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Vittorio Bertola, from Turin, Italy, born in 1974, holds a degree cum laude in Electronical Engineering obtained at Politecnico di Torino. He deals with the Internet in all its aspects, including technical, business, social and political matters, as an entrepreneur, writer, activist and engineer.
He presently is Associate Partner for The Innovation Group, a "boutique consulting" company for top managers, and works as freelance consultant in policy and technical projects, also acting as a business angel; he is a founding partner in Dynamic Fun, a company leading innovation in Italy in logistical and commercial processes through the use of wireless and Internet technologies, and in Glomera, an Internet television platform. He was previously one of the promoters of Vitaminic, one of the most successful "dot com" companies in Italy, as its Vice President for Technology, a position he held since the foundation of the company through its multinational growth and IPO in Milan's Nuovo Mercato. He previously worked for Omnitel (now Vodafone Italy) and for Politecnico di Torino, where, as a student, he was an elected Board Member.
He is often busy as a conference speaker, a blogger and a writer for Italian newsletters and magazines. He has been dealing for a decade with Internet policies at the national and international level; he was a member of the United Nations' Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), appointed by the UN Secretary General Mr. Kofi Annan, and of the Internet Governance Consulting Committee of the Italian government, attending the second World Summit on Information Society and the United Nations' Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as member of the Italian delegation. In the IGF, after being one of the key figures in its conception, he co-founded and co-coordinated the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus, and he led the Dynamic Coalition on the Internet Bill of Rights; he is one of the founders of the Italian IGF. He represented the global Internet users in the Board of ICANN, the global policy making entity for Internet domain names. He has been serving for six years on the Council of Societą Internet, the Italian chapter of the Internet Society, where he is presently a councillor of the European Coordinating Council; he has been a member of the policy boards of top level domain names (.it, .mobi). He has also co-founded NNSquad Italia, the Italian branch of the global network neutrality campaign. Over the last ten years, he has been the author of several papers and the promoter of a number of online initiatives, which made him a well known figure on the Italian and global Internet.
In his home town, he is also among the promoters of the civic movement Torino a 5 Stelle, which experiments new forms of participatory democracy in Italian politics. For this movement, in 2009 he was the candidate to the post of President of the Province of Turin, a public institution managing a territory with 2'300'000 inhabitants; in 2010 he was a candidate to the Region's Council, the second most voted in Turin and surroundings, gathering 1375 personal votes.
