Davide Bardone received the B.S. and the M.S. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He currently is a Ph.D. student in Information and System Engineering at Politecnico di Torino with the Internet Media Group and the NEXA Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include: digital on-line contents estimation techniques; online social networks modeling and analysis; lossless image and video coding.

Andrea Cairola is a journalist, a video maker and an expert in international cooperation in the field of media development and promotion of press freedom. Recently, he has produced and hosted a current-affairs TV series about investigative journalism for Current Tv Italy; launched among the Italian media community the proposal to create in Italy a Center for Investigative Reporting; worked for the International pages of Il Fatto daily newspaper. In the past, he has produced video contributions aired on Report, prime-time investigative programme on the Italian public broadcaster RAI; collaborated regularly with La Stampa daily and with a number of mainstream magazines. In 2003, he has written and co-directed the documentary Citizen Berlusconi, produced by the US PBS broadcaster WNET13 and by a pool of European public service televisions and broadcasted in more than 20 countries around the world. For five years (2003-2008), he was staff of UNESCO, the United Nations agency with the mandate to promote free flow of information and freedom of expression Ð first based in Afghanistan and then in the Freedom of Expression division at the Paris-headquarter. While at UNESCO, he dealt with international cooperation to develop pluralist, independent, professional media in Afghanistan, Kazakistan, Central African Republic, Balkans and the Transcaucasian countries and other conflict/post-conflict environments. He has also supervised the editing of publications about comparative media law and freedom of information.
Andrea Cairola holds a first advanced degree in Economics at the Bocconi University of Milan, a MA in International Journalism from the City University of London, and a diploma as Media Law Advocate by the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy of the Oxford University.

Corrado joined the NEXA Center in March 2009 as intern, working on COMMUNIA Project. Holding a Bachelor degree in International and Public Law and a Master's degree in Law from the University of Turin (Italy), he is attending the Certificate of Transnational Law program at the University of Geneva (Switzerland).
His research interests are focused on the impact of new technologies on both public and private law.

Dr. Antonella Giulia Pizzaleo (Rome, 1974) holds a degree and a PhD in Communication Sciences. After her PhD, she worked as a lecturer at Sapienza University in Rome, in the fields of new media and shared production of knowledge by social media. She also worked as a journalist, writing on technology and social aspects of Internet use. In 2006 she started working at Italian Ministry for Public Administration and Innovation, as Scientific Counselor of the Undersecretary of State, Beatrice Magnolfi. In this context, she worked for the Italian participation at the first and the second IGF (Athens and Rio de Janeiro). With Professor Stefano Rodotà and the Committee on Information Society, established by the Undersecretary Magnolfi, she worked at the Italian proposal for an “Internet Bill of Rights”. In 2007, this proposal was officially supported by the Brazil Government, which signed a Joint Declaration with Italian Government.
In 2007 and 2008, she worked to organize two international Forums on the Internet Bill of Rights project in Rome and in Cagliari. After the end of the Government's term in 2008, she continued to work on Internet Governance and on the Internet Bill of Rights project. She is member of the Promoter Committee of Italian IGF. Currently, she works as a researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of CNR- National Research Council and at NEXA Center for Internet and Society, at Politecnico of Turin.