Communia Co-ordinating Team

• Juan Carlos De Martin - Network coordinator Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Torino's Information Engineering School, where he leads the Internet Media Group, he previously spent several years at Italy's National Research Council, two years as Visiting Scholar at the University of California, and two years in Dallas as Texas Instruments technical staff member and as adjunct professor at the University of Texas. Since 2003 he has been leading the Creative Commons Italy project, and in 2006 founded NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society at the Politecnico di Torino. He is also a IEEE member and author or co-author of over ninety international scientific publications. Address: Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy Email: coordinator [at] communia-project [dot] eu Phone: +39 011 5647065 Fax: +39 011 5647216

• Federica Cedriano- Administrative and Project Manager Federica Cedriano joined the COMMUNIA coordinating team in November 2008. She works as the COMMUNIA project administrative coordinator. Federica’s main responsibilities include managing the project budget, administering the workshops and conferences organized by the project and, in general, to ensure the smooth operation of the network. Federica, who has already managed several EU-funded projects, holds a Bachelor degree in Political Science of University of Turin and she has a Post -graduate Master of first level in “Social Planning. Planning, Management and Evaluation of Social Policies”. Email: admin-communia [at] nexa [dot] polito [dot] it Phone: +39 011 564 5956 Fax: +39 011 5647216

• Melanie Dulong de Rosnay - Publication manager She is currently a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and at Science Commons. Her postdoctoral research focuses on open data policy, copyright, libraries, open access, information science. Beside teaching copyright law, she co-edited a book and worked on legal metadata and ontologies, rights expression languages, and technical standardization. Since 2003 she is Creative Commons France legal lead at CERSA University of Paris 2. Email: publications [at] communia-project [dot] eu

• Selina Fenoglietto - Administrative assistant Selina Fenoglietto joined the NEXA Center for Internet & Society in May 2009. She holds a Bachelor degree in Economics from the University of Torino. She has managed the administrative and accounting activities within the EEIG Astrale Consortium, being responsible of the Technical Assistance and of the monitoring of the Life projects. Her former experiences include the administrative management for projects funded by the European Commission, the World Bank, the Italian Foreign Office. She works, with Federica Cedriano, to manage the documentation related to the travel expenses and the administrative and accounting activities of the COMMUNIA project. Email: admin-communia [at] nexa [dot] polito [dot] it Phone: +39 011 5647217 Fax: +39 011 5647216

• Giancarlo Frosio - Chief Editor of the Final Report Giancarlo Frosio joined the COMMUNIA project in March 2010 as the project owner of the Final Strategic Report on the digital public domain.] Giancarlo is a qualified attorney with a law degree from Università Cattolica in Milan, an LL.M in information technology and telecommunications law from Strathclyde University in Glasgow, and an LL.M with emphasis in intellectual property law from Duke University in Durham, NC. He is currently completing his doctoral degree in intellectual property law at Duke University Law School under the supervision of Professor Jerome H. Reichman. His doctoral research focuses on copyright law, public domain, Internet and user based creativity, network information economy, access to knowledge (A2K), and identity politics. He is a fellow of the Nexa Research Center for Internet and Society. He is also the author of numerous legal articles and publications.

• Luca Leschiutta - System administrator After graduating in Electronic Engineering, he pursued a PhD in Information Technology at Politecnico di Torino, where he currently is a post-doc researcher in the Internet Media Group. His preferred fields have always been image compression and wireless networking. He also teaches programming and networking courses, and in the past he worked at Alenia Spazio, where he was mostly involved in the ISS project. Email: webmaster [at] communia-project [dot] eu Phone: +39 011 5647218

• Bernardo Parrella - Dissemination manager US-based freelance journalist, translator, consultant and activist on digital culture and technology matters. He is involved with several collaborative projects and publishing venues, including Apogeonline, MondoWeb, Stampa Alternativa and Global Voices Online, also as editor of its Italian version. His many (English-Italian) translations include "Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers" by Henry Jenkins (FrancoAngeli, 2008) and "Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessig (Apogeo, 2005). Email: press [at] communia-project [dot] eu

• Anna Piccitto - Event & Communications Manager Anna Piccitto joined the Nexa Center in June 2009. After a Bachelor degree in Sciences of Communication, Anna started to work in 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Committee in the Accreditation Department and successively in 2007 Turin Winter Universiade Committee as Accreditation manager. Afterwards she worked in the publishing area as editorial product controller and marketing and special event responsible. Then she improved her communication knowledge working as comunication and press office responsible for an events agency. In Nexa she is in charge of communication, press office and events. Quite precisely Anna's main responsibilities consists in keeping contact with media, following Nexa's Image and taking care of the events logistic and orgainization. Email: anna [dot] piccitto [at] polito [dot] it Phone: +39 011 5647217 Fax: +39 011 5647216

In the past staff page are listed past member of the Communia management team.