4. Cloud Strategy for the Public Administration 4. Cloud Strategy for the Public Administration Currently, most public services are delivered through PA data centres that often lack sufficient capabilities to ensure adequate standards of reliability and resilience. Achieving and maintaining such standards requires investments and skills that are not currently available in many central and local public administrations. In this context, the Italian Cloud Strategy is intended as an implementation methodology of the “Cloud-First” policy, a key pillar of the digitalization process of the PA as identified in the Italian PNRR. This will guide and encourage the safe, controlled and complete adoption of Cloud technologies for the PA, with the aim, in the long run, that all the services provided are based on “Cloud-native” applications, i.e. natively developed on the basis of Cloud paradigms. The Cloud Strategy for the PA is therefore based on the following strategic guidelines: 1. Classification of Data and Services: definition of a data classification process to guide and support the migration of PA data and services to the Cloud; 2. Qualification of Cloud Services: implementation of a systematic process of scrutiny and qualification of Cloud services usable by PA; 3. National Strategic Hub: creation of a national infrastructure for the provision of Cloud services, whose management and control are autonomous from non-EU actors. The implementation of these macro-actions will make it possible to harmonise and regulate the adoption of the Cloud in the PA, as well as to apply economies of scale to encourage a reduction in management costs by offering more reliable and resilient digital services. 9