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Describes the Piemonte region demonstrator within the REMSSBOT project. Indicates which is the field of the application of the demonstrator (the management of the technical and administrative procedure monitoring the industrial plants with relevant risk of accident), and who are the partners of the project. Highlights both the technical and the physical structure of the demonstrator. Lists what kinds of data and information are at present available within the information system and points out what are the benefits coming from the system’s use and the future perspectives.

The User Analysis phase of the project, which consists of the user needs and requirements investigation and the functional specification for each of the participating regions, was one of the most important activities of the project. The article presents the procedures followed during this phase and describes the user needs and requirements for the REMSSBOT project, together with the partners involved in the project and their current IT situations.

This essay aims at retracing the intellectual and biographical events of the economist Gino Arias (1879–1940), examining more in detail the two seasons at the opposite ends of his life: the early one that saw him considerably committed to the Zionist cause and the one that, thirty years later, would force him to confront the racial laws of the Fascist regime.

Despite the seeming tragic continuity of these two phases, Arias’s case is a real historiographical paradox since, over the long span between the opposite ends of his biography, not only did he distance himself from the Zionist movement, but he also gradually laid the foundations for his upcoming and immediate dedication to Fascism; indeed, within the Fascist regime he would stand out as an authoritative and influential theorist of corporatism, the institutional solution Mussolini tried to exploit to organize the national economic life.

After carefully examining Arias’s early contributions to the Zionist cause (that include the establishment of the Florentine Zionist Group and that led him toward strongly nationalistic stances), this essay sums up Arias’s intellectual biography during the next years and then, thanks to unprecedented documents from the Italian Ministry of Interior, closely looks into his fate after his conversion to Catholicism in 1932 and up against the racial laws of 1938, as well as into his attempts to escape persecution. A few final observations will then try to highlight the dramatic exemplarity of his case.