This Digitization and Cyber Security Agency (ADiC) is the baptismal name of the Generalitat Valenciana’s new agency affiliated with the Ministry of Finance and the Economic Model. The head of the regional department, Arcadi Spain, was responsible this Thursday for presenting representatives of administrations, companies and civil society with a presence at Generalitat that will centralize IT management and strengthen its cybersecurity strategy.
chairman of the council, Ximo Puigwas the first to announce this new project at a plenary meeting at the Ciudad de la Luz facilities at the end of July, when Carolina Pascual, the former Minister of Innovation and Universities, announced that she would become commissioner. From the presidency of Digitization and Cyber Security, the woman from Elche is therefore an important part of this initiative. But its head is José Manuel García Duarte, managing director of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
The agency was created to promote a new definition and action necessary to advance its implementation. organizational model and cybersecurity for the entire Administration, where they will work to reduce the gap in sectors such as seniors or families who do not have access to new technologies. It will have a differentiated public legal personality, its own assets and treasury and management autonomy, and full legal capacity within its jurisdiction. While Consell is subordinate to the Treasury, it may decide on its functional dependence on other departments to implement the measures established within the sectoral plans.
Planning
ADiC’s tasks include ICT, cybersecurity and remote management For Generalitat and its autonomous bodies, understanding this as electronic management, organization of Generalitat’s information security, cybersecurity of the Valencian society, central contracting of ICT services and materials, restructuring of processes, data processing and routing, planning and supervision of the execution of the activities of the trading company Istec.
Establishment of the organization is motivated by the need to mitigate three key weaknesses identified in these issues: contracting, Skill management and compliance with technological trends. According to Spain itself, it also aims to address the centralization of certain technological services in the instrumental public sector.
model
In a statement released by the Treasury, it was noted that Generalitat has chosen to “copy the best of pre-existing models in the Province for over 20 years, as Andalusia, Catalonia, Galicia and Madrid have similar vehicles”. This project also concludes the harmonization process that has been going on for years. Looking ahead to the short-term, the ADiC is “only one directing an internal, but also an external reference.
The agency will provide better organizational management as it will ensure that all operations are centralized.Generalitat’s technological resources, with more efficient management and significant cost savings. The process of centralization of ICT management, which was at the stage of completion in 2011, has started.
A project that completed thirty years of work
Centralization of ICT is one of the goals from which the Digitization and Cyber Security Agency (ADiC) was born. This was acknowledged by ICT chief executive José Manuel García Duarte on Thursday and said, “After 30 years of decentralized powers, Generalitat has begun to consolidate powers into a single department.”