"After
all, roughly a third of Italians have never used the Internet, giving
the country one of the lowest rates of usage in Europe. Residents can
recall providers laughing over the phone at their request for an
Internet hookup, or the perplexed look of technicians upon arriving in
Verrua Savoia, where just 1,500 residents live in dozens of small
settlements spread over nearly 20 miles of valleys and steep hillsides
in northern Italy.
Even
so, some here believed they had the right to join the digital world, to
pay their bills, do their banking or make a doctor’s appointment
online.
One
was Daniele Trinchero, a professor at the nearby Polytechnic University
of Turin, who helped set up a nonprofit association that started last
week and that offers fellow citizens what both the state and
telecommunications companies have so far failed to deliver. The group
may be the first of its kind in Italy". Gaia Pianigiani, nyt.
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