Mauro Sandrini
Phd Candidate in Economics & Sociology of New Economy Processes
Teramo University, Italy
msandriniATcomplessita.it (please substitute 'AT' with '@') - Tel. +39 333 93 13 87 3


I will be at the AIS Giovani - I° Forum Nazionale per i giovani sociology in Naples, October 10-11, 2003.
Here you can find the paper I will present there (in Italian, abstract in English):
Open Source, Economia della conoscenza e Innovazione (Open Source, Knowledge Economy and Innovation).

I will be at the CCTV and Social Control Conference, 8-9 January 2004, at the Sheffield University Centre for Criminological Research.

I will be a the 12th CACR Information Security Workshop & 4th Annual Privacy and Security Workshop Privacy and Security: The Next Wave that will be at the University of Toronto November 6/7.

We want security but we hate it. The foundations of security technoeconomics in the social world. From Control to Surveillance Presented at the 2nd Annual Workshop on 'Economics and Information Security', May 29-30, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Here you can download the italian version:
Cerchiamo la sicurezza ma la boicottiamo. Fondamenti di tecnoeconomia della società. Dal controllo alla sorveglianza.
Security technologies evolution. Controlled future.. is already here! (in Italian)
Linux Magazine, n. 5, May, 2003
Short Bio:
After graduating in Business Administration Engineering at the Engineering Faculty, Bologna University, in 1998. Then I did some consulting experience at the same time founding an Internet company too late to become millionaire. In 2002 I resumed my studies based on my experience with some open source projects.
Now my main interest is to investigate the signs that may be translated from the open source evolutionary experience to other fields of the knowledge economy.
Books and chapters:
Industrial automations and systems (italian),
cohautor with G. Antonelli, R. Burbassi, G. Borgognoni, R. Neri, Cappelli Ed., Bologna, Italy, 2002

Fund raising revolution: Internet and the ethic virus (italian),
chapter of the book: Fundraising per le organizzazioni non profit, V. Melandri, V. Masacci, Ed. Il Sole24Ore, 2000
Articles:
Economy is down? IT markets are waiting? Here you are TCPA-Palladium!
Linux Magazine, n. 8, October, 2002
Conferences:
To be updated
Projects:
1.
Developing the paths illustrated in the paper "We Want Security but we hate it".
Trying to investigate the surveillance stream that is flowing inside our society and that is going to redefine how we build relationships in the near future. Maybe it will be necessary to go beyond the privacy concept and to invent some new ones. (Esiear said than done..).

To this regard the work on understanding the consequences of 'Trusted Computing' is very important (thanks to Ross Anderson for his work) you can see the 'Trusted Computing' faq here (in italian here).

In respect of the comprehension of the evolutionary processes in the economics and social field, the cooperation with Dr. Ferdinando Cerbone is of great value as well (he is the President of the Reichian Studies Center Coevoluzione, Bologna, Italy.
2.
Developing the website www.complessita.it that I own together with Dr. Daniela Conti, biologist. Daniela is workiing hard on talks and papers on the risk of the reductionist approach to biology and I'm very happy to be collaborating with her.
3.
Some consulting on open source tools, especially web applications, just because It is better to have one foot in on solid ground. It is a great help for verifying theories (furthermore my bankaccount tells me it is necessary..)
Personal interests:
Travelling, learning, meeting people and sharing experience.
Books on the shelf:
Utopia, Thomas Moore, Penguing Books, 1965 (Thanks to Jackie)
The Algebra of infinite Justice, Arundhati Roy, Penguin Books, 2002
Crypto, Steven Levy, 2001
Security Engineering, Ross Anderson, Wiley, 2001
Il mondo sotto brevetto, Vandana Shiva, Feltrinelli, 2002
The art of deception, Kevin Mitnick, Wiley, 2002
Saccheggio globale, Sandro Calvani e Martina Melis, 2003, Sperling & Kupfer Editori
Autocoscienza e realta, Humberto Maturana, 1990 Raffaello Cortina Editore
Un know how per l'etica, F. J. Varela, Ed. Laterza, 1992
[Updated August 2, 2003]