In an era characterized by rapid changes and unstoppable progress it is not only feelings and people that change but also the law Specifically the rise of information and communication technologies has acted as a catalyst for the transiction from an analogue to a digital public administration What however if this shift in direction appears to find no recognition either in ordinary legislation or in the Costitution In light of the above considerations this paper aims to investigate the actual role of the digitalization of public administration in the Italian legal framework starting from the reflections of Giannini who in his famous 1979 Report included among the problems of public administrations a certain aversion to technological progress and tracing this evolution up to the recent concepts of digital first and digital identity only By therefore supporting the existence of a specific citizens right to full digitalization an attempt will be made to frame this concept within the context of the debated law on differentiated autonomy and that of the Constitution with the aim of giving substantive meaning to a term that in these contexts seems to have been forgotten.