Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to read about OSI board candidates. :-)

I update this page regularly to reflect on my colleagues' inputs. Feel welcome to comment and ask questions (moderated by the OSI board).

I am a candidate for the affiliate member seat which is now held by Simon Phipps.

What is open-source?

I understand open-source as a method that encourages everyone to build, review, reproduce, improve a technology or an innovation (rather than recreating it).

I see the value of open-source in its ability to help us achieve decent and healthy life for everyone, as it fosters collaboration rather than competition, and reduces barriers to access knowledge.

What contribution to OSI?

To clarify my position, I summarized my colleagues goals. I invite you to read their full profile – I learned a lot about them and their vision doing so. :-)

What is Breathing Games?

Breathing Games brings people together so that we collectively take care of our breath. Concretely, we develop digital games to help asthmatic children manage their crises well, or to value peer sharing between peple who live with reduced breath capacity (cystic fibrosis, COPD).

We prototyped 20 games and two controllers, some of which were recently tested in hospitals. We now work on a multiplayer game where up to four players will have to collaborate with their different skills to reach the summit of a mountain.

I co-founded this open access commons in 2014. Breathing Games is affiliated to OSI since 2016, and a member of the Global Alliance against chronic respiratory diseases since 2018. This poster presents our work.

Who is Fabio?

I am 37, born in Switzerland. I live frugally, six months in Canada, and six months in Europe and Asia. I intervened for ten years in leading organizations before investing my time in Breathing Games. I do research at Concordia University in Montreal, where I finish an Individualized PhD in Social Sciences.

I have a transdisciplinary education, mostly focusing on group dynamics (MAS Human Systems Engineering), adult education, game design, communications, and health.

Currently, I am leading the Open Village, a series of activities to promote open hardware for health, as part of the Geneva Health Forum and the Open Geneva festival. You may give a look at the shot introduction video (subtitled).

Ich spreche Deutsch. Parlo italiano. Je parle français. Hablo español (un poco).