Speakers Speakers (Decidim Fest 2021)

Master's Degree in Strategic Management of Information and Communication in Organisations, specialising in research. I have developed my professional career in the field of higher education. I am part of the UOC's Strategic Planning Office, where I am in charge of drawing up, monitoring and closing the Strategic Plan. I have also been the project leader in the design of the University's new strategic plan, where we have developed a new participatory process in the field of university strategic management, with the collaboration of the Tecnopolítica research group and the Goteo Foundation.

She has a degree in Philosophy, specialized in art and digital technologies. Her interest is focused, above all, on analyzing the relationships that are woven between the technical object and the body from a paradigm of distributed agency. She addresses these issues by combining theory and philosophy with criticism and artistic experimentation.

She currently works as a full-time researcher-in-training in the project "IN>TRA. Collaborative artistic practice as a model of experience: new forms and prototypes in research processes", directed by IMARTE, Research Group, Art, Science and Technology of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona (UB). He is also working on his doctoral thesis on the new modalities of corporation-reality that arise in relation to the phenomenon of datification, under the tutorship of the UB and the University of Rennes.

Technology Lead at Decidim.Austria and mitgestalten Partizipationsbüro. Web- & Mobile-Developer and Cloud Solutions Architect. More than 10 years experience with Ruby on Rails. Keen on innovative solutions for the future of democracy

Alex Randaccio is a Project Developer at RadicalxChange. He is currently leading development of RxC’s suite of experimental governance tools.

Alicia Valero Delgado leads the industrial ecology group at the Research Center for Energy Resources and Consumption (CIRCE Institute) and is a full professor at the University of Zaragoza in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research activity of more than fifteen years has focused on the identification of resource efficiency measures and the application of thermodynamics in the evaluation of mineral depletion, a subject for which she has received four international awards. She has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications in international journals and book chapters, all related to the analysis and optimization of energy and raw material use. She acts as an advisor to the European Commission in the EIP on feedstocks and participates in international round tables for feedstock criticality assessment.

Co-Director and co-founder of Whose Knowledge?, a global multilingual campaign to centre the knowledges of marginalised communities (the majority of the world) online. She has led initiatives in India and the USA, across the global South, and internationally for over 20 years, to amplify marginalised voices in virtual and physical worlds. She is the former Chief Grantmaking Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and the former Regional Program Director at the Global Fund for Women. Anasuya is a 2017 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and received a 2018 Internet and Society award from the Oxford Internet Institute. She is on the Scholars’ Council for UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, and the advisory committee for MIT’s Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS). Anasuya holds an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She also has a BA in Economics (Honours) from Delhi University. When not rabble-rousing online, Anasuya makes and breaks pots and poems, takes long walks by the water and in the forest, and contorts herself into yoga poses.

Sociologist of design and technology. His research focuses on how the technology industry, public policy, finance and infrastructures are entangled with social expectations to produce certain forms of knowledge and collective visions of the future.

He shares learning spaces at Elisava, UOC and ESCAC, among others, where he weaves together media studies, critical thinking, social sciences, speculative practices and research through art and design. 

He is co-founder of Becoming, a collaborative research and design studio on emerging scenarios. His work has been presented at MACBA, The Influencers, Hangar, Sónar +D (Barcelona), Medialab Prado (Madrid), Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam) and The New School (New York) among others. He writes in different media and his work has been published in books such as Crossmedia Innovations (Peter Lang, 2012) and Design Does (Elisava, 2018). 

Through Engineering Fiction he observes and experiments with the imaginary and mythological components of technological and scientific systems. He is also part of Tecnopolítica and Vector, spaces aimed at thinking about key challenges of contemporary digital cultures, societies and politics, from a critical and proactive approach.

Arnau Monterde is the Director of Democratic Innovation at the Barcelona City Council. He is one of the cofounders of Decidim project. He has also promoted the Laboratory of Democratic Innovation in Barcelona. He was the coordinator of the tecnopolitica.net project at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3-UOC). He studies emerging forms of political participation and democracy in the network society. He holds a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society by the Open University of Catalunya.

After a master's degree in computer science and numerous work experiences in volunteer organizations (repair café, third-places etc.), Baptiste went as intern in the civic tech company Open Source Politics, working as back-end developer on the free software Decidim. After this intern, he entered in the newly-created data team of the same company, having for purpose to study how data gathered could be handled and the legal issues triggered by those treatments.

Blanca Callén is a researcher and lecturer in the area of Social Studies of Science and Technology, collective political action and design. In recent years, she has been researching e-waste, waste and material culture. In this field, she is interested in informal responses to the problem of waste, research methodologies with objects and reparation as an onto-political practice in the face of eco-social damage. Her work draws on participatory methodologies, free culture and critical and eco-feminist thinking. She is co-founder and active member of the Restarters BCN Association.

He is a freelance journalist and social researcher specialising in the use of ICTs in Africa for social transformation and new social and citizens' movements on the continent. He collaborates with different media to try to disseminate the activities of the African digital ecosystem, which serves as an excuse for him to keep in touch with organisations and activists committed to bringing about social change in Africa. To complete his goal of sharing these experiences, in addition to his activities as a journalist and researcher, he teaches in a dozen or so programmes  

Graduate in Journalism (UN), Master in Cultures and Development in Africa (URV) and PhD student in Communication and International Relations (URLl). He dedicates his time to independent journalism, social research, teaching and communication consultancy for social organisations. His lines of work are the use of ICTs in Africa for social transformation and the new social and citizens' movements on the continent. In this way, he tries to approach the phenomenon and make it known from different approaches. He is one of the co-founders of Wiriko.

Graduate in Criminology and History and Master in International Relations, Security and Development. Researcher at ODHE and Shock Monitor. Interested in the phenomenon of privatisation of security, Terrorism and Human Security. Some of his most recent publications: Mass Surveillance and Control of European Dissidence (ENCO, 2021), Blurring the monopoly on violence: Private Military and Security Companies and coercive state power (TNI, 2021), Voices from Confinement and Occupation (ODHE, 2020), The Tentacles of Occupation: exploitation of Western Sahara's fishing resources in the framework of the Moroccan state occupation (ODHE, 2019); The transformation of the military-industrial complex (Shock Monitor and Centre Delàs 2017).

Carola Castellano Josa holds a PhD in Political Science (2016) and a degree in Sociology (1998) from the UAB. Master in Initiation to Research in Political Science and Administration: Thinking and Governing Complex Societies (UAB, 2009), Postgraduate in Participation and Sustainable Development (UAB, 2000) and Master in Social Economy and Management and Administration of Non-Profit Organisations (UB, 1999).

She works in public administration as head of the Citizen Participation Section of the Agenda 2.030 and Participation Service (Barcelona Provincial Council) advising and training political and technical teams of the city councils of the Barcelona area on how to involve citizens in the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies related to different areas of the local world.

She is currently an associate lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Law at the UAB and a consultant lecturer at the UOC.

Her professional and academic career is linked to the analysis and evaluation of public policies, citizen participation, social transformation and local government.

Carol has worked as a GIS analyst both in the private and public sector. At Localret, where she has worked over the past few years, she coordinated several ICT projects for municipalities, with a focus on digital platforms for citizen engagement.

She is one of the cofounders of Decidim project and currently working as head of product and coordinating different institutions to facilitate the collaboration among them.

Founder and president of The African League of Bloggers and Cyber-activists for Democracy commonly known as AFRICTIVISTES. A pan-African organisation based in Dakar aim at promoting and defend democratic values, human rights and good governance through digital media.

Cheikh Fall has also promoted various platforms, such as Sunu2012 and SunuCause, created with the aim of encouraging civic participation on the Internet. Since 2007, he has played a central role in the so-called soft revolution, in which new technologies and social networks have become a mechanism for the empowerment of civil society, a movement that has spread to different countries on the African continent

Darlene strives to make any space she occupies better than it was before. She finds motivation in innovating new mediums for utilizing her skills and bringing thought-provoking solutions to the table for lasting change. While she’s not planning new ways to engage youth in PB, Darlene can be found studying at Harvard University, mentoring young black female high school students entering higher education, and researching the effects of colonial slavery in the U.S within the legal, economic, and societal structures of contemporary America. In her spare time, Darlene enjoys writing and singing opera. She has published her first prose poem through her Creative Writing & Journalism class at Columbia University titled “Roots.” After graduation, she hopes to pursue a career in medical policy and writing, inspiring others to paint the world in the shades they dream of.

Degree in Physics and PhD in Sustainability from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Author of the book Anti-cooperation. Global North-South Interferences. (2009) Barcelona: Icària Editorial. Co-founder of the Observatory on Debt in Globalisation (ODG) of the UNESCO Chair in Sustainability and has taught political ecology at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

He has spent the last 30 years working for different NGDOs, universities, social movements, countries and governments (including the ACCD of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the SENPLADES of the Ecuadorian Government) on issues of development cooperation and global environmental and global economic justice. He has concentrated his activity on the impactology

of the Spanish economy in Southern countries and the analysis of development cooperation from the perspective of policy coherence for development.

Currently and since February 2016, he is the Director of Global Justice and International Cooperation of the Barcelona City Council, where 0.7% of the City Council's own income is granted and where a broadband cooperation model is being promoted.

Designer of digital interactions, researcher and teacher. His work focuses on the intersection between design, citizen activism and online technologies. He teaches design and communication at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Ekaitz Cancela is a journalist who investigates the structural transformations of capitalism, its cultural expressions and Europe's position in the world, and whose articles appear regularly in media such as El Salto and La Marea. He is the author of, among others, Despertar del sueño tecnológico (Akal, 2019) and is preparing a book on politics in the digital era for Bellaterra publishing house, due out in 2022.

Founder of Postfuturear, a contemporary foresight and strategy agency combining Futures Studies, analysis of change, trends and complex systems, process design and ethics. She is also a Fellow of the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies. She is an occasional contributor to different media on technology, society and culture, such as the CCCBLab. 

With a degree in History from the Universitat de Barcelona, she has worked as a research assistant for the IGOP-UAB and the IN3-UOC for different social research projects on innovation, emerging and collaborative economies. 

She has also worked as a freelance researcher, analyst and strategic innovation consultant, and for communication agencies, consultancies and public administration, and for media such as El País - Retina and RNE4.

She has a diploma in Social Work and a degree in Humanities. An official of Barcelona City Council, she has worked as head of projects and public services in different neighbourhoods and districts of the city, managing local facilities and developing programmes in areas such as women, youth, interculturality, community development, participation and support for civic and social entities.

Since 2016, she has been responsible for the department for the Promotion of Participation of Barcelona City Council, from which she has played an important role in the process of drawing up the new regulations for participation of the City Council, approved in 2017. He has also actively collaborated in drawing up the strategic lines for diverse and inclusive participation and in drawing up the administrative procedure that enables and guarantees the implementation of citizens' initiatives.

Three years ago he joined the Democratic Innovation Department, where he has collaborated in the governance process of the Decidim community and currently promotes digital training, education and support for the new Democratic Innovation and Digital Athenaeum-Canodrome project.

Designer, artist, researcher, a graduate of the Higher Institute of Design of Havana, head of the 3rd cycle Design and Research at the École Supérieure d'Art et Design de Saint-Étienne, and editorial director of Azimuts. Ernesto Oroza has been interested in architectures of necessity, technological disobedience, and other topics that link design and society in times of economic and political crisis. He produces and distributes speculative models and research through various publishing methods, exhibitions, collaborative practices, documentaries, and unorthodox forays into architecture, interior design, and object design.

Co-director of ARSGAMES, an international organisation with more than 12 years of experience focused on video games as a tool for social transformation. D. in Philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Cum Laude International Mention with the thesis titled Technology at the borders. Professor at various universities in Spain and Mexico.

She was the founder and director of the Fábrica Digital El Rule (now the Technology Laboratory) of the CDMX's Secretariat of Culture, and she advises and collaborates with the CENART's Multimedia Centre.

Ferran Reyes is a social educator, expert in technological sovereignty, innovation and social economy. He has initiated and led projects such as Foodcoop, a cooperative supermarket in Barcelona, or the GRETA Network, a community fibre optic network in Terresd de l'Ebre. He is currently working on Vocdoni, a free-code digital voting protocol that uses decentralised technologies to provide security, anonymity and resistance to censorship.

Marta learned computer engineering at the UPF in Barcelona, participation in the Andean and Amazonian communities of Peru, creativity in her own search, and feminism in the oppression of psychological abuse. In 2019, her paths converged in Platoniq, an organisation where Creativity and Democracy coincide.