Consortium members:
Adam Arvidsson
UMIL
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Alessandro Caliandro
UMIL
Alessandro Caliandro finished his PhD in sociology at the University of Milano in 2011 and is presently a post.doc at the department of Social and Political Sciences, financed by the Lombardy Region’s innovation program. Dr. Calliandro is also in charge of research at the Centro Studi Etnografia Digitale and has long experience in digital data-based social research.
Alberto Cossu
Postdoc researcher
UMIL
Alberto Cossu is a second-year PhD candidate is Sociology at the Graduate School in Social & Political Sciences (GSSPS) of the University of Milan. His thesis subject, under the direction of Adam Arvidsson and Roberta Sassatelli, deals with the role and influence of art and aesthetic practices on political mobilization and, more broadly, on the making of political cultures. His research interests include public sphere theory, social movements, radical citizenship theories, historical avant-gardes and the political economy of creative industries. He is currently Teaching Assistant within the Department of Social & Political Sciences of the University of Milan for the courses: Political Sociology (Prof. Mauro Barisione), Analysis of Public Opinion (Prof. Barisione), New Media & Communication (Prof. Arvidsson). He is one of the co-founders of one of the main Italian cultural blogs “Il lavoro culturale” (www.lavoroculturale.org).
Ann Marie Utratel
Communications Lead
P2P Foundation
A native New Yorker now living in Madrid, Spain, Ann Marie Utratel is a co-founder of Guerrilla Translation (guerrillatranslation.org), has worked with the P2P Foundation on projects such as commonstransition.org, and has been an international coordinator with the Platoniq team.
Twitter: @AMUtratel
Antonio Tapiador
Senior Developer, Researcher
UCM
Antonio Tapiador is a researcher at GRASIA / UCM. In 2013 he concluded his PhD at Technical University of Madrid, where he lead the development of Social Stream, a framework for building any kind of social network site in the web. He has participated in several EU funded research projects including iCamp (e-Learning), GLOBAL (video-conferencing) and FI-WARE (FI-PPP)
Antonio Tenorio Fornés
Developer
UCM
Antonio Tenorio Fornés is a PhD student advised by Professor Samer Hassan. His research interests include Free Software, Commons-Based Peer Production, Online Communities governance and Declarative Languages among others. He works as software developer in the P2Pvalue project.
Benjamin Loveluck
CNRS
Benjamin Loveluck holds a PhD in Politics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris), and is currently working as postdoc at the CERSA (CNRS-Paris 2).
His research interests include political practices online
and the political economy of information: new forms of collective action, social dynamics and community formation; organisational, legal, and institutional innovations; shifting conceptions of property and exchange.
He has recently published his PhD thesis under the title Networks, Freedom and Control. A Political Genealogy of the Internet (in French: Réseaux, libertés et contrôle. Une généalogie politique d'internet, Paris, Armand Colin, 2015). He also teaches at Télécom ParisTech and Sciences Po (Paris and Lille).
Danièle Bourcier
CNRS
Danièle Bourcier is Director of Research at CERSA (CNRS - University Paris II) in the department of law and technology (eGov). She is associated professor on Computers & Law (Université de Paris I and Paris 10) and has been research fellow in Sweden, The Netherlands, and Austria. She has published many books and papers in the domains of artificial intelligence, complex systems and linguistics applied to law (lex electronica). She is involved in several European projects on governance, risk and democracy. She is also the Scientific Director of Creative Commons France.
David Rozas
PhD student, Posgraduate researcher
University of Surrey
David is currently studying a PhD under the supervision of Professor Nigel Gilbert and Dr Paul Hodkinson. His research concerns individual involvement and group dynamics of Commons-Based Peer Production communities, focussing on the development community for Free/Libre Open Source Software Drupal. He is following an ethnographic approach, and using Activity Theory as a theoretical framework. He is also collaborating with the FP7 EU project P2Pvalue, which is funding his studies. His previous research was conducted within the FP7 EU project QLectives (Quality Collectives) at the University of Surrey, and the FP6 EU project ASTRA (Awareness Services and Systems – Towards Theory and Realization) at Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet (Trondheim, Norway). He previously worked as a Technical lead in several social, educational and cultural projects based on Drupal for the company Educatic (Madrid, Spain), becoming an active member of the Drupal community in Spain. Research interests: Free/Libre Open Source Software, Commons-Based Peer Production, Open Collaboration, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Organisational studies, Virtual Ethnography, Activity Theory
Danny Spitzberg
Marketing Lead
UCM
Danny Spitzberg, Principal at Peak Agency, leads a collaborative team of community organizers and strategists based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Danny has helped dozens of cultural and economic justice groups launch digital and community initiatives, including the Lean Startup Co., Loconomics, and SoleSpace. Learn more at www.peakagency.co.
Elanor Colleoni
Elena Martínez
Design Lead
UCM
UX Designer & Visual Storyteller Creating emotional connections between people and machines since 2007
Enric Senabre Hidalgo
Researcher
UAB
I’m working on research methodologies and Agile frameworks for the development of Digital Commons at the Dimmons Research Group (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute). Previously I was an active member of the Platoniq collective, co-founder and project manager at the platform Goteo.org for civic crowdfunding, where I specialised in facilitating collaborative knowledge management, learning methodologies and Design Thinking strategies for civic impact. I have been vice-president of the Observatory for CyberSociety and associated professor of Software Studies at the Open University of Catalonia, where I hold a Master’s Degree in the Information and Knowledge Society. I’m a certified Scrum Master by the Scrum Alliance, a facilitator role I have been implementing for different international projects, like Europeana Creative or the Connected Action for the Commons network (European Cultural Foundation). I have also worked as a coordinator of the City and Collaboration department at Citilab-Cornellà and as online content coordinator of the Infonomía network, as well as implemented eLearning projects and open educational resources for various institutions, including the Mozilla Foundation.
Elsa Soro
UAB
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Francesca Musiani
Francesca Musiani is currently the Yahoo! Fellow in Residence at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, Washington, DC (USA), where she teaches in the Master of Science in Foreign Service. She collaborates with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and she is an affiliate post-doctoral researcher at the Center for the Sociology of Innovation at MINES ParisTech, where she conducted her doctoral work in socio-economics of innovation between 2008 and 2012. Her research explores Internet governance as the set of mechanisms that lead different participants in the technical, political and economic management of the “network of networks” to build common knowledge, legitimize some of it as “facts” of the Internet, and shape limits and boundaries able to reconcile the concerns of both experts and users. She is Section Head of the Emerging Scholars Network of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and outreach officer of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet).
Ignasi Capdevila
Ignasi Capdevila is a PhD Candidate at HEC Montréal, where he is a current member of MosaiC, the Creativity & Innovation Hub. He has worked for more than twelve years in the automotive industry in Spain, France, Germany and Sweden as responsible for the development of new products and as head of the department of new projects. Ignasi holds two engineer diplomas, from UPC (Spain) and INPL (France), and a MBA from ESADE Business School. His research interests include localized knowledge creation and transfer, knowledge communities, creativity and innovation management in organizations and cities.
Javier Arroyo
Associate Professor
UCM
Javier Arroyo is Associate Professor in University Complutense of Madrid. He holds a PhD in Computer Science by the Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid (Spain). His main research interests are Data Analysis, Forecasting, Agent-Based Modelling.
Juan Pavón
Professor
UCM
Juan Pavón, Full Professor, obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science from Universidad Politécnica Madrid (1988). From 1987 to 1997 he was been working in R&D departments of Alcatel in Spain, France and Belgium, and in Bellcore (USA), in the development of component-based architectures for distributed systems. He has founded and leads the GRASIA research group at UCM. He is the author of more than 100 publications in Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, and Telecommunications, which have received more than 1800 citations (h-index=18).
Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado
Postdoctoral researcher
UAB
Jorge L Salcedo is researcher and consultant on the visibility of policy actors on the Web. He has advanced training in using digital data to analyse social and political phenomena. One of his main areas of interest and research is social media and collective action.He concluded his PhD dissertation about visibility of policy actors on the Web and intellectual property debate on internet, at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. In 2010 he was visiting scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute. His master thesis was about cooperation and collective action on FOSS communities. He has been member of different research projects about the Internet and political effects.
http://uab.academia.edu/JorgeLuisSalcedoMaldonado
Email JorgeLuis.Salcedo(at)uab.cat and jorgelsalcedo(at)gmail.com
Joan Subirats
UAB
Joan Subirats has a background in economics and is currently a Professor of Political Science and Researcher and Director of the PhD Program of the IGOP. His research fields include Policy Analysis, Democratic Innovation, Public Participation and local and regional government. He has published many books including Another society, another politics (2012), and Spanish Urban Policies (2011).
Karthik Jayaraman
Karthik is a technology strategist and PhD researcher based in Oslo. He spent the past decade working for the top four open source companies:Red Hat, SuSE (Novell), terrasoftsolutions (yellow dog linux) and Sun Microsystems. Through his work, Karthik assisted fortune 500 companies and governments to adopt open source and open standards based technologies, he has been an integral part of the digital commons movement right from its early days and is active in various debates involving open knowledge, open data and governance of the commons.
Karthik is currently pursuing a PhD degree and also holds an MBA from BI- Norwegian Business School and Fudan University, China; a Master of Science in Information Technology from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden and a four-year bachelor's degree in computer engineering from India.
Karthik’s field of expertise is open source, open innovation and other forms of commons based peer production. His research interests are centered around open source design and economics where he is researching the governance of open design commons and how it can overcome limitations such as planned obsolescence and limited reuse posed by the existing firm based production model. The second part of his research is centered around the systems and structures of peer / local currencies such as Bitcoin and the Urstromtaler. The third part of his research focuses on open innovation in networked industries, where his unit of analysis is the management of shared innovation commons in the open source Android project.
Kevin Flanagan
P2P Foundation
P2P Foundation
Kevin Flanagan is an Irish artist and activist with 10 years experience in event management and film production. He has a special interest in collaborative and P2P cultural practices. As a P2P advocate he has lectured and sat on panel discussions on digital culture. He is a regular contributor to the P2P Foundation Blog.
He holds a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster in Belfast, Northern Ireland where he specialized in photography and film. As a member of 091 Labs he has been actively involved in the Irish Hackerspace community. Responding to Ireland’s economic crisis he co-organized Reset Ireland, a public forum for citizen dialogue on issues of Government Transparency, Employment, Environment and Health. In May 2011 he organized the Mindfield Hackerspace with a 3 day program of workshops, lectures and panel discussions as part of the Mindfield Festival of Ideas in Dublin. As a founding member of the Irish Artists Collective Enso, he organized regular cultural events in the city of Galway between 2004 and 2006, including visual arts exhibitions, film screenings and live music/performance events. As an independent artist and film maker he has exhibited in Ireland and internationally having his first solo exhibition at the Galway Arts Center in 2010. He has collaborated on a number of film productions, including short films and documentaries. His work has received the support of the Arts Council of Ireland.
Kevin is currently developing participatory video workshops for community
advocacy.
Lu Yang
Project Manager
University of Surrey
Lu holds a Masters degree in Information Systems from the University of Southampton and she has background in Accounting and Finance.
Maitrayee Deka
Maitrayee Deka is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the EU FP7 project P2PValue at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan. She has done her MPhil in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics and PhD in Sociology from the University of Milan. Her research interests are Pirate Economy, Bazaars, New Media and Economic Sociology.
Michel Bauwens
President
P2P Foundation
Michel Bauwens is president and founder of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He has co-produced the 3-hour TV documentary Technocalyps with Frank Theys, and co-edited the two-volume book on anthropology of digital society with Salvino Salvaggio. Michel is currently Primavera Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and external expert at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2008, 2012). Michel Bauwens is a member of the Board of the Union of International Associations (Brussels), advisor to Shareable magazine (San Francisco) and to Zumbara Time Bank (Istanbul). He functions as the Chair of the Technology/ICT working group, Hangwa Forum (Beijing, Sichuan), to develop economic policies for long-term resilience, including through distributed manufacturing. Michel writes editorials for Al Jazeera English and is listed at #82, on the Post-Carbon Institute (En)Rich list. He is a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group. In his first business career, Michel worked for USIA, British Petroleum, Riverland Publications, Belgacom, and created two internet start-ups.
Marco Berlinguer
UAB
Marco Berlinguer is researcher on new forms of economy particularly in the intersection between social economy and the knowledge and information economy. He contributed to the creation of the "School of the commons".
Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay
CNRS
Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay is a permanent researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) working on the international governance of digital commons and access to knowledge. Permanent researcher at the CNRS Institute for Communication Sciences, Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science Department of Media and Communications, associated researcher at CERSA (CNRS University Paris 2), where she is Creative Commons France legal lead since 2003. She co-founded in 2011 Communia international association on the digital public domain, which she currently chairs. She is teaching copyright law and participating to research projects on commons-based peer-production, public sector information, distributed architectures, open scientific data and public domain digitization. A graduate in political sciences and a PhD in law, she was a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society of Harvard Law School and at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam. Her publications are available at http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article1558
Mayo Fuster Morell
UAB
Mayo Fuster Morell is currently a postdoctoral researcher at IGOP where she coordinates IGOPnet.cc resaerch group on Internet, politics, commons and social innovation. At IGOP, she is the principal investigator of the P2Pvalue project. Additionally, she is Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where she is part of the CBPP group overseen by Yochai Benkler. In 2010, she concluded her PhD thesis at the European University Institute in Florence on the governance of common-based peer production, and have numerous publications in the field. She is member of the group on Internet and Politics of the European Consortium of Political Science, member of the Research Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and member of the Spanish Chapter and Advocacy Board of the Open Knwoledge Foundation.
Nigel Gilbert
Project Coordinator
University of Surrey
Professor of Sociology and Director of CRESS, has a first degree in Engineering, and a doctorate in Sociology. He has been successful in obtaining research funding for 16 Framework Programme projects since 1989 as coordinator or as consortium member. He is Editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation and has written and edited twenty one books and about 160 academic papers on topics ranging from the sociology of science to the computerisation of social security benefits and human computer interaction. He is an author of the standard textbook on social simulation, Simulation for the Social Scientist (Open University Press, second edition, 2005, with Klaus G. Troitzsch), and more recently, Agent-based models (Sage Publication, 2007), and is editor of Computational Social Science (four volumes, Sage, 2010).
Primavera De Filippi
CNRS
Primavera De Filippi is a researcher at the CERSA / CNRS / Université Paris II. She is currently a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, where is investigating the concept of "governance by design" as it relates to online distributed architectures. Primavera holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, where she explored the legal challenges of copyright law in the digital environment. Primavera is an administrator of the Communia association for the public domain, a coordinator at the Open Knowldege Foundation and legal expert for Creative Commons in France.
Pablo Ojanguren
Senior Developer, PMP
UCM
IT Project Manager and Software Developer in Content Management, SOA and J2EE technologies
Rubén Martinez Moreno
Rubén Martínez Moreno is co-founder of the cultural innovation platform ZZZINC and is developing his PhD thesis at IGOP on the relations between social innovation and the commons.
David Llop (Sem)
Front-end developer
UCM
David Llop is a free software developer and a student of the Master's Degree in ICT Security offered by Open University of Catalonia. He has worked as a developer in various free software projects, such as Lorea (n-1.cc), which is a social network for activists, and DarkWallet, a Bitcoin wallet that empowers user's privacy. Right now, he is working in the Teem application while he is finishing his master in cybersecurity.
Samer Hassan
Technical team lead
UCM
Samer Hassan (PhD) is an activist and researcher, Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University) and Associate Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). Currently focused on decentralized collaboration, he has carried out research in decentralized systems, social simulation and artificial intelligence from positions in the University of Surrey (UK) and the American University of Science & Technology (Lebanon). Coming from a multidisciplinary background in Computer Science and Social Sciences, he has more than 45 publications in those fields. Engaged in free/open source projects, he co-founded the Comunes Nonprofit and the Move Commons webtool project. He's an accredited grassroots facilitator and has experience in multiple communities and grassroots initiatives. He's involved as UCM Principal Investigator in the EU-funded P2Pvalue project on building decentralized web-tools for collaborative communities and social movements. His research interests include Commons-based peer production, decentralized architectures, online communities, grassroots social movements & cyberethics. Follow Samer on Twitter: @samerP2P
Stacco Troncoso
Strategic Director
P2P Foundation
Stacco Troncoso (Spain) is the strategic direction steward of the P2P Foundation as well as the project lead for Commons Transition, the P2PF’s main communication and advocacy hub. He is also co-founder of the P2P translation collective Guerrilla Translation and designer/content editor for CommonsTransition.org, the P2P Foundation blog and the new Commons Strategies Group website. His work in communicating commons culture extends to public speaking and relationship-building with prefigurative communities, policymakers and potential commoners worldwide.
Vasilis Kostakis
Senior Research Fellow
P2P Foundation
Vasilis Kostakis is Senior Research Fellow (tenured) at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, as well as visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam and visiting Scholar at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is also Founder of the interdisciplinary research hub P2P Lab and Research Coordinator of the P2P Foundation. Further, he sits on the boards of commons-oriented start-ups, such as Bitmind.co and OpenBionics.org, and open access referred journals, such as TripleC, Journal of Peer Production and Engaging Science, Technology, and Society.
Vasilis Niaros
Sustainability lead, research director
P2P Foundation
Vasilis Niaros is an urbanist, regional planner and engineer as well as PhD candidate (expected in early 2016) at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology. His research interests include open source technologies, "smart city", makerspaces, IoT and do-it-yourself culture. He is also the Funding Manager of the P2P Foundation and Research Fellow at the P2P Lab.
Wouter Tebbens
UAB
Wouter Tebbens, (born 6 May 1974) is a Dutch activist, researcher and social entrepreneur on Free Knowledge.