Networking in the new ICT curricula

New guidelines for ICT curricula have recently appeared, both in Europe and the USA. New European guidelines are sponsored by the European Commission and are a consequence of the political mandate to implement the European Higher Education Area. In the USA, new guidelines proposed by ACM/IEEE are an update of previous guidelines by those institutions, basically motivated by technological change. This paper analyzes and compares the role of networking in those new guidelines and proposes a synthesis of them.