The Italian Law Principles for Digitisation and Automation in the Life Cycle of Public Contracts

The article delves into the principles relating to the digitization in the life cycle of public contracts.Preliminarily, the Authors analyze the general principles of the subject: the principle of legality, the so-called “digital citizenship”, the principle of transparency - also understood as accessibility to data and information, as well as the knowability of automated decision-making processes - the implications for the right to the protection of personal data and for IT security.The analysis then dwells on the technological solutions useful for public contracts and, with particular reference to the automation of decision-making processes, explores the characteristics that distinguish “artificial administrative intelligence” (AAI, an algorithmic discretionary decision-making), and then examines the principles to which the latter must be subject.