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She Graduated in Law by the University of Barcelona. Doctorate in Law (Apto Cum Laude) in 1995 with the thesis: El ingreso de las declaraciones-liquidaciones fuera de plazo sin requerimiento previo. In 1991, she postgraduates on "Ejecutivos De Sociedades y Expertos Tributarios", at the University College Abat Oliba. At the moment she is University Titular Professor (Department of Law) in situation of "special services" since June 2003, when she became town councilor of Barcelona City Council.

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Joan Josep Berbel Sánchez is currently the director of the Centre for Innovation and Business Development (CIDEM), a post to which he was appointed after having worked for two years as the director of the Catalan Investment Agency for the Ministry of Employment and Industry.
He was formerly the deputy director of Investment Promotion for the State Society of Industrial Shareholdings (SEPI) of the Exchequer and was the head of foreign investment studies for the Government of Catalonia.
Born in Sabadell in 1971, Berbel holds a degree in Political Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), specialising in International Relations, and also holds a Masters in Social and Political Theory from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). Joan Josep Berbel was associate lecturer at the Department of Public International Law and International Relations of Pompeu Fabra University between 1997 and 2000.

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Federico Casalegno is a social scientist with interest on the impact of networked digital technologies in human behaviour and societies. Is a Ph.D. Research Affiliate Media Lab MIT, Smart Cities Group. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology of Culture and Communication from the Sorbonne University, Paris V (July 2000), with a focus on mediated communication and social interaction in networked communities and wired cities. His latest work has been with the MIT - Media Lab on the implementation of multimedia educational technologies for innovative learning environments, doing research on social dynamics and the use of interactive tools to support community cohesion. At the MIT - School of Architecture and Planning he has been doing research related to remote collaboration, distant learning and collective shared knowledge in networked media environments. He also worked on projects regarding connected communities with Philips Design, the European Commission i3 - Intelligent Information Interfaces network and the Sorbonne University. He has been involved in research projects with pioneer and innovative cities implementing interactive technologies (Paris and Parthenay, France; Blacksburg, Va, USA) doing ethnographic research on users experience in new media environment, monitoring networked communication technology services and the synergy between digital information, community and physical places. He recently published a book Memoria Quotidiana. Comunità e comunicazione nell'era delle reti (Everyday memory. Community and communication the era of networks) exploring the synergy between the evolution of new media, social memory, knowledge and connected communities.

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Since 2001 he is teacher at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), President of the IN3's Scientific Commission and President of the Advisory Council of the UOC's PhD Programme. He got degree in Law and Economics in the University of Barcelona, Master in Law and Political Economy and Doctorate in Sociology and Human Sciences of Paris-Sorbonne University. He's been Professor in Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning in the University of California (Berkeley). He's also been visitant professor in 15 universities of Europe, Asia, South America and the United States. His main work is the trilogy Information era: economy, society and culture, originally published in English by Blackwell. His lasts works are Internet Galaxy, published in 2001 by Oxford University Press and Information society and welfare state: The Finland model, co-author, (Oxford University Press, 2002). In 2003, Manuel Castells co-directs with Imma Tubella the Internet Catalonia Project (PIC). It analyzes, empirically, interaction between information technologies and communication, and society, enterprises and Catalan Institutions. Based on the sociologic survey made, they published the book The network society in Catalonia (La Rosa dels Vents/Mondadori, 2003).

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Chalmers is responsible for the Google Enterprise Professional programme in Europe. Google Enterprise Professional is a technical and sales partnership which enables leading Value Added Resellers, Consultants, Systems Inegrators and Document and Knowledge management professionals to leverage the power of Google's Enterprise search in the solutions they deliver to customers. He has been working with Google Search Appliance and Google Enterprise technologies since their launch in Europe in October last year in his prior role as a Sales Engineer. Previously, Chalmers joined Microsoft as a graduate from Southampton University where he completed a Masters degree in Management Sciences. Prior to undertaking further studies, David held roles with Open Text Ltd, a provider of Intranet and Collaboration solutions and the University of Tasmania. He holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science.

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Graduate of Economics Sciences and Business Studies of Barcelona University (UB). She has, moreover, studies in Physical Sciences. Continente is nowadays Secretary for Telecommunications and Information Society. From February 2004 to May 2006 she's been the General Director for Citizen Attention. From 1993 to 2003 she was Head of Communication and Customer Service and Head of Internet Management at Barcelona City Council. Also in Barcelona City Council she was Assistant Manager of the Barcelona Institute of Culture, and Head of economic promotion and co-ordination of the Strategic Plan for Poble Sec, in the Sants Montjuic district of Barcelona City Council. From 1987 to 1993 she has been on the State Administration as Executive Advisor of the Ministry of Culture and Technical Director of the Youth Institute. Continente started working on the Public Administration in 1983, when she was Head of Youth departament at Santa Coloma de Gramenet City Council.

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William H. Dutton is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He was previously a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, which he joined in 1980, where he was elected President of the Faculty. In the UK, he was a Fulbright Scholar 1986-87, and was national director of the UK 's Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT) from 1993 to 1996. Among his recent publications on the social aspects of information and communication technologies are:

• Society on the Line(Oxford University Press, 1999)
• Digital Academe, editat amb Brian D. Loader (Taylor & Francis Routledge, 2003)
• Social Transformation in the Information Society (Paris: UNESCO for the WSIS Series, 2004)
• Transforming Enterprise, edited by Dutton, Brian Kahin, Ramon O'Callaghan and Andrew W. Wyckoff (MIT Press, 2005)

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Ramón García-Bragado Acín is responsible for Secretariat of the Presidential Department of the Government of Catalonia. In addition, he is associated professor in Administrative Law area in the Faculty of Law, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona. He has been Manager of Urbanism of the Barcelona City Council and Delegated Advisor of the 22@ project. Previously, García-Bragado was General Manager of Localret and in this position he codirected the Catalan Information Society Strategic Plan, Catalunya en Xarxa.

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William J. Mitchell, Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, holds the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. (1954) Professorship and directs the Media Lab's Smart Cities research group. He was formerly Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning and Head of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, both at MIT. He teaches courses and conducts research in design theory, computer applications in architecture and urban design, and imaging and image synthesis.

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He holds a degree in Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. As a professional, he was replacement judge at District Court no. 2 in Manresa, (1985), an expert on Manresa Chamber of Trade and Industry as the person in charge of Trade Fairs (1985-1987), manager of the Cercs Consortium for Training and Initiatives, an organisation that the Ministry of Employment and Industry of the Government of Catalonia and Barcelona Provincial Council form part of (1987-1989), and has been a practicing specialist in administrative, company and labour law at the "Valls, Cots & Gerónimo Advocats Associats" association of lawyers, specialising in administrative, company and labour law (1989-1993). He has been the mayor of Manresa Town Council since 1995 and has been chairman of Localret, the Local Consortium for the Development of Telecommunications and New Technology Networks since 1999.
He is also a member of the National Executive of the PSC (Socialist Party of Catalonia). He was formerly a councillor on Manresa Town Council (1988-1995), member of the Board of Governors of the Hospitals Consortium of Catalonia (1995-1999), chairman of the Treasury Commission and vice chairman of the Catalonia Federation of Municipalities (1995-1999) and member of the Social Council of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).

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