Especially during the last year, with the pandemic and lockdown, people have felt the need to have every possible kind of help at home. This also applies to keeping in touch with the outside world and continuing to work
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With the imposition of lockdown and museums and exhibitions closing their doors, we have had to reinvent ourselves in this sector too. Among virtual tours and support campaigns, however, the results from trying out digital technology have been very positive, according to a report compiled on the subject in the UK
The space economy is innovating business models and opening up experimental services in several traditional and frontier sectors, such as space mining and tourism.
A comparative survey carried out by Arup among 5,000 residents of Milan, Berlin, London, Paris and Madrid outlines the new requirements which workers have after their experience of the pandemic
According to lawyers Antonio Aloisi and Valerio De Stefano, the future of work is now decided in the area of new relationships between companies, workers and algorithms. We need a system that is focused on trust, and no longer on control.
The job of the e-commerce manager is to coordinate all the company’s departments, from customer care to data analysis, while devising the strategy and path to be followed to increase online sales. But there are no universities in Italy offering specialist courses in this subject
One year ago saw the outbreak of the pandemic in Italy. Employed, NEETs, unemployed: key trends and figures 12 months after the arrival of the virus. At least 444,000 fewer jobs
From free psychological counselling to making meeting rooms available for staff’s children: many companies have implemented extraordinary measures for their staff during the Covid pandemic. Companies’ efforts are being recognised with the “Parità virtuosa” [“Virtuous equality”] award
Paolo Landri, senior researcher at the CNR-IRPPS (National Research Council at the Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies), explains how an informed choice is required in terms of using technology-based tools which are more suitable to educational requirements, without necessarily accepting platforms that are more widely available on the market, which have been created for professionals in the field and not for schools.
From providing support in terms of patient management to preventing the spread of infection among doctors during the pandemic, to managing the heaviest and most dangerous jobs on construction sites, what is the secret behind these successful achievements? The integration between human labour and robotics.
A wise use of the data and algorithms available nowadays offers the opportunity to implement systemic changes, while measuring and restricting the environmental and social impacts of economic activities and reducing waste and negative external factors.
With its “Google certificates”, Big G has launched a new training model where skills matter above all, not so much the degree someone has. And it isn’t the only one adopting this view. Has the time actually come for us to bid farewell to dear old universities? We discussed this point with two experts
Our country should stop selling cars with diesel or petrol engines by 2035 and switch to electric cars. New skills, new professional profiles and more research will be needed
“Psychology and the Good Life”, taught by Laurie Santos at Yale, has become the most popular course in the history of the prestigious American university. Yet there is no shortage of examples in Italy as well
Software developers, engineers and computer scientists will be leading the first phase of creating a virtual reality for avatars. But eventually a detailed world will have to be created, and this will only be possible with architects, designers, mathematicians and many other professional profiles.