Hi, I am Dario. I devoted the best part of my career to designing programs and strategies to transform scientific collaboration and knowledge production through principles of openness. I am the founder and Director of the Open Source for Science Fund, a multi-donor initiative by Renaissance Philanthropy to support and evolve the open source stack that underpins science. Prior to joining Renaissance Philanthropy, I led a portfolio of partnerships and philanthropic investments in open science and open source at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, funding software tools, platforms, and organizations that help scientists share data, knowledge, and resources openly and build on each other’s work. I previously served as the Head of Research at the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia and its sister projects.
My research focuses on the behavioral and social aspects of collaborative technology. I am broadly interested in online collaboration and peer production, and in the design of systems and programs to make open knowledge more discoverable and reusable.