Stefano Quintarelli

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Stefano Quintarelli (born 14 June 1965) is an Italian information technology specialist [1] [2] [3] and a descendant of the Italian writer Emilio Salgari. [4] He was a member of the Italian Parliament in the XVII legislature, [5] as part of the Civics and Innovators group.

He was a member of the telecommunications and transport commission in the Italian Parliament during the XVII Legislature and is President of AGID (Government Agency for Digital Italy). [6]

Quintarelli was included in a Corriere della Sera article on the thirty most innovative Italian entrepreneurs. [7]

After leaving BT Group in 2007, until July 2012 he was the managing director of the digital area of Il Sole 24 Ore , an Italian financial newspaper. [8] He left office when he was proposed [9] as an independent candidate for the presidency of AGCOM, the Italian communications authority. In proposing his candidacy, the Italian section of ISOC likened him to one of the great figures of the Renaissance. [10]

In 2015, he formally defined the concept of Device Neutrality and proposed a bill to enforce it in Italy. The bill was stopped at the final vote in the Senate in 2017, after many successful votes in the Chamber of Deputies and through all Senate committees, due to lobbying efforts by some multinational device manufacturers and telecom operators. [11] The law has since gained formal support at the European Commission [12] by BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights. A law with identical principles has been passed in South Korea, [13] and the French telecoms regulator ARCEP has called for the introduction of Device Neutrality in Europe. [14] He defined the foundational principles of European Union Digital Identity under the eIDAS regulation. [15]

He theorized the Internet as a dimension of existence, in which social and economic relations are created and developed, [16] and the emergence of a new class conflict between intermediaries and the intermediated that surrounds and dominates the traditional conflict between capitalists and the proletariat. This introduces, in addition to the traditional categories of capital and labor, the information category, which is controlled by a small number of info-plutocrats. [17]

From 2014 to 2021, he was the chairman of AgID, Italy's digital agency. [18]

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  2. ↑ "Chi è Stefano Quintarelli?". fanpage.it. 14 May 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "Stefano Quintarelli". identity-tower.com. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "Muore a 88 anni di età il "profe" Quintarelli" (in Italian). Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Camera.it - XVII Legislatura - Deputati e Organi - Scheda deputato - QUINTARELLI Giuseppe Stefano". www.camera.it (in Italian). Camera dei Deputati. 18 November 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  6. ↑ "Poggiani è dg Agid, Quintarelli presidente del Comitato d'indirizzo - CorCom". corrierecomunicazioni.it. 10 July 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  7. ↑ "I componenti dell' Advisory Board: Stefano Quintarelli | Italiaconnessa". Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "24 ORE Group: Stefano Quintarelli New Director Digital Area" (PDF). ilsole24ore.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  9. ↑ "Agcom, Pdl e Web "candidano" Quintarelli". 14 May 2012.
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  11. ↑ "After Net Neutrality, Device Neutrality". hermescenter.org. 4 December 2017. Archived from the original on 2 January 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  12. ↑ "Draft law laying down measures concerning the provision of Internet services for the protection of competition and freedom of access for users (under 'Contributions')". ec.europa.eu. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  13. ↑ "Amended Enforcement Decree of the Telecommunications Business Act Now Effective". kimchang.com. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  14. ↑ "Regulator slams devices as weak link for net neutrality". mobileworldlive.com. 16 February 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  15. ↑ "Towards principles and guidance for eID interoperability on online platforms" (PDF). European Commission, official website. 29 November 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 June 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  16. ↑ "On Rights and Competition" (PDF). Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  17. ↑ "Intermediati digitali, unitevi" . Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  18. ↑ "Presidential nomination decree" (PDF). ag.
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