A Master of Empathy

From the creation of the Consorzio Gioventù Digitale to the launch of Project Grandparents on the Internet, to the transformation into the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and the creation of new technological neologisms … the Scientific Director of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, Alfonso Molina, remembers the extraordinary personality of Professor Tullio De Mauro on the Huffington Post.

The long post was written whilst flying back from Santiago, in Chile, where Alfonso Molina was when he heard the sad news of the professor’s passing away. Tullio De Mauro was President of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale from 2001 to 2011.

ANSA News Agency (in Italian): È morto Tullio De Mauro.Il celebre linguista e docente aveva 84 anni, fu anche ministro, January 5, 2017].

Saturday, January 7, 2017, Santiago-Rome Alitalia flight, 1:10 pm

Huffington Post Article (in Italian): Tullio, il tuo spirito rimarrà un esempio per tutti