Italy

Italian developments are covered in our Italian-Language section. You may want to read: Interview with Cosma Orsi - Italian translation

Also check out the Delicious Tag P2P-Italy

1. Intervista con Michel Bauwens - Il Potere della Rete [1]. Michel Bauwens interviewed by Tiziana Terranova.
2. Michel Bauwens: "L'Avvenire è Peer-to-Peer". Articolo pubblicato su Chips&Salsa-Il Manifesto del 16 maggio 2009 [2]

Blogs

Italian blog on Web.x developments at http://blog.mytech.it/

Gnuband Italy at http://www.gnuband.org/, "covers Trust, Social Software, Recommender Systems, Free Software, ICT4D and much more"

Books

• Networking. The Net as Artwork. Tatiana Bazzichelli. Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University.

URL = http://www.networkingart.eu/english.html

The book describes the evolution of the Italian hacktivism and net culture from the 1980s till today and it is a reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy and of the Italian hacker community.

Conferences

1. Hackmeeting, http://www.hackmeeting.org%2Findex.php%3Flang%3Den
2. Linux Day, http://www.linuxday.it%2F
3. Software Libero, http://www.confsl.org%2F
4. Copyleft Festival, http://www.copyleftfestival.net%2F
5. Creative Commons Festival, http://www.ccfestival.org%2F
6. End Summer Camp Hackers Meeting, http://www.endsummercamp.org%2F
7. Free Image Festival, http://www.freeimagefestival.org%2F

Research

Italian thesis on Open Peer to Peer Design, by Massimo Menichinelli, at [3]