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Sorin Adam Matei

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Tag: European Union

March 6, 2014

Crimean Parliament votes joining Russian federation, referendum in 10 days might significantly escalate crisis

 While the news flow focuses on what the US or EU leaders did or did not do to prevent the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the crisis suddenly deepened with the Crimean Parliament’s announcement that this autonomous province of Ukraine will join the Russian Federation.…

December 11, 2011

US’ China dreams may now be a chimera

The first 10 years of Chinese membership in WTO and of trade with the US at almost no import/export tarrifs: Chinese rural poverty rate declined from 10 to 3% US families could spend an extra $600 a year on cheaper goods US…

December 9, 2009

SIBIS – European levels of Digital Literacy

Digital Literacy: Index value in age groups Top 5 European countries ordered by digital literacy levels (2003) Denmark UK Finland Austria Spain Data is quite old, I was wondering what does it look like today? Sources: SIBIS GPS 2002, SIBIS GPS-NAS 2003…

December 9, 2009

SIBIS – Measuring European Information Society

Image via Wikipedia European Union has developed a number of socially conscious frameworks for spurring on adoption and implementation of information technologies in all fields of life. This is especially important as Europe is extremely diverse, covering IT landscapes as diverse as…