Writings

Besides what's available at Stop! / Zona-M and more than 200 other articles already published on several Italian and international magazines (from USA and UK to India, Germany and Spain), I am the author of several essays and reports. Here is a selection of the most important/recent ones:

• Catholic Social Doctrine and the Openness Revolution: natural travel companions? (to be published in Winter 2013 by the UST Minneapolis Law School Journal. A synthesis of the paper was presented in April 2013 at this Symposium)
• Dossier for the EU JoinUp portal on (Free) Software reuse in Italian Public Administrations (June 2012)
• Three dossiers (in Italian) for the FORUMPA 2012 Conference:
  • Monitoring public tenders and conflicts of interests with Open Data
  • G-Cloud and Datacenter consolidation for (small) Public Administrations: what does it mean, why and how to do it
  • Digital divides between the current italian Public Administration and its 2.0 version
• Reports for the Laboratory of Economics Management of the S. Anna School of Advanced Studies), in the DIME Work Package 6.8:
  • Open Data: Emerging trends, issues and best practices. (June 2011, PDF)
  • Open Data Open Society (October 2010, PDF here, online version open to comments here
• (co-autor of) Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice (O'Reilly, Jan. 2010)
• the Family Guide to Digital Freedom, "the one book on software and digital technologies that no parent should ignore"

My other most important non technical articles are listed in a separate page.

I currently am an Open Source blogger at TechRepublic, a contributing editor of Linux Journal and maintain the Linux column of Pc Professionale. Whenever I can, I also write about my other great interest, backpacking.