The Telecom Italia Foundation, in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Turin, the Italian Sociology Association, the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History and Cliomedia Officina, staged the Convention.

2060: WHAT WILL BE THE SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF OUR TIMES?
comparison of techniques, practices and social sciences

The convention had been held in Turin, on April 8th and 9th, 2010, and initiated an open and in-depth meeting between scholars, researchers, social scientists and economists, as well as experts from the world of digital technology and innovation, in order to consider what may be the practices and methodologies for creating archives and for the historians of the future.

The Scientific Committee is composed of:

Luca De Biase, Editor-in-chief, Nova/Il Sole24ore
Tommaso Detti, Professor of Contemporary History, University di Siena, Delegate for SISSCO (the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History)
Fabio Di Spirito, General Secretary,  Telecom Italia Foundation
Paolo Jedlovski, Professor of General Sociology, the University of Calabria
Vittorio Marchis, Professor of the History of Science and Technology, Polytechnic of Turin
Serge Noiret, History Information Specialist, European University Institute, Florence
Chiara Ottaviano, Cliomedia Officina, Turin

Convention programme
Press Release