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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 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.

This is the talk given at the Kosova Software Freedom Conference 2009 about "E-government, digital rights, equal opportunities: how can Free Software help developing countries?". Only the PDF version is available here, due to web server space constraint. If you need the original, editable OpenDocument version just request it by email to marco . at . digifreedom dot net

The goal of the first conference about Free Software and Knowledge in Santo Domingo was to "promote and spread the philosophy of Free software, education and knowledge in the Dominican Republic, among all who are concerned about the social, economic and scientific development of Santo Domingo". In this context, I gave a talk about "Computers and Internet: sources of social exclusion or engines of education and human development?".

Besides its official website, general coverage of the event is available (in Spanish) on Hoy Digital and El Nuevo Diario.

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.