Organized from the ESG Center of Excellence, academic think tank coordinated by Mark Casanova, Aditya Singh of the Athena School of Management, Mumbai, together with Giacomo Poretti of the Department of Innovative Sciences of SUPSI, Lugano conference brought together some of the leading opinion leaders in digital geopolitics to the SUPSI-USI campus in Viganello.
Among them: Professor Francis Fukuyama, an internationally renowned political scientist and lecturer at Stanford University of California ; Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics , who confirmed his participation in the next edition via videoconference; a delegation from the monarchy of Bhutan, led for the occasion in Lugano by Tenzin Rondel Wangchuk, Ambassador of this Asian state to the United Nations in Geneva.
Let us remember that Bhutan is one of the first countries in the world to use information technology to improve the quality of life of its people, preserve their culture and ensure balanced, sustainable and inclusive development.
And this is precisely the innovative evolution that the experts gathered in Lugano reminded the world of: digital platforms today finally allow us to analyze social phenomena in a global, unified, and coordinated way.
This allows us to overcome the current limitations caused by data fragmentation, and opens up new perspectives on their interpretation.
In particular, according to the research of the scholar Elena PanaritisThe economic model launched after the Second World War, oriented towards reconstruction and economic growth, however, also triggered inequalities and distrust towards institutions, because it relegated not only the role of people, but also their socio-cultural expectations.
These apparently secondary elements actually generated opposing effects.
On the one hand, they have hindered the institutional reforms necessary for effective social inclusion.
At the same time, they have marginalized the complications of the relationship between rules and reality to an intrinsic, probably physiological, problem of daily news.
The Reality Check Analysis-RCA , presented by Panaritis to the opinion leaders gathered in Lugano, proposed concrete solutions.
Let's remember the main ones.
A coordinated review of public-private relations that respects established social rights, accompanied by a simplification of administrative procedures that involves stakeholders, those who promote society's interests.
This approach, already adopted in several countries, not only reduces the gap between citizens and institutions, but has also fostered more inclusive growth because, particularly within a single nation, it is sufficient to mobilize the interests of all parties involved.
But there remains one obstacle to overcome: its application in the relationship between individual countries and supranational organizations.
In this context, Panaritis recalls, the minimum intervention threshold could begin with macroeconomic stability, accompanied by a strengthening of banking institutions and facilitation of access to credit.
According to the expert, these are the basic premises that could renew the development of the relationship between the public and private sectors.
At the same time, these theories also anticipate an evolution in social, and probably also political, sensitivity that we will soon have to confront.
Indeed, digitalization is poised to democratize, on a global level, the analysis and resolution of even the most complex social issues, overcoming the limitations of individual interpretations.
Let's get ready: it's only a matter of time.
But the one to benefit, Panaritis predicts, will be the new globalized sociality in which we will all inevitably be called to participate, thanks precisely to the information technology capabilities at our disposal.
