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A study on the diffusion of the ECDL certification in the Italian universities under the CampusOne funding scheme

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L’articolo presenta lo stato dei progetti di certificazione delle abilità nell’uso delle tecnologie informatiche svolti dagli Atenei Italiani, evidenziandone gli aspetti salienti, l’evoluzione e le principali linee di tendenza. L’articolo presenta anche il punto di vista di un campione di studenti che hanno ottenuto la certificazione ECDL nel corso della loro carriera universitaria.

EUCIP (EUropean Certification of Informatics Professionals) is a pan-European qualification scheme for people entering the IT profession and for IT professionals wishing to assess their professional development. This paper presents the experiences of the Italian Universities in the framework of the EUCIP programme. We illustrate both the institutional perspective of the Universities and the personal perspective of a set of students who received the EUCIP Core level certification during their University studies. The results of our investigations have shown a good interest of the Universities towards the EUCIP programme. Students in general recognize the importance of this certification for their future professional career and show a good interest in improving their certified knowledge and competences.

Following recent studies and analysis conducted about Business Models for DMSs, this paper aims at discussing the interrelationships between destinations’ configurations, business models, and architectural strategy for DMS platforms. In particular this work draws on recent attempts aimed at matching DMS business models design with specific characteristics of target destinations, to extend the same considerations towards the identification of the appropriate technological architectures and enabling software applications. In this aim a framework for selecting the appropriate DMS architecture is presented. The result of this analysis will thus lead to the identification of a set of technological architectures according to the different configurations that a destination might present.

Destinations differ in the modalities of coordination and collaboration, the intensity of interactions, local tourism supply organization and skill set, technological structure, and more in general, on the e-Readiness the entire system. Those features may affect the viability and success of Destination Management Systems. So, this paper argues that for a successful embarkation in e-Business, the choice and design of DMS Business models should be aligned to destination peculiar characteristics. In this aim a theoretical framework for the identification of DMS business models suitable to the different destinations configurations is presented. The conclusions will show as this framework is not static, but it follows and represents an evolutionary e-business implementation pattern for destinations.