MARCO LOTITO@funkylotito#WCAP BOLOGNA

Cultivating Communities of Practice

2003: FIRST Sustainability report

With the integration of Sustainability data within the TI Group Annual Report, begun in the financial year 2003, the Group has anticipated the application of European Directive 51/2003, adopted in Italy under the Legislative Decree of February 2, 2007, no. 32.

The data contained in the sustainability report regarding significant impacts, compared to economy, environment and society, of Telecom Italia on its stakeholders.http://www.telecomitalia.com/tit/en/sustainability/sustainability-report.html

2 YEARS LATER: THE BOOM OF G.A.S.

G.A.S. is an acronym for the Italian expression "Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale" (solidarity based purchasing groups). Usually, a purchasing group is set up by a number of consumers who cooperate in order to buy food and other commonly used goods directly from the producers or from big retailers at a discounted rate. (http://www.retegas.org/ )

2005: BUILDING A G.A.T.

G.A.T. is an acronym for “Gruppo Acquisto Telecom”

GOAL: to provide “some” organic food in the company canteen

● weekly delivery of green boxes (10 & 5 kg)● food from a “social farm” (<10 km from the office) ● the families were invited to take free tours of the farm

G.A.T. IN NUMBERS

● 52 members● 350 Euros cash/week● 40 weekly newsletter● new intranet “how to” section

about bio & km 0 local season food● 3 G.A.T. (Rome, Naples, Milan)

2012: MAP OF RECOMMENDED PLACES

SUPPORTING LOCAL ECONOMYhttps://cashmob.crowdmap.com

RESILIENCE? 1998 DOWNSHIFTING: FROM FULL-TIME to PART-TIME 50% (VERTICAL)2005FROM HR to COMMUNITY MANAGER2014 FROM PART-TIME to FULL-TIME, FROM TIM to WORKING CAPITAL, FROM ROME TO BOLOGNA, MARRIED

MY WORK-LIFE BALANCE HAS CHANGED

2013: LA TUA SPESA IN SEDE

MY IDEA OF GARDEN HAS CHANGED

2009 2012 2014

SUB-URBAN AGTIVISM

ROME

GROWING FOOD.. AT HOME

URBAN HOMESTEADING?

BOLOGNA

MY NEW RURAL FRIENDS

07/2013 07/2013 09/2013

#CAMPDIGRANO CASA NETURAL#CO-LIVING

SOCIETINGSUMMER SCHOOL

#RURALHUB

MY WORKPLACE IS ..

AN INNOVATION FACTORY

MY STREET IS A SOCIAL STREET!

The purpose of the Social Street is to promote socialization between neighbors resident in the same street in order to build relationships, to interchange needs, to share expertise and knowledges, to implement common interest projects, with common benefits from a closer social interaction.(http://www.socialstreet.it)

AND MY HOLIDAYS NOW ARE.. 1998 JUMPING ON A WHITE MEXICAN BEACH (http://www.hotelbarriolatino.com/)

2013 HELPING ORGANIC FARMERS TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE (http://www.wooof.it)

DIF

FERE

NT?

LESSONS LEARNED

★ start small: focus on small projects, learn what you don’t know

★ think big: identify the long term transformative trends

★ move fast forward

TRUST

ALWAYSSHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE

CALL FOR IDEAS 2014: MAKE IN ITALY

Hospitality and experience in Working Capital Accelerator during the acceleration program (http://www.workingcapital.telecomitalia.it/en)