute zero for its Developer Ecosystem (0.00), the lowest in the EU. This suggests that despite its world-class strategy, it has not cultivated a local open source talent base.
Strengths
- Public Policy: One of the most mature and legally robust open source policy frameworks in Europe.
Weaknesses
- Developer Ecosystem: A score of zero indicates a critical lack of a visible, per-capita open source developer community and recognized sovereign solutions. This is the most severe weakness in the entire index.
Outlook
Italy faces an urgent and fundamental challenge. Its sophisticated policies are meaningless without the technical capacity to implement them. The country must prioritize a massive investment in tech education, developer community support, and incentives for local open source development. Without this, its digital sovereignty ambitions will remain purely theoretical.