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The Italian Linux Day, which takes place every year in October, is a series of events organized by all the Linux User Groups of Italy to promote Linux and Free Software in General. This year I participated to the event in Rome to explain why Linux and Free Software aren't just about software. You can read a very short report of the 2009 Linux Day in Rome at Stop!/Zona-m.

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

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

Open letter about the Italian Law 62/01 on Internet and Freedom of Press/Publishing, originally re-published on the Interlex website because "raising issues of considerable interest in the "Internet and the Press" context"

My talk (PDF) about the relationships among human rights, cultural diversity, environment and ICT to the volunteers of the VIS NGO. The original full version in OpenDocument format isn't on this server only because it's ten times bigger than the PDF one. If you want a copy or want to discuss these themes, just write to marco, at digifreedom dot net.

This is simply a short interview about these themes, included in the April 17th edition of the italian Passpartu talk show hosted by Marzia Coronati of Amisnet.

Very short synthesis: I explained how and why, in my opinion, migrants use the Internet to stay in touch with their home countries; how Free Software can help to accomplish this goal; and why today's Internet can't really do much to stop atrocities like those of 1994 in Rwanda, but could help a lot to make sure such things don't happen in the future.

Marzia interviewed on the same theme Cameroon writer Fonju Ndemesah Fausta, author of "The Radio and the Machete", an essay on the role of media in the Rwanda genocide, and Federico Marchini, the only Italian journalist present in Rwanda in 1994.

A text synthesys and a full Mp3 version of the whole show (both in Italian) are available for download on the Amisnet website.

It will also be broadcast via satellite for one week between 7am and 7:30 am, starting 2009/04/18 on the global mir station, hotbird 13 satellite.

Some of the FM italian radios which broadcast Amisnet productions will also air the show during the following week.

On Monday, april 20th, 2009 at 8pm, VIS hosts a meeting on a very particular topic which is becoming more and more important: the correlation between all cultures - in a multicultural and intercultural perspective - and individual rights in a society in which the Internet has given us new freedoms but has also created new forms of exclusion. These issues will be explained by Marco Fioretti.

An edited summary of two email conversations which took place among a few subscribers of the p2p-research mailing list during spring of 2008 about the applicability of P2P development models to physical objects and infrastructures.

Talk, including practical examples, given at the Pontedera Congress, about how free, open GIS software can be used to open the very creation and management of GIS public services, and how such processes can minimize costs and increase mutual support between citizens and their Public Administrations