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Referendum Italiani e Svizzeri: qualche considerazione
“Ogni popolo ha il governo e le leggi che si merita” Il 12 e 13 giugno gli italiani saranno chiamati a votare per 4 differenti tematiche legate alla fecondazione, nascita, ricerca scientifica. In...
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Parlamento pulito
Chi è stato condannato in via definitiva non deve più sedere in Parlamento. Un parlamentare non può rappresentare i cittadini se è stato condannato dalla Giustizia Italiana in via definitiva. E se la...
View ArticleAvatopia: planning a community for non-violent societal action
[url] Young teenagers are as concerned as ever about changing society and their own situation, even though they turn their backs on organised politics in favour of one-issue organisations and other...
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Sprol: negative eco-tourism from orbit
Sprol shows the visual macroscopic effects of the decisions and behavior of our society. Since previous generations have not had the advantage of this perspective it is our obligation to use it...
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shame on the italian government
(Here we are … once again) The Italian Government fired Carlo Rubbia, president of the ENEA (Italian Institute for Alternative Energies) and Nobel prize for physics. The origin of the fight was an...
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Rise of the Plagiosphere
Interesting article on Technology Review on a new metaphor on our virtual surroundings: the plagiosphere. According to the author, new technologies are causing a shift in our mental ecology, one that...
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citizen power
Recently I registered an increasing interest on the subject of citizen journalism: the Globe and Mail, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Guardian and Columbia Journalism Review (among others). I “strongly”...
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Bagdad’s museum before the war
mms://mediaserver.kataweb.it/repubblica/spett_e_cult/2005/museo01.wmv
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topten.ch
Topten is a website sponsored by the WWF, which contains a list of available products that are considered compatible with the pollution of the environment. For each product is listed the price, the...
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Tout Rennes blogue
This project really thrills me. The idea is to give to the citizen of a city a place where to share their idea about the places of the city. Here they can collect their impressions, stories,...
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End of armed campaign in Northern Ireland
I worked in Ireland for two years and a half, I visited Belfast many times. It was a plagued city. I have to admit that this news astonished me, but at the same time the more I thought about it the...
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Chronically poor populations
The Chronic Poverty Centre has published a Chronic Poverty Report, which measures chronic poverty as the amount of people who spend most or all of the time in destitution, i.e. on an income of less...
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Anamorphosis maps of traveling time in Europe
Reposting from Pasta&Vinegar these amazing maps. Those anamorphosis maps shows the rail travel times in Europe. Taken from Spiekermann, K. and M. Wegener. 1996. Trans-European Networks and Unequal...
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w la ricerca
Today I managed to see this TV documentary titled: “w la ricerca”. The outcome is an image of Italy’s research as the “Sick man of the world”! Brain drain is just the head of the iceberg. An in-depth...
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Filter: citizen journalism
Microsoft launches a service for letting people build their own information. It is called filter. MSN Filter is your one-stop shop for the inside scoop on what’s happening across the Web, according to...
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Cina ban satellite TV
Cina’s government has blocked authorization for satellite TV broadcasts from foreign countries. A control will be applied to the transmissions to verify that they are compliant with government’s...
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Italy’s brain drain
Fabien pointed me to this article on Italy’s brain drain. It is an article of 2001. It is funny to see how things didn’t change at all during the last years. Sad … Tags: politics, society
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Vanishing Point
The goal of this project is to decipher the world that news media reconfigures and to observe if media coverage, or lack thereof, is creating a new cartography. Vanishing Point consists of a map of...
View ArticleFazio and Antonveneta: a sad Italian story
For those of you that happen to read Italian, here is a pdf containing the transcript of the conversation between Fazio, governor of Bankitalia and Giampiero Fiorani and wife on the Antonveneta issue....
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Spinach home
Matthew Coates and Tim Meldrum projected an apartment that goes right to the core fundamentals of the Cradle to Cradle principles. Not only does the building run a photosynthetic and phototropic skin...
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Politics and laughing
Jeff Israely wrote an article on Time about one of my preferred italians: Beppe Grillo. He was mentioned as one of the 2005 European Heroes. In the article, the author makes a review of his career,...
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Augmenting Furniture to support Human Activity
I was baking a fresh piece of bread on this augmented Kitchen a couple of years ago with my friend Jofish. It was cool to see how new technologies could support human activities to make cooking...
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The Italian Bridge and our politicians
Today I am feeling sad because I realized that intelligence doesn’t belong to our politic group. First, they are still pushing this story of the bridge between Calabria and Sicily, which is an amazing...
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Power Map
Prompted by Andrea Gaggioli, I started looking for this kind of strategic consulting software that would allow to track and visualize the links between people and companies. Nicolas found this one...
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low-costs revenue margins
I found this interesting information on Beppe Grillo’s blog. It is an official document by Ryanair summarizing the revenue margins for different companies where Alitalia is taken as the lowest point...
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A nice example of democracy: voting with an SMS
Voting with an SMS is a very simple and yet powerful idea that enables lots of people to express themselves on current political decisions and issues. It is easy to implement and it is costless for...
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Public Private Matters: a web application for supporting active citizenry
The Public Private Matters project set out to explore the possibility of creating a web application that would allow young people to engage with issues of power, citizenship and politics. It was...
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Clean Up Parliament!
Beppe Grillo and thousands of others Italians (including me) have bought a page on the International Herald Tribune to inform about and protest against the 23 members of the parliament that have been...
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Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005
According to Global Exchange (full text here), an NGO that promotes social, economical and environmental justice, corporations carry out some of the most horrific human rights abuses of modern times....
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Coal, China, and India: A Deadly Combination for Air Pollution?
I found this great portal of the World Watch institute, which is an independent research organization that works for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society by providing compelling,...
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They Rule!: a social visualization tool of the US ruling class
They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class. It takes as its focus the boards of some of the most powerful U.S. companies, which share many of the same...
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Some counterintuitive facts about Italian’s economy
This is just a short note with which I want to summarize some interesting facts about Italian economics that are quite shocking to me, as a native Italian. This post was prompted by two amazing...
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Hotel Rwanda
I watched this movie last night and I have to say that it jumped directly into my ‘Top10′ list. Besides being extremely well done, it gave me strong emotions about what those people may have lived...
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OhmyNewsInternational: participatory citizen journalism
I first heard of OMNI at LIFT. Then I stumbled across the web site and I started reading some news. I have to say that this is the model I had in mind when posting and thinking about citizen...
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Making visual your consumptions
Finally I found some time to skim through my blogroll. One of the blog I like to stop by is, of course, infoaesthetics which pointed me on two great project that should be highlighted on the list of...
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Vertical axes wind turbine
An elegant vertical-axis wind turbine, quietrevolution has been designed and developed by XCO2, an established low-carbon energy consultancy and engineering practice. Virtually silent and vibration...
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Ministers back ‘terminator’ GM crops
Reading BeppeGrillo.it I realized of this plan to scrap prohibition on seeds that threaten Third World farmers with hunger: Ministers are trying to scrap an international agreement banning the world’s...
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Italia in fumo: raising awareness through public displays
Fortunately there are Italians like Antonio Scarponi around. They represent the genius and the creativity of some of us against the barbarian disgrace that Italy is living in this period. His latest...
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The relationship between money and politics explained
The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. The Center...
View ArticleThe ecological cost of the war
Paolo pointed me to this nice post (in Italian) that aims at outlining some costs sustained for the war in Iraq and how these money could have been spent for something different. Personally I buy the...
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Metacarta: a geographic search web engine
This is something I was thinking about for quite some time. This portal allows the user to browse and search the content of several news feeds that are displayed attached to a world map. At a glance...
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Gutenkarte: a geographic text browser
Gutenkarte is a geographic text browser, intended to help readers explore the spatial component of classic works of literature. Gutenkarte downloads public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, and...
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Geographic ubiquitous search: a connection of virtual and phisical
Geographic search is becoming an hot topic in the blogosphere and in research. One of the typical scenario: If you stand on a street corner in Tokyo today, you can point a specialized cellphone at a...
View ArticleWhat kind of peace do I mean?
The text below is an excerpt from the commencement address at the American University that the President John F. Kennedy gave on June 10th 1963 in Washington DC. I found it extremely inspiring and...
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>node< new orientations for democracy in europe
An interesting research project from the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture: The ongoing process of European integration and in particular the planned enlargement of the European...
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Propose a law by SMS
A new initiative by Israel’s parliament will soon allow every Israeli citizen to share his or her proposal for new legislation by cellular phone text messaging. This seems to me an excellent idea to...
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Encouraging Participatory Democracy: A Study of 30 Government Websites
Reading through the experientia web site I stumbled upon this article wrote by Michele Visciola and Mark Vanderbeeken on a broad evaluation of the usability of the e-government web sites. I find this...
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Tradenet: farmers using SMS to make business in Africa
While doing my blogroll I was attracted by this news on Africans farmers using SMSs to make business. Tradenet, is a website developed in Ghana with an 11 million-dollar USAID support. It is intended...
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Dutch city launches iPhone app for lodging civic complaints
This reminds me of FixMyStreet a project I blogged about three years ago. As my fellow readers know I really much like these sorts of application to engage citizen in a more active engagement with...
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Draquila: Italy trembles
Today I am happy: Draquila, the movie, was presented at Cannes festival: http://bit.ly/bKBTIg looking forward to seeing it. Why do Italians vote Berlusconi? The violence of propaganda, the impotence of...
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