Yesterday I sent an announcement for an event organized by Attivarti.org (the small NGO I founded four years ago with three colleagues) to the two main Italian mailing lists I follow. One deals with geographic free/open source software, one deals with open data. Attivarti.org has open innovation (including software and data, an not neglecting open … Continue reading To cross- or to multiple-post in 2015? This is not the dilemma (part 1) →
This is a partial list of talks given in “institutional” settings. To these you should add the events I directly organized since 2008, and the invited talks in more “creative” settings on palla a 21, buiometria partecipativa and similar topics. You may find a reference to these in the pibinko.org blog and in the News … Continue reading Talks →
Having learned that the 2013 INSPIRE Conference would have been in Florence, and being Florence one of the locations where I was acting as citizen science coordinator for the ENVIROFI FP7 EU Research project, I proposed to the project managers to hold an outreach event at the conference. This would have been to share the … Continue reading Presentation of the “Citizens in Tuscany” experience in the INSPIRE Conference →
Below you find some shots from the Jug Band Colline Metallifere. Between June 14 and June 29 we have moved from Southern Tuscany, Trentino, Munich, and various locations in Baden-Württemberg, proposing a series of concerts intertwined with the topic of grains, and more in general to interact on musica and relation between different territories.We have … Continue reading The Jug Band Colline Metallifere Gran(i)Tour: how did it go? →
In the midst of the preparations for the Jug Band Colline Metallifere Gran(i)Tour, Wolfgang will send periodic shots from his wheat field in the Bruna Valley, Southern Tuscany. For previous pictures: https://www.pibinko.org/en/?s=wolfgang%27s+wheat.
We announced in early January that a delegation from the Jug Band Colline Metallifere (namely Jack O’Malley and Mauro Tirannosauro) would have been attending the fifth European Citizen Science Association conference. This is a medium-large event for a congress (around 500 participants), with a significant presence of extra-European folks. The topic is “citizen science”, where … Continue reading A representative from the Jug Band Colline Metallifere at the ECSA Conference in Vienna: How did it go? →
Here are a few shots from the “open door” event with Wolfgang Scheibe and his combined universe of art, agriculture, and music. As a peculiarity, with over 400 events in this celebration, the one in Tatti was the only one in Italy (and, in practice, almost the only one out of German-speaking countries…there was another … Continue reading The Tattistampa Art Print Day: how did it go? →
Thanks to Luciano Massetti of the Italian Research Council Bioeconomy Institute, who is a historical collaborator of the BMP project, we are glad to add to our “classical” measures (i.e. those made with manual measurements by citizens), a new information layer. This is represented by the location of fixed stations that CNR IBE has been … Continue reading The BuioMetria Partecipativa Map now includes the CNR IBE Research Network →
Between 2008 and 2020, in collaboration with Luca Delucchi, a geographer and a big supporter of the Sampdoria footbal club, the data collected by citizens with the Buiometria Partecipativa project were collected on a web site which allowed to display maps, reports, and more. For a few years we had to put the service on … Continue reading The new Participatory Night Sky Quality Monitoring Map →
Feb. 5, 2005. For more photos in the pibinko.org network: https://www.pibinko.org/photography/