Il fenomeno Internet

As the rest of the world, even Europe has recognized the Internet as a powerful catalyst for the growth of creativity, collaboration and innovation. However, the Internet is a phenomenon that, due to its distributed nature is difficult to measure and to calculate in an exact way its users, is not easy. Based on these arguments, the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the CNR of Pisa (IIT-CNR) has launched a project that analyzes Internet Diffusion in Italy by using the metric of domain names registered in the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) . "it". The research has permitted an analysis of Internet Diffusion at local level by taking into account broad categories of users, thus giving a first assessment of the Digital Divide in Italy.