From P2P Foundation

Bio

"I was born and live in Rome. I have a degree in Philosophy.

I have been working as journalist and researcher at different organizations. At the end of the 90s I was for two years coordinator of the Office for the Program and of the Scientific Committee for the Party of the Communist Refoundation (PRC) in Italy. From 2001 I have been the director of Transform! Italia (www.transform.it) – an autonomous center of political research - and in 2002 I helped to found Transform! Europe (www.transform-network.org), a network of foundations, institutes of research and magazine connected with the political left in Europe. (This recently became the political foundation of the European Left Party). Since the 2006 I have taken on the new new responsibility of coordinating “Lavoro in Movimento” (www.lavoroinmovimento.it) on behalf of the Italian union CGIL, of its foundation Di Vittorio and of several other structures of the union. It works developing the relationship between the social movements and the trade unions.

In recent years, I have been part of the organization of the processes of the World Social Forum (WSF) and of the European Social Forum (ESF). For several years I have represented Transform! Europe on the International Council of the WSF and I have been active regularly in the European Assembly responsible of the organization of the ESF. I also have contributed to the foundation of other European and International networks, like Euromovements; Eurotopia; The Network of the Charter for Another Europe, Networked Politics, Labor and Globalization."

Publications

Within the framework of the above networks and organizations I have coordinated several research projects and also edited or co-edited some publications. These include:

1. “World Social forum: A Debate On the Challenges for Its Future” (2003);
2. “Activist research: practice(s) to challenge the investigaction” (2005);
3. “Passive Revolution and the Re-forming of the Revolution” (2008),
4. “Knowledge Is a Common Good. The Effects of the Open Source Movement on the Development of Politics and Society” (2010).

In Italian:

1. “La Riva sinistra del Tevere - Mappe e conflitti nel territorio metropolitano di Roma” (2004); Lavoro/Conflitti (2004);
2. “Pratiche costituenti - Spazi, reti, appartenenze: le politiche dei movimenti” (2005);
3. “Parole di una nuova politica” (2007); “Networked Politics” (2007);