Paolo M. Pumilia-Gnarini graduated in Physics in 1986 from the Milan State University and had advanced courses on physics and computational techniques (NATO/ASI, NATO/MIDIT, and CNRS) during his career as a researcher. He has a long lasting professional experience in setting up and analysing results of large atomic systems numerical simulations matching experimental measurements of nuclear magnetic resonance signals, infrared absorption and raman spectroscopy, and x-ray diffraction patterns. Most studies for Italian Research Institutions (CNR and Montedison) have addressed molecular crystals and biosensors dynamics, while working as consultant for pharmaceutical companies (Farmitalia Carlo-Erba S.r.L, Pharmacia Corporation) and research institutes (Ronzoni, Donegani), focus has been on protein structure and biosensors. He has been teaching mathematics and physics at high school level, while working as a consultant on the use of the ICT in small businesses and for cultural associations interested on the impact of the information technologies on our society. To that aim, in the last decade, as member of the AICA (the oldest cultural association in Italy, to tackle computer science issues at academic and at popular level as well) Paolo M Pumilia has organized and managed workshops and conferences about the open source phenomenon, dealing with the economical, technical, law, and cultural aspects. He has been invited as an expert to the Consultation on ‘Access rights for e-earning content’, at the European Commission. In 2007, he has represented a number of Italian cultural associations at the Beijing Symposium of the International Council for Science CODATA (Committee on Data for Science and Technology). Few years ago, he joined a group of scholars at the Bologna and Padua universities to frame a viable proposal to gradually improve the youth education school system by involving the whole local community in that effort. Paolo M. Pumilia-Gnarini (Independent Researcher, Italy), Elena Favaron (La Scuola che Funziona, Italy), Elena Pacetti (University of Bologna, Italy), Jonathan Bishop (Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems, UK) and Luigi Guerra (University of Bologna, Italy)