The Dutch government is showing the way to go: the Minister for Foreigng Trade Frank Heemskerk opened the now famous ODF Plugfest saying that a joint course of action for developing effective ODF support in each other’s products is needed.
Last week the Italian government announced a joint effort with Sun Microsystems to foster the use of StarOffice by local public administrations, but the press release doesn’t mention either ODF or open standards. Improvements are needed, the lack of a European coherent strategic vision towards standards’ compliance.
Continue reading ‘An ODF Plugfest a Day Take the Doctor Away’
OpenOffice.org keeps doing well in Italy, the OpenOffice.org Italian Association announced that OpenOffice.org in Italy broke the four millions mark in less than 6 months, a growth of more than 196% compared with the previous year.
Italo Vignoli, PLIO’s president, said:
In Italy OpenOffice.org downloads exceeded the number of PC sold, steadily growing at an amazing rate.
Funambol and JAJAH, the global IP communications company, today announced the world premiere of the new Go JAJAH service, to be launched exclusively in Italy.
The new service automatically updates a mobile phone address book, creating a local number for each international number, allowing callers to make international calls at local rates.
Continue reading ‘Funambol + JAJAH: Open Source SaaS in Action’
Assinform - the Italian association of Information & Communication Technology companies - will present on the 26 of June the first Italian Information Technology report 2009.
The report covers Italian IT market’s structure and evolution, summarizing results after surveying 1000 companies. The report compares also the Italian IT market with the most active European IT markets, and analyzes differences among Italian regions (Lombardia, Emilia Romagna, Lazio and others).
Registrations are now open.
The Italian Institute for Policy Innovation launched a petition to ask the Italian senators to prevent the approval of the new obligation provision equating bloggers to journalists.
The bill 1415A, already discussed and approved by the Chamber of Deputies, if approved also by the Italian Senate would require Italian bloggers to rectify eventual mistakes within 48 hours (fines goes up to 12,500 euros).
Sign the petition and spread the word.
Related blog posts (Italian):
Ernesto Belisario (author of the petition)
Guido Scorza (Italian Institute for Policy Innovation)
Punto Informatico (on line Italian magazine)
The 2009 edition of Mind the Bridge has been open since May 25th, entrepreneurs have time until August 25th to send their business plan.
“Mind the Bridge”, now at its third edition, has renewed its blog, featuring a number of tips and hints for tomorrow’s innovators, included topics as how to write a business plan and advice for entrepreneurs.
Italian MEPs of the past legislation are told to be the best paid for least work, for sure was not easy to build fruitful relationships with most of them about digital freedom issues.
Newly-elected Italian MEPs are not much interested into these matters, only six of them actually signed the Caro Candidato Campaign (part of the “free software pact” initiative).
Marco Cappato, one of the most active on those issues, is out because his party is below the 4% threshold.
Capture creativity - the video webchat series organized by the American Embassy in Rome to learn from success stories of first generation entrepreneurs - today at 3 PM will be presenting the last webchat, featuring Marco Marinucci (Google, “Mind the Bridge” founder).
Continue reading ‘Italian Startups: Capture Creativity Last Webchat’
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