Organization of conferences, workshops, events

Chair of the Wikimania Steering Committee since 2017 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee.

2025

Wikidata and Research, 5-6/06/2025. Chair of the scientific committee.
Graphs & Networks Conference 2025, Graphs and Networks in the Humanities, Biographies, Accademia di Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Mendrisio, Switzerland, 12-14/02/2025. Member of the scientific committee.

2022

GLAMHack Ticino 2022: 8th Swiss Open Cultural Hackathon in collaboration with the SUPSI in Mendrisio, Mendrisio, 04-05/11/2022. Curator in collaboration with Giovanni Profeta. https://opendata.ch/events/glamhack2022/.

2021

Wikimania 2021. Participation in the design and in the selection of the COT Core Organizing Team and Introduction video for the event, online, 13-17/08/2021. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2021.

2020

Open Data and Open Maps for Heritage Protection, Castelgrande, Bellinzona, Switzerland, 21/02/2020 in collaboration with Ticino Canton.
itwikicon. Participation in the organising team, online, 24-15/10/2000. Affiliation: volunteer. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ItWikiCon/2020.

2019

Smart Villages: Un concetto intelligente. Seminario di confronto dedicato ai territori montani, organization by ERSAF Ente regionale per i servizi all’agricoltura e alle foreste in collaboration with Ecomuseo delle Grigne, Esino Lario, Italy, 25/10/2019.
Giornata di formazione Open Science, DEASS, Lugano 24/10/2019.

2018

2017

Workshop Wikidata SUPSI, chapter 1, 6-10/02/2017.
Workshop Wiki SUPSI – Chapter 2, 4-6/04/2017.
Literature and sources about African cities and open access, workshop, University of Basel, 28/06/2017. Documentation.

2016

Wikimania Esino Lario, 21-28/06/2016. Lead of Wikimania Esino Lario, the 2016 Wikipedia and Wikimedia world conference on the Alps with 1368 participants in a mountain village of 761 inhabitant. Project concept and general responsible. Affiliation: volunteer. Support of Wikimedia Foundation, Cariplo Foundation and Italian and Swiss partners.

2015

2012

Training Course for Wikipedians in Residence (Corso per Wikipediani in residenza), promoted by lettera27 Foundation in collaboration with Wikimedia Italia, March-May 2012. Training course curated by Remulazz; scientific director Iolanda Pensa.
Workshop Mobile A2K: Culture and Safety in Africa. Developing a Methodology Guide, i2a International Institute for Architecture, Vico Morcote, Switzerland, 10-14/03/2012, curator of the workshop with Roberto Casati and coordinated by Davide Fornari.
https://osf.io/t8f9g/
Share Your Knowledge, Festival del cinema africano, dell’Asia e dell’America Latina, Milano, 25/03/2012.

2011

Share Your Knowledge, promoted by lettera27 Foundation, Fondazione Cariplo and Careof/DOCVA, Milano, 20/04/2011, 25/05/2011, 14/06/2011. Three meetings and training sessions addressing cultural institutions on access to knowledge and knowledge sharing, Creative Commons and Wikipedia.
Planning Cultural and Environmental projects: Training Course First Level (Ideare progetti culturali e ambientali. Corso di formazione di base), Liceo Scientifico Grassi, Lecco, 09/05/2011. Co-curator of the basic course on project planning and management.

2010

Mobile A2K Access to Knowledge, promoted by lettera27 Foundation, Festivaletteratura, Mantova, 11-12/09/2010. Scientific director of the three two-days’ events of the conference programme; moderator of the conference with Rasheed Araeen.
WikiAfrica Workshop, Libreria Griot, Roma, 06/10/2010. Collaboration with Libreria Giot in the concept, structure and implementation of the workshop.
Mobile A2K Access To Knowledge Afrofantasy Workshop, Swiss Design Network Conference, 29/10/2010. Co-curator with Davide Fornari.
https://osf.io/hfy9m/

2008

Mobile A2K Access to Knowledge: Resources, Interfaces and Contents on Urban Transformations, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Bellagio, October 2009. Curator of the conference in collaboration with Roberto Casati.
https://osf.io/kq9ja/

2007

Thinking About the SUD, promoted by iStrike Foundation, Rotterdam, 27-28/01/2007. Co-curator of the meeting orgazed in the Netherlands to prepare the SUD-Salon Urbain de Douala of 2007.
WikiAfrica Douala, promoted by doual’art in collaboration with lettera27 Foundation, organized during the Ars&Urbis International Workshop, Douala, Camerun, 03-17/03/2007. Co-curator and project manager.
Ars&Urbis International Workshop, promoted by doual’art in collaboration with iStrike Foundation, Douala, Camerun, 03-17/03/2007. Co-curator of the workshop and collaboration in the project management and implementation.
WikiAfrica Workshop, promoted by lettera27 Foundation, Festivaletteratura, Mantova, 7-9-/09/2007. A series of conferences that produce live Wikipedia articles.