About Us
The Telematics Freedom Foundation was set up to bring in the age of telematics, Internet, mobile phones and the web, all those freedoms and rights that the Free Software Movement has already brought to PC users worldwide.
To achieve this purpose, we promote the consolidation and widespread adoption of models for development and deployment of telematic services which are under the full control of their users. We are also developing software for remote democratic organization, which will constitute a touchstone for the model of production, sharing and full control outlined by the idea of Telematics Freedom we are defending.
RUFO GUERRESCHI
Founder and Director
He completed his education through graduate programs in public affairs and IT at Princeton and Rutgers Universities (1998-1999).
He has held (1999-2001) executive technical and commercial positions at advanced server-side software providers, such as 4thpass in New York and Urban Data Solutions in Seattle, USA. While there, he managed web-application projects and then led the world-wide pre-sale, sale and technical deployment of multi-million dollar web-based software solutions for global mobile operators such as Vodafone, Telefonica, DoCoMo, etc.
He founded and managed ParTecs - Participatory Technologies (2002-2007), a company which deployed social networking telematics systems based on free and open source software over three continents, with research and development facilities in Pune and Bangalore, India.
As CEO of Tecnoconsult International, a group of real estate development companies controlled by his family, he is leading a project for a multifunctional complex of 60-100,000 square meters centered on audiovisual media, internationalization, ICT and innovation, located 5 minutes from Rome.
Being a longstanding international political activist in the field of global democratization, he worked for several NGOs in the area and later founded the Telematics Freedom Foundation, based in Rome.
Founder and Public Relations Director
As Journalist, he worked with Il Sole24ore, La Repubblica, Liberazione newspapers, he worked also as essay author: "Hacktivism. La libertà nelle maglie della rete" and also wrote the subject for a RaiTre TV documentary: "Revolution OS II", the first italian movie about open source.
He is a Cognitive Psychologist, theaches Computer-Mediate Communication at Università di Roma La Sapienza since 2003. He is a Member of the Commission for Open Source promotion of the Province of Rome promoted by Culture and Communication Department of the Province. He is a Member of the permanent Committee for copyright for Italian Minister of Cultural Affairs.
He is an expert in Public Relations and was the creator and now manager of the portal Culturalazio.it, he works for CNIPA - the National Center for Computer Science in the Pubblic Administration.
GIOVANI SPAGNOLO
Program Director
Giovani Spagnolo graduated in Computer Science from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Porto Alegre - Brazil, with an Executive MBA in Strategic Enterprise Management from the University of São Paulo (USP). He wrote several articles on ICT/Free Software for the Entrepreneurs Academy Portal, and he is one of the founders and activists behind the Free Software movement in Brazil, having participated in the organization of Latin America's biggest Forum on Free Software (FISL), held annually in Porto Alegre.
Giovani started his career back in 1998, in Porto Alegre, working for PROCERGS, the data processing company for the state of Rio Grande do Sul. With solid experience in planning and analysis of web projects, he later founded his own Free Software company called WebYES! and moved to Rome to coordinate a Digital Inclusion project promoted by the Digital Youth Consortium and the Municipality of Rome.