Vittorio Bertola

Vittorio Bertola
Head of Policy & Innovation

The "Sign-in with Facebook" problem and the open source solution

Vittorio Bertola on Sep 16, 2019

An effort has started to create an identity management platform that works just like those of the OTTs, but empowers the user rather than the provider, protects the user’s privacy and digital freedoms, and is bas...

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INTRODUCING COI: AN OPEN CHAT SYSTEM BASED ON EMAIL

Vittorio Bertola on Jul 1, 2019

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The best Business Objective for 2019

Vittorio Bertola on Jan 1, 2019

Vittorio Bertola from Open-Xchange looks at freedom and corporate social responsibility in the context of digitalization, and how Europe needs to respond to the global transformation.

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Promoting a discussion on DNS-over-HTTPS

Vittorio Bertola on Nov 23, 2018

In the last few months, we have seen a lot of community discussion around the latest development in the internet’s naming system, a new protocol called DNS-over-HTTPS. The DNS—the mechanism through which you can ...

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It’s extra time for TES in 2018!

Vittorio Bertola on Nov 7, 2018

In our last update from Japan, we had told you that the TES season for 2018 had ended… but hey, there is never enough email security! So we are happy to announce that we have arranged two more commitments in Nove...

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Dear Europe, we need openness to increase competition

Vittorio Bertola on Oct 24, 2018

In Brussels, the European Commissioner for Competition has promoted a discussion on what policies should be enacted to ensure fair competition in an increasingly digitized economy, especially regarding the market...

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TES under the rising sun

Vittorio Bertola on Sep 21, 2018

Seventeen meetings and almost three years after the TES project debuted in London, it finally got to Asia. Tokyo, the world’s most bustling megalopolis, was last week the setting of a new TES event organized by D...

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From Latin America to the Far East

Vittorio Bertola on Aug 28, 2018

The summer of TES in 2018 goes all around the planet – and for a project that was born in the heart of Europe, this is a great result. In June, as part of the build-up to the ICANN meeting in Panama, the first TE...

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Open source = privacy. Closed source = privacy of a certain sort.

Vittorio Bertola on May 23, 2018

Ben Thompson of Stratechery recently wrote a blog post arguing that open, federated messaging systems are inherently less secure than their closed counterparts. I disagree with his opinion. It has been claimed th...

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Open-Xchange joins the Open Cloud Foundation

Vittorio Bertola on May 3, 2018

Open-Xchange is glad to announce that it is joining the Open Cloud Foundation, the new global industry body that brings together cloud solution providers, customer organizations and researchers to actively promot...

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