Riccardo Iaconelli

PublicCode.yml is a decentralized standard for indexing public software developed by both public and private entities. The specification has always been an open project, but as of December 15th, it has fully transitioned to an open-governance model. Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, and Italy were the official founding countries, and we are looking for more participants to join us. In this presentation, we'll go over the technical ecosystem, current implementations, and how you can get involved - either as a Free Software project or as a government - to promote the use and development of Free Software by public entities, and how to help your Free Software project gain more adoption in public institutions.

In 2017, Italy launched a key initiative to improve public services by opening up the development of a handful of core technologies and allowing an open governance community to gather around public code. The effort resulted in the launch of two projects: Developers Italia and Designers Italia, which started a virtuous ecosystem involving administrations, businesses, and enthusiasts who want to improve public services and citizens' lives. Today, the two communities attract over 20.000 technical talents capable of contributing to their country's development and have created together hundreds of open source packages. We launched internationally at FOSDEM 2018, with the help of the Free Software community. We're returning four years later to provide updates, share lessons learned, and continue the conversation on how to make Italy the most hacker-friendly country in the world.

The Digital Transformation Team was born to build the "operating system" of the Italy, a series of fundamental components on top of which they can build simpler and more efficient services for the citizens, the Public Administration and businesses, through innovative digital products. Among the critical infrastructures, there's the way software is developed. Italy is betting hard on open practices, by not only opening the source code of the country, but also turning citizens and hackers into first-class participants of the digital transformation, giving them the power to develop and maintain software which impacts their daily life.

To sustain this switch, the Team is building hackerspaces throughout the country, to increase awareness of open practices, and is turning all developers paid with public money into open source contributors. After this talk, you will know how to "hack your government", how to participate in this change (even if you are not Italian!) and how we are working to spread this idea throughout all of Europe.

The KDE community has always strongly believed in free and open source software. Today, we are taking this mission one step further, by bringing openness to the most important intellectual production of humanity: knowledge itself. We are not alone: to ensure full-scale success we are partnering with the most prestigious research institutions and universities all over the globe.

WikiToLearn is an open platform where students, researchers and key people in the academia can create and refine notes and text books, tailored precisely to their needs, and giving them the power to customize the teaching beyond what traditional textbooks allow. Our philosophy inherits from the very foundation of how science works. We believe that “Knowledge only grows if shared” and we want learners to “Stand on the shoulder of giants!”.