Simone is Vice President of Wikimedia Italy, the Italian chapter of the WikiMedia Foundation and OpenStreetMap Foundation. The Italian community of OpenStreetMap owns a lot to him, who has worked to build it up since 2006.

He served as Director the OpenStreetMap Foundation, the not-for-profit association that promotes the interests of the project.
“Liberator” of Italian Public Administration data since 2007, he likes to turn them into maps.

Fervent promulgator of free licenses and open content.

Currently Product for SpazioDati, a company that deals with Big Data & the Semantic Web.