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Why every citizen should read the Open Government book
Open Government - Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice is a book (DISCLAIMER: I’m one of the authors, see below) that explains how governments and local Public Administrations can use digital technologies to work more efficiently, save lots of taxpayers money and let citizens control what public officers are actually doing. Why is something like this very important for all citizens? Because, as I already explained in the Online Loser Guide, digital technologies and the Internet can be either a huge help to make real democracy happen, or just a new, more powerful system for centralized control.
File formats, alphabets and public money: did you know that...
File formats are the rules that define the meaning of all the sequences of bits that you can find inside a computer file.
A family's experience with Free Software, the Internet and autism
Ubuntu is a computer operating system alternative to Windows, but free of license costs and well suited to families and schools. When I read this message on the mailing list for Ubuntu Italian users:
When and how can Free Software really save public money?
A few days ago, during an email conversation about efficient public services and waste of money in Public Administrations, I had to answer a couple of questions. Since those answers may interest many other people, here they are.
Disappointed (so far) by Italian Open Legislation experiment
In may 2009 I announced on the P2P Foundation blog what I believe is the first collaborative law writing experiment in Italy: