Title proposal: The Death Star of FP7: a network analysis of european research funding with open data.

Biography: Economist, expert on collaborative public policies and online participation. Committed to make government smarter and more open, using the Internet to tap into the citizenry’s collective intelligence. Worked with governments and IGOs in various capacities; now entrepreneuring at Edgeryders; civic hacking with Wikitalia and Spaghetti Open Data. He has been a reasonably successful rock musician (Wikipedia), but he is trying to quit.