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I have participated as speaker to a summer course on Open and E-Government organized by the UIMP University of Santander, Spain. A summary of my contribution, with some additional notes, is available at Stop!/Zona-M. To download the slides, instead, click here

These are the slides of my talk on this topic at the 2010 Seminar on Open and E-Government in Santander. A summary of the talk with more links and some notes on the rest of the seminar is available at Stop!Zona-M.

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) Plugfest gathers together the most important international experts in terms of digital office documents interoperability. At the March 2010 edition in Granada I gave a talk about the proprietary traps that can be hidden inside ODF documents, preventing interoperability. I also reported in detail what happened at the Plugfest in two separate articles:

• Notes from ODF Plugfest in Granada, Day One
• Final Notes from the ODF Plugfest in Granada

Here is my talk at the 2010 ODF Plugfest in Granada (that page also contains links to all the articles I wrote about the event). If you need the editable OpenDocument version of this talk, just ask me at mfioretti, at nexaima, dot net

The Software Freedom Conference Kosova is to be a yearly event to bring together local developers and the international community. In the 2009 edition I gave a talk about how Free SW can help developing countries.

Interviews and other coverage of the conference is available at:

1. the interviews page on the official website
2. F. Marzano's report

Description of the actions taken by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of India to become, using Free Software as an essential tool, one of the most high-tech political parties in India by 2010.

Comments and suggestions about a law proposal presented by two senators of the Italian Democratic Party about NetNeutrality, Free Software and Information Society.

these are the paper and talk I wrote for the Italian National Conference on Free Software in Bologna.

1. Report from Quito: a look at Free Software and Free Knowledge among Catholics and other communities in latin America and what other Free Software advocates may learn from them
2. Report from Quito, summary

Feeback from participants to the Conference:

M. Grillini: "very interesting talk, especially when explaining localization of Free SW in Quechua, to preserve local culture, and the interest of Salesians in Free SW for ethical and cultural reasons"

(if you need the original OpenDocument versions of the paper and slides, just email me at marco, @ digifreedom . net)

Many public administrations already use open source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to let citizens look at public geographic data trough dedicated Web sites. Others use the same software to partially open the data gathering process, letting citizens directly add geographic information to the official, high-quality GIS databases by drawing or clicking on digital maps. I have covered this theme also during the congress about Free Geographic data in Pontedera.

Here is the full slideshow of my talk at the Meeting in Feltre about the Veneto regional law on pluralism in ICT. The original OpenDocument version is not available on this server only becase it is much bigger than the PDF one, but it is available on request writing at marco, at, digifreedom.net.