National AI Strategy

The National Strategy for Inner Areas is an Italian policy developed in 2013 and promoted by the Agency for Territorial Cohesion and then by the Minister for Territorial Cohesion Fabrizio Barca that aims at enhancing the territorial reactivation of remote municipalities. The document proposes a classification of municipalities according to the spatial inequalities, the different level of accessibility to basic public services. The document then suggests a series of actions and active policies to counteract, or at least mitigate, the demographic decline and the territorial marginalization process. Most of the inner areas are concentrated in the Alpine and Apennine areas and present a significant depopulation and a lack of basic services for residents. At the same time, these areas have a high availability of important environmental resources and cultural resources.