About Us
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. Since 2004 he works with planning and user interface for e-Participation and e-Democracy web based applications. Since 2007 he works as the Program Director for the Telematics Freedom Foundation.
Advisory Board
MARCO BARULLI
Marco Barulli is a passionate technology consultant and an inspired entrepreneur, now working with Civic Actions as a project manager.
Marco began his Internet career in the late '90s. He co-founded and led two Internet startups: eXtrapola.com, a provider of online media monitoring services and, more recently, Clipperz.com, an online password manager that demonstrates how you shouldn't give up privacy and security for the convenience of using a web applications.
Marco was a member of the board of directors of Rimini Fiera SpA, one of Italy's top exhibition and conference venues and a leading organizer of trade and consumer fairs. He still has an interest in the exhibition and publishing sector being the Chairman of TTG Italia SpA a 40-people company owned by Rimini Fiera active in the travel market.
Marco has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Bologna.
GIOVANNI FRANZA
Active since the late 70s as a consultant in the EDP world, participated in the definition of various systems in the field of Networks and System Integration. His experiences range from statistical management of production lines (Simmenthal) to the integration of "Centri Unici di Prenotazione Ambulatoriale" (Centers for outpatient booking - magenta) and text retrieval systems (Mondadori and Periodici San Paolo).
Giovanni currently deals with security issues in non-homogeneous environments through open source solutions. Collaborates with the Studio Informatico Cabrini and Franza, following consulting activities in IT systems and security, but also integration activities between PC and embedded systems.
Wrote several introductory books on operating systems and the office suite in collaboration with Marina Cabrini. Coordinates the italian workgroup defining IT Administrator certification within the EUCIP project, run by AICA.
EMMANUELE SOMMA
Emmanuele 'exedre' Somma is a graduate in Engineering from the University of Pisa and specializes in telecommunications at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He is an employee for the research center of an Italian Financial Authority and works as support engineer on economic and statistical software.
He sold his first program in 1985 and follows the amateur Italian telematics movement since 1988. In 1993 he was chairman of what will be the first company to market a software product under the GPL license in Italy. He founded and directed, since 1999, Linux Magazine Italy, and is currently one of the main leaders of the Italian GNU/Linux communities. In November 2000 in the role of a "producer and consumer of free software" has complained about BSA television spot "Copying software is a crime!" to the Italian Antitrust Authority, and obtained from the Jury the spot censorship because "misleading advertising and exploitation of fear and uncertainty".
Somma is founder and coordinator of ROSPA, the Open Source Software in the Public Administration Network, is a Fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe and maintains his site at www.exedre.org. He was also a lead developer for the Media Peer project at Radio Radicale.