Paolo De Rosa
Chief Technology Officer
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About
Paolo is the Chief Technology Officer of Italy's Department for Digital Transformation, supporting the Minister for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition. This role includes responsibility for the assessment and, in many cases, technical oversight, prototyping and large-scale implementation of "critical" projects and digital platforms under development within the Public Administration.
As CTO, from August 2019 to present, he has coordinated teams dedicated to both mobile and web development, such as: Security, Product design, Service & Content Design, in order to ensure timely delivery of digital government platforms and services. In particular, during the last year of activity, he managed the development of the digital contact tracing App Immuni and the development of the EU Covid Digital Certificate system (Green Pass).
Paolo contributed to the drafting of the PNRR in relation to measures related to digital transformation, he also coordinated the development of the Italian cloud strategy and its implementation. Paolo worked on this project for 5 years and he is one of the only execs who still works for the project since the beginning. The project is sponsored by European Commission and focused on the development of new services which were inspired by the Government Digital Service. Today they have 13 million people with digital ID.