San Giovanni a Teduccio, a downtrodden suburb of Naples, is a far cry from Silicon Valley. The crumbling apartment buildings, the walls covered in either graffiti or church death notices, and the ubiquitous clotheslines hung outside people's windows do not leave the impression that the neighbourhood is a centre for high technology.

And yet it is this spot – a corner of the sprawling city of Naples that never quite recovered after a major food-packing factory shut its doors in the 1980s – where the Apple chief executive, Tim Cook, and the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, hope the best and brightest young minds in the world will come to develop into leaders in the new app economy.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/