Do you want a channel to spread your ideas in Italy and in the whole world? Have not you a blog yet?! Don’t create a new one: make of Isotype your (and our) website! Without paying anything you will have a multilingual website managed by professionals. Do you have already a blog? Increase your visibility publishing on Isotype an article about information architecture, information design, free culture, free software, commons… Read more »

A community vote is now underway, hopefully one of the final steps in the process the migration of Wikipedia (actually Wikipedias, as each language is its own site, and also other Wikimedia Foundation sites) to using Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike as its primary content license.

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The Fronte popolare per la musica libera (Free music popular front), a collective of indipendent music artists, is working on the last steps of Fapper3, their indipendent distribution project, produced by Free hardware foundation, with the help of Isotype. The aim is to skip most of the intermediaries, through a direct selling to fair trade shops, fair buying groups (gas) and other realities interested to the project.

Fapper3 could be an interesting experiment also for international artists that want to distribute their works (music, videos, texts…) on the Italian market in a totally indipendent way. Read more »

Angelo Raffaele Meo writes that an approximate esteem of proprietary software licenses  (Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office etc.) in Italy, based on data from Assinform annual report is about 3 billions euros for each year.

Public administration represents almost 10% of the market, equivalent to a cost of almost 300 millions euros. A cost that would become a saving of public money if the government would choose free software.

Of course , there would be other costs, but nothing if compared to so high amounts and if we look at them as investments on our future. We challange everyone to find negative aspects in this free revolution.

At the beginning free software should be developed as new or adapted to Italian public administration needs, but this would be paid only one time and then there would be only update and upgrade costs; everyone would have access to a public common of great value; a new economy sector would be fully activated, Italian freelance professionals would be incentivated, as research and innovation in our country…

What are we waiting for? Lets ask free software to our politicans!