I live in Milano with my wife and three childrens, and I still nourish a passionate interest for spirituality and technology.

I spent many years of my professional career to use and promote free software (free as freedom), as a cutting edge solution in business contexts. Now I'm working at Intesi Group as technology evangelist, engaged on strategy and communication.

I like to play with my childrens using funny tech "toys" like arduino, because I like to think that in the foreseeable future we all will be able to fabricate our own stuff. I also study the hebrew language, hoping a day to better understanding the Bible.

In spring 2013 I discovered the EdgeRyders initiative and the unMonastery experience on Internet, with a clear feeling of familiarity of ideas and spirit, especially when I read the great post of Alberto about  "What modern-day social innovators can learn from the life and times of St. Benedict".

Rules are really like software protocols in our organizations: I believe it becouse I experienced it many times during my professional live, in many different organizations. And when rules are soft and open like in the St. Benedict's Rule, or in the Stallman's GNU Public License, then a silent deep revolution can start.

And I believe that an other requirement is very important to trigger this kind of silent radical innovations: the device ("le dispositif" of Michel Foucault). 

Without Internet and the personal computer the free software revolution couldn't have existed. Also the Rule of St. Benedict can't be implemented without the distinctive architecture of monasteries. The architecture of the space in which we live, the design of the objects and technology we use, the hardware and the network hosting and moving our digital data: all this kind of things are devices, in which many possibility are implicitly enabled or disabled, which some constraints and some degree of freedom embedded inside.

And both, rules and devices, must be designed together, because  each one assume and involve the other.

My wife, a philosopher of education, and me, we feel the need of a place in our city area, in Milan, where is possible to organize cultural events and technological laboratories, a mental contagion space open to people and especially to children (the future is of them), where is possible to meet new ideas, makers, social innovators.

I think this aim is strongly tuned with the EdgeRyders spirit, so I joined the community.