| Information Society Technologies aim to increase innovation and competitiveness in [European] businesses and industry and to contribute to greater benefits for all [European] citizens. The focus is on the future generation of technologies in which computers and networks will be integrated into the everyday environment, rendering accessible a multitude of services and applications through easy-to-use human interfaces. This vision of "ambient intelligence" places the user, the individual, at the centre of future developments for an inclusive knowledge based society for all. |
The above mentioned aim to increase innovation and competitiveness in
businesses and industry and to contribute to greater benefits for all citizens,
was the basis of the foundation of CRS4 at the end of the 80's and its fundamental
role as computing and network excellence centre in the Scientific and
Technological Park of Sardinia.
| For Sardinia, the impulse to convert itself to the new economy came from a local-government research centre called CRS4, headed by Carlo Rubbia, the Italian Nobel-prize-winning physicist. [...] The CRS4 centre opened Italy’s first website back in 1993. It also worked on a project to help the local newspaper, L’Unione Sarda, to become the first in Europe to go online, in February 1994. |
Information and Communications Technology is currently one of the most
dynamic and innovative fields in Sardinia. It has considerable resources
to activate intersectorial activity and its development has a strong influence
on all other productive activities.
One of the strengths of the government program of the Autonomous Region
of Sardinia is the promotion of the island as a logistics platform of excellence
for scientific and technological research and for the use of the new technologies,
particularly those in the field of Information Society.
| E così arriva l’impresa di Internet in Sardegna, c’è stato da una parte il momento buono, propositivo, un'intuizione felice della politica che fonda il CRS4, che pensa che la ricerca possa essere importante per fare imprese in Sardegna, [...] dal CRS4 c’è stata l’esperienza di Videonline, [...] Grauso più che una impresa lo chiamava un sogno, che poi è andato male dal punto di vista imprenditoriale, [...] ma è da lì che siamo nati noi, è da lì che sono nate le persone che hanno insieme a me fatto Tiscali, ed è da lì che è nata una cultura di Internet in Sardegna. |
Indeed, the emergence and development of important entrepreneurial enterprises
on the island in the field of the network economy, in particular Tiscali,
has contributed to the creation of ideal environmental conditions for the
development of research and business activities linked to the new technologies.
| Tiscali rappresenta un buon esempio di cultura imprenditoriale, che conferma la possibilità di investire con successo in settori così innovativi anche in Sardegna. E infine costituisce un esempio di sinergia con una realtà di ricerca come il CRS4, le cui competenze e tecnologie sono state assai utili per lo sviluppo di questa iniziativa imprenditoriale. |
By the end of 1990, the digital research centre CRS4 was up and running, and it rapidly established itself as an international centre of excellence for innovative digital technologies. Cross fertilizations between the centre and the main media outfit in Sardinia (L’Unione Sarda) produced a chain of events that gave life to a few remarkable start-ups:
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