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  Roberto Galoppini 9:56 pm on March 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: CarloMochiSismondi, Concreta-mente, CSI Piemonte, ForumPA ( 6 ), IBM ( 2 ), Open Source Adoption ( 5 )   

  Italian Open Source Conference: Open Source in Public Administrations, Rome 1-4-2009 

  The Italian association Concreta-mente for the second year will held the Open Source in Public Administrations conference, on the 1st of April 2009 in Rome, at the LUISS Guido Carli university.

  Four different case studies of Italian public administrations using open source software and open standards will be presented. Carlo Mochi Sismondi, Forum PA General Manager, will moderate a round-table discussion with representatives from public and private sectors.

  Registration are now open.

   

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  Roberto Galoppini 10:31 pm on February 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: open source communities ( 7 ), osor ( 7 ), SzabolcsSzekacs ( 2 )   

  European Open Source Repository: OSOR goes into the Wild 2.0 

  OSOR website today launched a new section to allow users to add blog entries, create and participate in discussions or share documents and cases and assist in creating a knowledge base on their community.

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  Roberto Galoppini 12:04 pm on February 19, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: club theory, collaborative development ( 3 ), IT outsourcing, IT procurement, open source governance ( 13 ), open source licenses ( 6 ), openoffice ( 44 ), SAKAI ( 2 ), TriSano ( 2 ), VistA   

  Open Source Governance: State of the Art and Lesson Learnt in Italy (part III) 

  The lack of open source vision by the Italian government, along with attention paid by Obama to open source, brought my attention back to the importance Open Source Governance.

  I want to strive for open source adoption by national and local governments. I want to take the opportunity here to share some thoughts about why a FOSS governance is needed, and how we could accomplish the goal to use open source software to develop innovative initiatives.

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  Roberto Galoppini 11:25 am on February 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: accenture, alessandradeseneen, carlopiana ( 2 ), collaborative development ( 3 ), consorzio terin, dimdim ( 2 ), liferay, open source governance ( 13 ), pentaho, Software Selection ( 9 ), springsource ( 2 )   

  Open Source Governance: State of the Art and Lesson Learnt in Italy (part II) 

  First Monday - the famous peer-reviewed journal – recently published an interesting paper on open source collaboration in the US Public Sector, resulting probably one of the first research covering open source governance in the public sector.

  Before commenting its findings and see how and if they could be applied to the Italian situation, I wish to end to recap issues raised during the “Open Source Governance” held in Rome last October.

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  Roberto Galoppini 3:49 pm on February 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Antonio Parlato, CNIPA ( 4 ), FlorettaRolleri, Inforav, IPSEMA, LuigiNicolais ( 2 ), RobertoDiCosmo, VittorioPagani   

  Open Source Governance: State of the Art and Lesson Learnt in Italy (part I) 

  While Obama asked about the benefits of open source , the actual Italian Government shows little interest in open source, and it is time to talk back about the importance of the open source software governance.

  The “Open Source Governance” conference – organized by the Italian Institute for advanced information technology at the end of October 2009 - an Italian event dedicated to the future of open source procurement, usage and management within the Public Sector.

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  Roberto Galoppini 11:04 am on February 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: EU, Global Online Freedom Act, Internet Law, vivianereding   

  Internet Freedom: European Union Telecoms Commissioner says No Need for Internet Law 

  Viviane Reding, European Union Telecoms Commissioner, on Tuesday in a meeting in the European Parliament said that a European law to reinforce freedom on the Internet is unnecessary and put operators in a difficult position.

  Read the full transcript.

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 2:57 pm on February 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Italian Elections: Which Candidate Can you Trust? 

  Assoli, the long-live Italian association devoted to the promotion of free software, last year asked Italian candidates to sign a letter where they agree to promote the use of free software.

  Given the great results, yesterday Assoli launched a platform named “Caro Candidato” (eng: dear candidate) that will be used from now on for every Italian election.

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  Roberto Galoppini 3:58 pm on January 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Italian Petition for a National Open Source Public Administration Day 

  The Italian association Concreta-mente launched a petition for an Italian open source and open standards day.

  During the next “Open Source in Public Administration“, that will be held in Spring on the 3rd of March 2009, the petition will be presented to the Italian Minister of Public Administration and Innovation, Renato Brunetta.

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  Roberto Galoppini 3:38 pm on January 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  EU Tenders Requiring Proprietary Software, Italian Regional Laws, EUPL 1.1: European links, 25-01-2009 

  HU: Government withdraws tender requesting proprietary software – Gijs Hillenius reported on the OSOR website the news that the Hungarian Central Board for Services withdrew a software tender violating Hungary’s regulations, as it is forbidden to refer to an actual brand (via glyn moody twitter).
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  Roberto Galoppini 7:24 pm on January 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: e-government, Europe e-gov, paolozocchi, RenatoBrunetta   

  Open Source e-Government? No, thank you! by Renato Brunetta 

  Renato Brunetta, Italian Minister of Public Administration and Innovation, two days ago disclosed his plan for Innovation. Open Source is not mentioned, as well as there is no mention of cloud computing.

  The Italian e-gov plan is contained in two power-point presentations, and seems not taking in any consideration the most up-to-date trends in the ICT sector.

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    Josef Assad 9:00 am on January 24, 2009 Permalink

    Why cloud computing? How does cloud computing single itself out sufficiently to warrant explicit mention in the precise context of e-government?

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    Roberto Galoppini 11:02 am on January 25, 2009 Permalink

    Hi Josef,

    cloud computing is increasingly going to be more and more important, even if government remains skeptical about the cloud. Despite Italian thought leaders at CNIPA – the National Centre for ICT in the Public. Administrations – take part in international conversations on e-government in cloud, regional and national IT laws are ignoring the cloud.

    Tim O’Reilly says:

    that a new kind of proprietary lock-in in the cloud.But just “paying attention” to cloud computing isn’t the point. The point is to rediscover what makes open source tick, but in the new context.

    That’s why we open source and open standards advocates should be part of this process, since open source will fuel the growth of cloud computing anyway.

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    Carlo Piana 9:40 am on January 26, 2009 Permalink

    Beats me, there is no vision. One can have a bad vision, but having none is dreadful.

    “One computer in any classroom”: this morning’s buzz. For doing what? To teach how to start Word? Is that what we want our children become? Tamed monkeys?

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    Roberto Galoppini 11:39 am on January 26, 2009 Permalink

    The government is just planning to reduce costs, they don’t plan to increase vision AND efficiency. That’s probably why they don’t talk about open (source, standards) and show cases mentioned are only promoted by vendors.

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    Alex Roe 4:46 pm on April 18, 2009 Permalink

    “and seems not taking in any consideration the most up-to-date trends in the ICT sector”

    From what I’ve seen of Italian graduates over the last five years or so, not many of them are particularly up-to-date in terms of IT. Most need lessons on how to use Excel, and very few seem to know that Word can check the spelling of English words automatically. In this day and age, I find this amazing, and worrying. I hate to think how much companies in Italy have to spend on training employees in basic computer skills.

    Surely the Italian education system could devote a few hours to teaching high school students how to use Word and Excel – they would not have to invest in software either OpenOffice is free, and if you can use the open source equivalents of Word (Writer) and Excel (Calc), then using Word and Excel would be easy.

    Open source software is not popular institutionally in Italy because no money can be made from supplying it! The infamous ‘interests’ at play, one fears.

    Best,

    Alex in Milan, Italy – and an open source fan too

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    Roberto Galoppini 4:40 pm on April 21, 2009 Permalink

    Ciao Alex,

    I believe that Italian companies can make also big money from open source, QualiPSo is the living proof. Still large system integrators and solution providers are reluctant to approach open source beyond tactics, probably leaving on the table a number of opportunities.

    About schools and IT skills, there are interesting alternatives to the ECDL, like INGOT, and we could save some money approaching IT education in similar ways.