Italy

Italy ranks 26th at 3.09. The Developer Ecosystem pillar literally hits 0.0 — Italy has the lowest per-capita GitHub developer count in the EU27. Other pillars are weak too: grassroots adoption is bottom quartile, private sector mid-low.

Strengths

Public Sector Health at 5.56 — close to the EU27 median; Italian government domains are predominantly EU-hosted.

Weaknesses

Lowest per-capita developer density in the EU — 1.53. With 59M inhabitants, Italy should have a much larger developer pool; instead the per-capita ratio is rock-bottom.
Bottom-tier grassroots adoption — sovereign browser share 11.49%, Linux 3.53%.
Low private-sector hosting — .it raw rating 0.43.

Outlook

Italy's developer-density score is the most striking weakness across the EU27. A country of this size with this little tech-workforce signal points to a fundamental disconnect between the educational system and modern software-engineering employment. Long structural issue.

Historical context

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.

Référence historique

Fiche OSOR (PDF, 2024) — le rapport de politique Open Source par pays, utilisé dans le pilier Politiques publiques retiré d'EDRIX 1.0.

Développeurs GitHub (indice par habitant)	1.53
Part de Linux sur les ordinateurs de bureau et portables	3.53%
Part des navigateurs souverains (Firefox + Opera)	11.49%
Note de souveraineté des domaines — tous (TLD national)	0.433
Note de souveraineté des domaines — secteur public	0.556

Scores des piliers EDRIX (normalisés 0–10)

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