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Alejandra de Diego
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Alejandra González
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Andrés Pereira de Lucena
Software developer and system administrator specialized in free software and citizen participation. For the past 8 years he has been working in aLabs.org, an organization dedicated to producing open social tools that directly affect the environment, whether advising on the social use of new technologies or developing software for social movements or institutions, with projects such as nolotiro.org, a website to give away and look for free second-hand gifts that want to promote reuse and reduce consumption and participa.cloud, which seeks to facilitate access to any type of organization to have a citizen participation portal. Among other projects, in recent years he has worked as a Technical Consultant for the Decidim project (decidim.org), and implementing institutional citizen participation platforms such as Decidim Barcelona, Castilla La Mancha, Decidim Mataró, Decideix Malgrat and the platform of Open Government of the Prefecture of El Carchi (Ecuador).
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For over 25 years Ben Cerveny has worked as an executive, strategist, and designer in the context of operating systems, media applications, web services, products, the built environment, and digital games. Currently, he is building a Foundation to help cities and other public organizations develop and share what he calls Public Code, software and policy that is open, legible, and useful at the civic scale. Before this, he was a Design Fellow at Samsung, leading a project on room-scale programmable environments. Previously, he helped design the massively multiplayer game that became Flickr [and also named it], founded the Experience Design Lab at Frogdesign, and was CEO of Bloom Studios, whose data visualization iPad app Planetary was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution.
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Daniel Vázquez
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David Leal García
David Leal García is dialogue facilitator, social collaborative innovation consultant, researcher and teacher. Trained as an Economist, he is currently enrolled in a doctorate program in Sociology at the University of Barcelona. As a facilitator he works or has worked in various projects in Medialab Prado (Coincidimos, ParticipaLab), Altekio o Platoniq and as a freelance in various organizations and networks. He researches and practices new ways to hybrid processes of face-to-face and digital collaboration for networked transformative work. A teacher in participatory leadership at Isabel I, he is also co-founder of the Adbusters magazine in Spanish and associate editor and columnist at thesmartcitizen.org.
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Diego Romano
Diego Romano is a researcher at ICAR-CNR, the Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni (Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italian National Research Council). His main fields of interest are High Performance Computing and Distributed Systems, in particular with regard to algorithm designing and the study of performance evaluation parameters. For several years, he has been studying Blockchain, highlighting inefficiencies and opportunities, and also evaluating alternative uses and implementations.
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Emmanuel Silva
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Joan Subirats
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Kasia Odrozek is a long-time open web and digital rights activist, entrepreneur, lawyer and political scientist. Kasia runs Mozilla's Internet Health Report, a compilation of research and stories explaining what’s key to a healthier internet. Before Mozilla she worked on creating open culture and developing mediawiki software with Wikipedia communities. She is also a recipient of the Google News Initiative grant with her startup TapeWrite where she led product and worked on alternative funding models for audio publishers. Since 2011 she has been a contributor to Global Voices, an international blogger community where she reported on digital and human rights issues such as surveillance and copyright. She is a believer in the ability of people to reinvent the way power and ownership are distributed in tech.
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Senior IT professional with more than 15 years of experience in development, deployment and management of information systems. Junior researcher with 7-9 academic publications. Currently working with e-democracy and digital participation, developing Decidim platform for the city of Helsinki. MSc degree in ICTs and Socio-Economic Development from the University of Manchester.
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Lucía Martin
Martín, regidora de Barcelona En comú, ha destacat la diversitat dels barris de Sant Andreu i el creixement en habitatge públic i rehabilitació de finques previst per aquest mandat.
És enginyera química i té estudis de doctorat en Ciències Ambientals. Ha treballat en la inspecció de plantes de tractament de residus i estudiant processos biològics per eliminar contaminants del medi ambient. Ha en activitats reivindicatives a l’Ateneu Candela.
El 2009 va formar part del grup impulsor de la Plataforma d’Afectats per la Hipoteca, on va contactar amb l’actual alcaldessa Ada Colau. A les eleccions al Congrés de 2015 i 2016 fou escollida diputada per Barcelona en la coalició En Comú Podem.
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Marc Serra Solé
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María Becedas
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Mauro Forte
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Mayo Fuster
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Michael Donaldson Carbón
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Mr. Hidalgo stands at the crossroads of technology, government, community, and impact. He believes in participatory communities and uses technology to improve people’s lives. His work has been achieved through patience and organizing problem-solving teams. Mr. Hidalgo is known as an effective organizer who can walk between worlds.
Since 2009, he has organized BetaNYC to be a driving force to improve New York City’s use of technology and share its data. BetaNYC has advocated for a suite of government transparency laws, including the city’s transformative open data law and city record online law. BetaNYC runs the New York City Civic Innovation Lab/Fellows program, in partnership with the Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer, and curates the NYC School of Data community conference.
Mr. Hidalgo is an Eagle Scout. He was a Technology and Democracy fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; served as an inaugural member of Code for America’s National Advisory Council, and is a former fellow / currently an affiliate at Data & Society Research Institution.
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Óscar Pretel Ramírez
Oscar Pretel Ramirez. Master in E-Learning. ICT alphabetizer. Design of educational and participatory contexts. Innovative strategies for digital inclusion. Face-to-face/digital bimodal methodologies. Advisor to the Department of Participation, Transparency and Open Government of Zaragoza City Council. Advisor in Digital City in the City Council of Zaragoza. Design and implementation of the first Participatory Budgets in the city of Zaragoza. Currently starting the project MudejarLabTI, inclusive technology laboratory in Zaragoza.
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Pablo Aragón is a research scientist at the Data Science & Big Data Analytics unit in Eurecat and an Adjunct professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His research focuses on understanding social and political phenomena through the analysis of data from the Internet. He is particularly interested in characterizing online participation in civic technologies, the online network structures of grassroots movements and political parties, and the technopolitical dimension of networked democracy. Pablo is also a board member of Decidim, and co-founder of the Democratic Innovation Lab of Barcelona and the DatAnalysis15M research network.
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Pilar Shakti
Specialist in participatory processes, design and community interventions in Puentes4D.
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It’s a millennial community whose mission is to unmask the new forms of fascism that are hidden under apparently harmless symbology, as well as to recognize and give value to the feminist alliances forged in the heat of pixels.
"Starting from the popular and the community, we investigate the cultural wars of power in the media, the internet and the analog reality. War has begun, we are sure of our position in it and we are ready to laugh out loud from the barricade, because our lives are at stake."
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Rosa Borge Bravo
Rosa Borge Bravo is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She has been Deputy Director of the UOC's Doctorate and Master's in the Information and Knowledge Society and researcher at the UOC's Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN-3). Doctor in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Deusto (Bilbao). She has been a lecturer and research technician at Pompeu Fabra University, Portland State University and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan. Specialist in political behaviour and Social Science methodologies, her current research areas are digital deliberation and participation and social network analysis applied to political actors and social movements. He has published in indexed journals such as Information, Communication & Society, Policy & Internet, International Journal of Communication, ARBOR or the International Journal of Sociology. She has been the principal investigator of a project funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya (DEMOC call) that analysed participation and deliberation through the Decidim platform in Catalan municipalities.
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Always spinning around the connectivity totem, since the dawn of the Internet, when the sound of the modem sounded like an advent of the entrance to a world of interaction. Learning every day, getting to know new horizons in regards to the relationship between technology and society. The bet on digital commons and especially the open software movement have been a guiding thread on this journey. Currently researching and kick-starting new experiences to expand democracy.
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Citizen Participation Consultant at Digidem Lab, a non-profit democracy lab based in Sweden that help cities, city districts and public institutions in Sweden to design participation processes and implement either Decidim or Consul. Former member of city council in Gothenburg. Board member of Consul Foundation.
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She holds a degree in sociology and a masters in public and social policies. She’s been the coordinator of the Social Analysis and Public Policies Institute from the Ferrer and Guàrdia Foundation, from which she is currently the director. She has collaborated in various research and publications about participation.
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Thais Ruiz de Alda
Thais Ruiz de Alda is a technologist strategist. She’s been online since 1999. She holds a Degree in Law (Universitat de Barcelona), and continued her studies with a postgraduate in sociology (Pompeu Fabra) and political policies PhD studies (Escola doctorat Pompeu Fabra). Expert in communication and digital media, previously, she has joined different projects, such as running the digital area in in digital comms agencies, leading the digital strategy in Barcelona City Hall, starting up a webdoc production company, releasing the first webdoc in Spain and lately, as the Managing Director of tech consulting firm. She is also engaged with digital rights and digital commons activism and Gender and Tech activism, and has recently founded Digitalfems, and NGO to promote women in tech and the digital fields. She is also a regular collaborator of different collectives such as Liquen Data Lab, Dimmons and Metadecidim.
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Xabier Barandiaran
Xabier E.Barandiaran holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science and works on the transdisciplinary intersection of cognitive sciences and complex systems, collaborative innovation and participatory democracy. He studied the Master of Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the University of Sussex in the UK and it was there that he came into contact with the world of Artificial Life: a cross between biology, mathematics, computers, art, philosophy and engineering. He is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, attached to the School of Social Work and a researcher at the IAS-Research Centre for Life, Mind and Society. Xabier has been a founding member of the Decidim project, of which he is still a member, coordinator of Democratic Innovation and advisor to Barcelona City Council, co-founder of the Spanish Network of Research in Cognitive Sciences, co-founder of WikiToki.net (Laboratory of collaborative practices) and of the project el Buen Conocer/Flok Society.
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