PRESS ACCREDITATION NOTE
Tomorrow, Thursday, 8 February, at 10:00 a.m., Ambassador Riccardo Guariglia – Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – will present the new virtual assistant (chatbot) of the websites of Farnesina and Italian Embassies and Consulates abroad to the public.
Also attending the event will be the Director General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy – Minister Plenipotentiary Alessandro De Pedys – and the Director General for Italian Citizens Abroad and Migration Policies – Minister Plenipotentiary Luigi Vignali.
The virtual assistant will allow instant interactions between the Administration and the general public. Through a set of Q&As based on instant messaging systems, the chatbot will direct users towards the desired information. It will answer various questions – mainly concerning assistance with consular and visa issues – which are often addressed to the Office for Relations with the Public and across the Offices located abroad. Farnesina will be one of the first administrations to employ such a tool following the push towards innovation and digitalisation that has already started with the renewal of institutional websites.
Journalists, photographers and cameramen interested in attending the events may apply for accreditation by sending a request not later than 7:30 p.m. today, Wednesday, 7 February to accreditamentostampa@esteri.it (tel. 06 3691 3432 –3078, 8210 or 8573), attaching the following:
For representatives of Italian press organisations:
- copy of an identity document;
- letter of assignment from the newspaper of affiliation or – in the absence of the latter – copy of professional identity card.
For representatives of foreign press organisations, not accredited at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
- copy of an identity document;
- letter from the newspaper of affiliation;
- Verbal Note of the Embassy in Rome of the country of the press organisation represented (only if not previously sent).
For representatives of foreign press already accredited at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the request must be sent with a copy of an identity document attached.
Accredited press may enter the Farnesina from the main entrance, left side, from 9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.
Submitting the above-mentioned personal data means authorising the use thereof in accordance with Italian Legislative Decree no. 196 of 30 June 2003 and the GDPR (EU Regulation 2016/679) by the Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the data controller, for strictly professional purposes and/or purposes related to the performance of the event in question.
