Legal Services and Digital Infrastructures. A New Compass for a Better Governance

The 2021 experienced a strange and faded connubium of promises and fears and has been forced to take fully stock of the lessons we have learn during the first much dramatic reactions to the pandemic. Among the several actions taken to restore and to recover it is worth to recall the measures discussed by the European Union to fill the functional need of a better regulative framework ensuring freedoms and protecting privacy and subjective rights of citizens in their interaction with digital devices and automated systems. It is too early to assess the effectiveness and the responsiveness of those measures. A way ahead must be traced not only in terms of quality of the rule making design but also – and foremost – of quality of the implementation process. Here the capacities of the domestic institutions will play – once again – a key role and even more importantly actors engaging into it must represent urgently both governmental and non-governmental instances, private and public rationalities, because only through a wide partnership based on mutual learning and clear distributed responsibilities we find a way out to ensure that freedoms are effectively protected through the augmented democracy, rather than despite it.