Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI). European Guidelines and Empirical Applications on the Territory

The monitoring of technological development for the improvement of the national performance of EU Member States has become one of the main points of discussion of the European Commission for to keep abreast of countries like the USA, Japan and South Korea. This system results in the development index of Digital Economy and Society (DESI), an instrument that can detect a data system in order to quantify the level of technological development at the macro level and the micro level. The topic of this paper, in a first part, is to understand the development and applications of DESI index. Finally, following the European guidelines on index DESI, will be made an application on Abruzzo’s territory for rebuild a framework of technological development of the region.