This new Digitalization and Cyber Security Agency (ADiC) marks the Generalitat Valenciana’s latest move to strengthen technology governance across the public sector. Under the leadership of Arcadi Spain, the regional department head, ADiC was unveiled this Thursday to bring together representatives from administrations, businesses, and civil society. The goal is to centralize IT management and fortify the region’s cybersecurity framework, delivering a coordinated approach to digital services and risk management. Source attribution: Valencian Government.
The project was first announced by council chairman Ximo Puig at a plenary session held at Ciudad de la Luz, near the end of July. Carolina Pascual, formerly Minister of Innovation and Universities, was named commissioner as part of this reform. The presidency of ADiC will be led by a central figure, with José Manuel García Duarte, the managing director of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), guiding the agency’s strategic direction. Source attribution: Valencian Government.
Financial Support for Businesses
The Generalitat has announced a liquidity measure involving 170 million in loans to companies and self-employed individuals. The objective is to ease financial pressure amid rising costs and to ensure continued operations and growth, particularly for small enterprises navigating a challenging economic environment. Source attribution: Valencian Government.
The ADiC was created to redefine how the administration uses technology and to promote a practical model for implementing robust cybersecurity and ICT governance across the entire administration. Its mission includes closing technology gaps for seniors and families who may lack access to new digital tools, while granting the government autonomy, a distinct legal personality, and its own treasury and assets. The Consell remains fiscally responsible to the Treasury, but ADiC can determine its functional alignment with other departments to execute sectoral plans. Source attribution: Valencian Government.
Planning
ADiC’s remit covers ICT, cybersecurity, and remote management for the Generalitat and its autonomous bodies. This includes electronic administration, organizing information security across the region, ensuring the cyber resilience of Valencian society, centralizing ICT contracting, reforming processes, data handling and routing, and supervising ICT operations in public trading entities such as Istec. Source attribution: Valencian Government.
Establishing the organization addresses three core gaps identified in the sector: contracting, skill management, and alignment with evolving technological trends. The plan also aims to centralize several technological services within the instrumental public sector to improve efficiency and reduce fragmentation. Source attribution: Valencian Government.
Model
In a Treasury release, it was stated that the Generalitat would emulate successful regional models that have worked for over two decades in places like Andalusia, Catalonia, Galicia, and Madrid. The initiative signals a broader harmonization effort that has been underway for years. In the near term, ADiC serves as an internal anchor and an external reference for other bodies seeking alignment with the new framework. Source attribution: Valencian Government.
The agency aims to streamline operations by centralizing technological resources, delivering more efficient ICT management and meaningful cost savings. The consolidation of ICT management is nearing completion, marking a pivotal step in modernizing public sector capabilities. Source attribution: Valencian Government.
A project that completes thirty years of work
Centralizing ICT has long been a stated objective for ADiC. ICT leadership highlighted that after decades of dispersed responsibilities, Generalitat has begun consolidating powers into a single department to drive unified digital progress. Source attribution: Valencian Government.