05/13/22 Analysis by Tessa Lena STORY AT-A-GLANCE The city administration of Bologna, Italy, is piloting a program that brings “digital governance” and the Fourth Industrial Revolution straight to the citizens The new Bologna municipal app comes with a social credit system “Virtuous citizens” get rewards for doing nice things, such as using public transport, keeping their energy use low, etc. World Economic Forum’s “digital governance” framework demands that governments rewrite national laws and regulations to effectively remove “unnecessary” privacy, so that the data can be used to train AI In 2020, seven nations (Canada, Italy, Denmark, the UK, Japan, Singapore, and
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