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
TBA
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.
James Burke
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.