Europe | Io, robot
Italy’s digitisation minister has big goals and a big budget
Vittorio Colao has €40bn to bring his country’s IT up to speed
|ROME
THE HOMELAND of Galileo and Marconi has proved unexpectedly resistant to digital technology. Many Italians adopted mobile phones while they were still a rarity in other countries, including America. Yet the share who regularly use the internet is no higher than in Turkey.
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