Federico Morando

Curriculum Vitae
Federico Morando
Personal
Information
Address
Mobile
E-Mail
Website
Nationality
Date of Birth
Gender
Marital Status
Via Onorato Vigliani, 25/4, 10135 Turin (Italy) personal address
c/o Celi srl, Via S. Quintino, 31, 10121 Turin (Italy) business address
+39 339 7507974
[email protected]
http://nexa.polito.it/people/fmorando
Italian
27/04/1980
Male
Married
Education
Nov 2005 / Nov 2009
Ph.D.
Oct 2005 – June 2005
Master
Sept 1999 – May 2004
University
Apr 2003 – June 2003
University
July 2002
University
Sept 1994 – July 1999
Undergraduate
Turin Univ. (IT) & Univ. van Gent (BE)
Ph.D. in “Institutions, Economics and Law” (in English). Double Degree Programme, under
the co-supervision of Prof. Marco Ricolfi (Turin) and Prof. Ben Depoorter (Gent). Final
judgement: “outstanding quality”.
MPSE (Toulouse - FR)
Master Degree (DEA) in “Economic Theory and Econometrics” (in English).
Università Bocconi (Milan - IT)
Degree in “Economic, Statistical and Social Sciences (CLE)” (in Italian; 4 years laurea,
equivalent to 300 ECTS credits). Final grade: 110/110 cum Laude.
ESSEC (Cergy and Paris - FR)
Exchange student (MBA courses in French and English).
Universidad De La Habana (La Avana - CU)
Campus Abroad (company visits and course in English).
Liceo “E. Amaldi” (Novi Ligure, AL - IT)
“Maturità Classica” (secondary school degree). Final grade: 98/100.
Working
Activities
Jan 2016 - on
Jan 2016 – on
Dec 2008 - on
Dec 2015 – on
Jan 2013 – Dec 2015
Dec 2008 – Dec 2012
Dec 2007 – Dec 2008
May 2013 - on
Dec 2008 - on
Dec 2012 - on
Dec 2007 – Dec 2012
Sept 2010 – on
Feb 2007 - on
Mar 2008 - on
Feb 2007 – Mar 2008
May 2004 – Apr 2011
Sept 2007 – Apr 2011
A.y. 2006-2007
A.y. 2005-2006
May 2004 – July 2005
June 2007 - July 2007
Oct 2012
Federico Morando’s
CV and Publications
Synapta Srl
Co-founder, President and CEO
Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino (DAUIN)
Fellow
Director of Research & Policy and Research Fellow.
Managing Director and Research Fellow
Fellow
Erasmus Mundus Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D.) Degree in Law, Science and Technology
Lecturer
Creative Commons
Public lead of the Italian working group
Member of the Italian working group
World Intellectual Property Organization LL.M (Turin)
Lecturer
International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (IJCLP)
Associate Editor
Assistant Editor
Institute of Comparative Law (IDC) Bocconi
Adjunct Professor of Advanced Intellectual Property Law (MSc degree) and Industrial and
Intellectual Property Law (undergr.).
Adjunct Professor of Competition law (MSc degrees in Law and in Econ. and Social
Sciences) and Advanced Intellectual Property Law
Teaching assistant in “Advanced Intellectual Property Law ”
Junior Research Fellow
Bocconi Transatlantic IP Summer Academy, Milan
Lecturer: “Software protection: Copyright vs/and/or Patent law” and
“IPRs and Competition rules”
Other teaching/training activities
“Law & Economics of Open Data” within the “BIG DIVE” course organized by Top-IX et. al
Sept 2011
e.g., Oct 2013
webinars, etc.
one day seminar on “Open Data & Open Innovation”, within the Homer European project
awareness and dissemination activities related with Creative Commons Italia
(e.g., annual semianr of the Associazione MuseImpresa).
e.g., Formez webinars for dati.gov.it.
Language Skills
Italian
English
French
native speaker.
fluent (TOEFL 277/300, 6/6 writing).
fluent (Diplôme de Français des Affaires 1er Degré, “très bien”).
Computer Skills
Good knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows OS. “ECDL” (2002).
Good knowledge of econometric packages: Stata, SPSS, Eviews, SPAD.
Deep knowledge of Ms Office package. “ECDL Advanced” –Excel, Word- (2003).
Basic Web-editing (HTML and PHP) skills; basic Python programming.
Students’s
support
From 2010 -on
July 2009 – Jan. 2010
World Intellectual Property Organization LL.M (Turin)
tutored eight students writing their final papers.
Università Bocconi (Milan - IT)
tutored the thesis of Mr. Guido Russi (then MSc with Distinction at Oxford), whose work
was published on the Int'l L. & Mgmt. Rev., 7, 103.
Sports, Hobbies
and Other
Activities
1997 - 2009
From 2003 - on
2002
2000 - 2001
Federico Morando’s
CV and Publications
Cycling; Basketball. Amateur numismatist (ancient coins); aquarist; role playing gamer.
Co-author of the role playing game (RPG) system “SwORD”, presented at LudicaMente
Mantova 2004 (& 2008) and released under CC license.
Author of numismatics & ancient history articles for www.forumancientcoins.com.
Translator from French to Italian some adventures for the RPG “Tiers Age”.
Beta-tester and builder of the software and RPG online project “TheGate”.
Research
Activities
Federico Morando
Research
Interests
Law&Economics
Internet and New
Technologies
Focus on the intersection between economics, technology and law: intellectual property
rights (software related issues; open access and open data related issues); technological
aspects of (open) (linked) data; competition and antitrust issues (software markets,
interoperability); law&economics of cultural heritage (in the digital environment).
Publications
2015
F. Morando with A. Vetrò
et al.
F. Morando with L. Canova
et al.
F. Morando with O.
Rodríguez-Rocha et al.
2014
F. Morando with C. Artusio
F. Morando with G. Futia
et al.
F. Morando with R. Iemma
and M. Osella
Open Data Quality Measurement Framework: Definition and Application to Open
Government Data. Forthcoming in Government Information Quarterly.
Collaborative Open Data versioning: a pragmatic approach using linked data. In CeDEM15 –
Proceedings of the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government,
Edition Donau-Universität;
Semantic Annotation and Classification in Practice. In: IT PROFESSIONAL, vol. 17 n. IT-Ena,
pp. 33-39. - ISSN 1520-9202;
Creative Commons 4.0 Licenses: a Sui Generis Challenge?, in CeDEM14 – Proceedings of
the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government, Edition DonauUniversität;
Exploiting Linked Open Data and Natural Language Processing for Classification of Political
Speech, in CeDEM14 – Proceedings […], Edition Donau-Universität;
Breaking public administrations data silos: The case of Open-DAI, and a comparison
between open data platforms, in CeDEM14 – Proceedings […], Edition Donau-Universität
(best paper award, publ. on Journal of eDemocracy and Open Government vol. 6 n. 2, pp.
112-122. ISSN 2075-9517);
2013
E. Bertacchini, F. Morando
F. Morando
F. Morando et al.
F. Morando et al.
F. Morando
The Future of Museums in the Digital Age: New Models of Access and Use of Digital
Collections. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTS MANAGEMENT, vol. 15 n. 2, pp. 60-72.
ISSN 1480-8986
Gli obblighi di pubblicazione concernenti l'uso delle risorse (artt. 26-27, 29-30). In: La
trasparenza amministrativa dopo il d.lgs. 14 marzo 2013, n. 33 / Ponti B. Maggioli spa, pp.
239-257. ISBN 978-8838781025
Guida alla pubblicazione dei dati delle pubbliche amministrazioni. Edizioni ETS srl, Pisa, pp.
9-83. ISBN 9788846735782
(alternative edition freely available at http://www.evpsi.org/librobianco)
Is there such a thing as free government data? In: INTERNET POLICY REVIEW. - ISSN 21976775
Legal interoperability: making Open Government Data compatible with businesses and
communities. In: JLIS.IT, vol. 4 n. 1, pp. 441-452. - ISSN 2038-1026
2011
G. Rizzo, F. Morando,
J.C. De Martin.
F. Morando et al.
M. Ricolfi, F. Morando et al.
M. Ricolfi, F. Morando et al.
F. Morando and P. Tsiavos
Open Data: la piattaforma di dati aperti per il Linked Data. In: INFORMATICA E DIRITTO, vol.
Informatica e diritto n. 20, pp. 493-511. - ISSN 0390-0975
SURVEY OF PRIVATE COPYRIGHT DOCUMENTATION SYSTEMS AND PRACTICES. World
Intellectual Property Organization, Ginevra, pp. 1-70.
The 'principles governing charging' for re-use of public sector information. In:
INFORMATICA E DIRITTO, vol. 2011 n. 1-2, pp. 105-128. - ISSN 0390-0975
The 'Licensing' of Public Sector Information. In: INFORMATICA E DIRITTO, vol. 2011 n. 1-2,
pp. 129-146. - ISSN 0390-0975
Diritti sui beni culturali e licenze libere (ovvero, di come un decreto ministeriale può far
sparire il pubblico dominio in un paese) (”Cultural heritage rights and free licenses” in
Italian), Quaderni del Centro Studi Magna Grecia (Univ. Federico II di Napoli)
2010
F. Morando
Copyright Default Rule: Reconciling Efficiency and Fairness (Ch. 2). In: Intellectual Property
Law - Economic and Social Justice Perspectives / ANNE FLANAGAN; MARIA LILL
MONTAGNANI EDS. Edward Elgar Publishing, NORTHAMPTON, pp. 24-43. ISBN
9781848446274
2009
F. Morando
Federico Morando’s
CV and Publications
La protezione delle "informazioni" (Cap. 7, sez. 7.1 7.2 7.4). In: Intellectual Asset
Management: Gestire e valorizzare i beni immateriali / GUSTAVO GHIDINI A CURA DI. Egea,
MILANO. ISBN 9788823832374
F. Morando
M. L. Montagnani,
F. Morando
The Legal Status of Software Interoperability Information: A Law & Economics Analysis of
Application Programming Interfaces and Communication Protocols. In: The Future Of.
Conference on Law and Technology, Fiesole (Firenze), 28-29 Ottobre 2008. pp. 281-322
Proprietà intellettuale ed esposizioni di opere: la tutela delle banche di dati. In: IL DIRITTO
D'AUTORE, vol. 1, pp. 1-48. - ISSN 0012-3420
2004
F. Morando
Principi tecnici ed economici per l'analisi del mercato delle piattaforme software: Il Caso
Microsoft europeo. In: CONCORRENZA E MERCATO, vol. 12, pp. 165-241. - ISSN 1720-2698
Selected
Presentations
2014
“Open Data: riflessioni a metà del guado”, in “La rivoluzione (è) open”, Consiglio Regionale
del Piemonte, 6 March 2014 .
2013
Chair of the “technical session – Licensing open data: the remaining elephant in the
room?” of the first public conference of the European Thematic Network LAPSI 2.0, 24
October 2013, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2011
“Open Data and Economic Development”, FORUM PA, final conference, Rome, 12 May
2011.
Chair and main organizer of the “Roundtable: Towards license interoperability”, SharePSI.eu workshop, Brussels, 10-11 May 2011
Selected project
activities
2013 – 2015
“Evidence and
Experimentation” research coleader
2013 - 2014
“Impact evaluation and
Exploitation” WG leader
2010 - 2012
2009 - 2012
Main author of the proposal
“Policy Recommendations”
work package leader
2008 - 2012
“Economic analysis and new
business paradigms” WG leader
more than 20 proposals
Federico Morando’s
CV and Publications
Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS)
co-leader of the Joint Research Activity 3, “Evidence and Experimentation”, of the
Network of Excellence in Internet Science (internet-science.eu). JRA3 core activities
consist in identifying and assessing methodologies, datasets and tools for Internet Science
research.
Opening Data Architectures and Infrastructures of European Public Administrations (Open-DAI)
leading WP 8, “Impact evaluation and Exploitation”, of the CIP pilot action Opening
Data Architectures and Infrastructures of European Public Administrations
(Open-DAI.eu).
Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information (LAPSI)
one of the main authors of project proposal (LAPSI-project.eu) that the Nexa Center
coordinated.
Extracting Value from Public Sector Information (EVPSI)
main author of the project proposal (EVPSI.org; budget of 1.1 million Euro, 60%
funded by the Social and Human Sciences call of Regione Piemonte);
during the project (2010/2012), I was involved in all its research activities and I led WP 8,
“Policy Recommendations” (http://www.evpsi.org/wp8), serving as the main author and
editor of the “Libro bianco per il riutilizzo dell’informazione del settore pubblico”
(evpsi.org/librobianco).
Communia
I led Working Group 4, “Economic analysis and new business paradigms” of the
COMMUNIA Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain (http://www.communiaproject.eu/WG4/).
Other
I took part in the drafting of more than 20 other proposals, including LAPSI 2.0,
PASTEUR4OA, Share PSI 2.0, Open-DAI (to mention some successful EU funded projects).