Since 2025
Globstory
An open-source project for researching, teaching and learning history through digital tools.
Hi, I’m Alessandro
I build civic-tech, host a podcast, and love talking to people changing how democracy works.
I’m Alessandro. I like making things, following my curiosity across fields, and writing about what I learn along the way. Always happy to chat — just say hi.
What I’m working on now
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Since 2023
Democracy Routes
A digital platform exploring how civic participation can become easier, clearer and more accessible.
Since 2024
Democracy Innovators
A podcast of long-form conversations with the founders, researchers and practitioners rethinking how democracy works.
Since 2025
Agentic Party
Participatory systems for political organizations — helping parties listen, decide and explain with more democratic capacity.
Latest writing
All writingSome concepts for History (globstory.it)
Here I’m gonna post some ideas/design/concepts that it would be nice to create. This design is quite classic.
The Speed of Power: can we calculate it?
There are many theories about what power is and how it can be exercised, but here, I propose to reason about the power that each one of us has.
History timeline made with AI
In world history class we had to read and present the content. I decided to use chatgpt to analyze the content of the text (previously I’ve read it…) and generate a json file that I could write on the database where h5p is installed (it’s actually a WordPress plugin).
Thoughts about writing and artificial intelligence
As a person who always liked to read, and always wanted to be able to write well, I looked at the ChatGPT phenomenon, as something very interesting. Of course, I was shocked by how fast and precise it is, at the same time I’m so happy that I don’t have to write anything boring again!
The network effect
Sometimes we worry too much about things. If you work, you work. If you study, you study. If you think… :/ From now on I’ll try to not think too much, I’ll post my projects here, trying to see what will happen using the most unbelievable things of our epoch: the network.
The thesis · 12 parts
Ending my History bachelor with a thesis about blockchains
It was for me something obvious to mix History with blockchains, and I’m very happy that I’ve done it. The whole thesis is published here in twelve parts.
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