Errore 404: il territorio è offline. Potenzialità e limiti delle strategie di pianificazione nazionale sui borghi medievali a partire dal PNRR Borghi

Among the numerous and consistent changes that have taken place in Italy in the last five years, there is an attempted acceleration in the so-called 'country digitalisation' process, aimed at shortening the distances separating it from the majority of the Union's nations, mostly in line with the objectives shared in the European Digital Agenda. The process of modernisation, increased in 2020-2022 by the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, is frequently coming to terms with the growing need to safeguard some elements of Italian culture and territory that risk being corrupted by excessive globalisation. As part of this phenomenon, the case of the re-launch of the Italian villages presents two different basic needs, which are sometimes difficult to reconcile. On the one hand, it is urgent and necessary to integrate the territorial realities, that can be traced back to the 'village' nature, into the widespread network of digital services in order to avoid their alienation from the rest of the country. On the other hand, there is the risk of distorting the original and direct experience preserved in small centres, homologating them to logics dictated by globalisation. A further key node of the phenomenon concerns the state of advancement of the Internet network deployment projects in the country, which can be monitored through the Piano Strategico Banda Ultralarga, and which do not always coincide with the needs and objectives of the projects concerning specific territories. Through the analysis of some strategic choices made in the two-year period 2020-2021, with particular reference to the projects that are part of the massive state planning provided for in the PNRR Borghi, and the comparison with the actual state of physical and human digitalisation in the areas involved, it is possible to identify some project limits and potentialities that are useful to understand if there exist, as of today, virtuous dynamics in the valorisation of the territories, with appropriate choices of compromise between tradition and modernisation.