Update on Italian universities:
…Universities keep asking for increased public funding while they are unable to make any sensible use of it due to high red tape, structural deficiencies within the education system and a complete lack of evaluation.
During a public conference held last December in Turin on the potential of so-called “cloud computing” — the use of internet as a technology development platform — one participant sarcastically asked ‘how would user-generated Internet 2.0 work in an Italy 0.0, where broadband penetration is just above 10 per cent?’…
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