Our lecturers in ICT Innovation for Development

Paola Fava

Gnucoop

After five years of experience in project management in developing countries (mhealth ICT4D included), she founded Gnucoop. Her background is both technical (Biomedical Engineering) and social (International cooperation).

Anahi Ayala Iacucci

Internews Network

She is a consultant in multimedia innovation for Internews Network. She focuses on the use of ICT4D, new technologies and interactive mapping systems, such as OCHA, Alliance Guinea ONG, Freedom House and the World Bank. She is also a crowdsourcing and information system specialist for the World Bank and a consultant for the Popular Engagement Policy Lab insofar as short message and mobile technology are involved. Follow her on her blog: http://crisismapper.wordpress.com

Gianluca Iazzolino

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

A journalist with extensive experience in Latin America, Russia, and the Middle East (especially Iran and Israel/Palestine). At the moment, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the Center of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh where he researches mobile technology adoption among Somali refugees in Kenya.

Georges L. J. Labrèche

Open Data Kosovo

A problem solver, entrepreneur, and the founder of the Balkan’s leading civic-tech organization: Open Data Kosovo (ODK). He holds a Bachelor degree in Engineering and a Master degree in International Relations so he constantly busies himself with ideas that merge technology, good governance, and social impact.

Not stopping short at delivering civic-tech solutions for partner organizations around the world, Georges’ team at ODK mentors Kosovo’s tech savvy youth into providing digital solutions to local governance challenges.

Alessia Messuti

ITC-ILO

She is an instructional designer with a focus on technologies for learning. From 2009, she collaborates with public and private organizations in designing educational experiences for adults. At the moment she strategizes mobile learning in developing countries for ITC-ILO and coordinates the “Mobile Workplace Learning” research project, supported by the University of Turin and the Open University of the Netherlands.

Giuliano Ramat

GIS4Change and GVSig

Founding member of a professional association known as GISMAP and gvSIG member, he is a major expert in data gathering, usage and processing in GIS environments in developing countries. For over 15 years he has worked on Geographical information systems and remote sensing, both in Italy and Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa. At the moment, he is the local manager of the project pertaining to Italian Development Cooperation in Afghanistan.

Simone Sala

FAO

From 2004 on, he focuses on the research and practice of applying ICT to sustainable development. He worked with universities (Columbia University, MIT IDI, UniMi, USI-Lugano), NGOs, FAO and Italian Development Cooperation in Africa, Asia, Caribbeans and Middle East.

Ron Salaj

UNICEF and ONG 2.0

Human rights and environmental activist. Since 2010, Ron has been leading the Digital team of UNICEF Innovations Lab Kosovo (ILK), a unit of UNICEF Kosovo, where they look across sectors and fields to identify methods, technologies, and tools that promise to advance our service to children and youth. He also co-lead Citizen Science project in Kosovo, where he is responsible for coordinating the work between different youth-led committees, partners and stakeholders from Kosovo’s civil society organization, media outlets, and institutions.

Our lecturers in previous classes

Paolo Attivissimo

Journalist

He is a Computer Science Journalist and author of over 12 popular books on computer science journalism. He also works with the Swiss television on the subject of new technologies and is a blogger disproving myths around computer science. His website (Antibufala.info) got in touch with over 8 million visitors.

Giuliano Ambrosio

JuliusDesign.net

He is a freelance Web Creative Strategist, who runs the JuliusDesign.net blog rapidly becoming one of the main Italian pillars for communication, social media and design. He did freelance work for famous brands, such as Abarth, Gillette and Motivi.

Anna Avidano

National Autonomous University of Mexico

She specialized in Gender Studies at UNAM (Mexico) and has been working on projects fighting gender violence in Guatemala for CISV since dal 2007. For CISV, she was the Latin America Desk up to 2014. At this moment, she is enrolled in a Master of Social Anthropology in Mexico.

Sirkku Männikkö Barbutiu

Stockholm University, Sveden

Sirkku Männikkö Barbutiu is a senior lecturer and director of graduate studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interest is in the areas of ICT for development and ICT in education. As a trained anthropologist she applies a critical and participatory perspective in her research.

Giulia Barbieri

Non Profit Factory

She specialized in fundraising for nonprofit and public associations, and in 2013 she co-founded the Non Profit Factory. In the past, she was community manager for ShinyNote.com. She now supports small and medium enterprises and small nonprofit in their fundraising endeavours and online communication.

Andrea Bessone

NGO Consortium of Piedmont

He consults for the NGO Consortium of Piedmont, and worked in Africa for CISV, where he managed projects for rural development and environmental protection. He promotes educational programmes for the institutional support of NGOs of Piedmont and some identification missions in African countries.

Maurizio Bricola

IICD

From 2005 on, he started working in ICT for Development for the Regional Office for Central America and Caribbean of the Italian Cooperation in Guatemala along with local indigenous organizations and International NGOs, like Oxfam GB, Save the Children USA, CRS and World Vision. In 2013, he became the Technical Advisor Solutions and Innovation for the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD), which gave him the opportunity to work in Africa.

Paolo Brunello

Trainer

Paolo Brunello is an experienced trainer who has spent 5 years in Burundi, working in several ICT4Education projects. His last project is the subject of his Ph.D. research, which explored the under investigated organisational and intercultural sides of ICT4Education.

Carlos Costa

Università degli studi di Roma Tre

He is a professor at the Roma Tre University, teaching the “Cooperation and design for development: project design” class. He is an educator and consultant for designing, managing, measuring and evaluating international cooperation projects. He is in charge of the Education, cooperation and development website.

Luca Conti

Blogger

He is a WWF activist, blogger, university professor and writer. He opened his first blog in 2001 when he started to study social media and social networking, due to a change in communications happening in the nonprofit world. He write on this topic for Vita.

Mattia Dell’Era

Responsabile Web e New Media

Web and New Media manager for SOS Villaggi dei Bambini ONLUS, he has been into projects revolving around the web, e-commerce, communication and markering since 1999. He is specialized in implementing and managing digital, social and e-commerce projects geared to improving performance and brand reputation. He authors the blog: mattiadellera.it

Lucia De Smaele

Focsiv

She is the Human Resource Manager for FOCSIV within its Volunteering Office. Since 1999, he is active in international volunteering and gained extensive experience in orienting new volunteers to cooperation. For FOCSIV, he managed the first International Volunteering information desk in Italy.

Illac Diaz

"A liter of light" project

He is a social entrepreneur and Young Global Leader 2008 nominee. Along with the MyShelter foundation, he started the “a liter of light” project using solar bottles in lieu of lamps, therefore saving millions of pesos in electricity bills.

Paolo Ferrara

Terre des Hommes

He is the person in charge of communication and fundraising for Terre des Hommes. In 2007, he started studying the way social networks shape communication, then, in 2011, he published the first Italian book on online fundraising.

Sara Fischetti

Cisv

She is a veterinarian who worked for Cisv. She has lived in Africa for seven years, and worked as a project leader for rural development projects, as well as those identifying and designing new farming projects, particularly about pastoralism.

Maurizio Foderà

Foderà Applied Topography Consulting

Owner of Foderà Applied Topography Consulting since 1995, his interests are geared around Geographic Information Systems. He implements GIS and WebGIS systems for both public and private organizations. He also is an educator. Finally, he co-authored several articles on GIS and Topography, created KARTOBLOG and became a partner to GISMAP.

Riccardo Friede

Fundraiser

He is a Fundraiser for the Cav. Guido Gini foundation and the person in charge of coordinating Assif (Associazione Italiana Fundraiser) Triveneto group. He holds a Master in Fundarising for nonprofits and public sector. Keen on developing his understanding of the Internet, he authors the fundraisingkmzero.it, blog about fundraising for small and medium nonprofits.

Giulio Frigieri

The Guardian, The Observer

He is a journalist and information designer for the British newspapers The Guardian and The Observer. He is also active with Human Rights Watch for the use of infographics in human rights communication. Frigieri collaborated with organizers and editors as reputable as Le Monde Diplomatique, UNEP, and Zanichelli.

Robin Good

Master New Media

He made the web his sole source of income after working for 15 years for FAO and other UN agencies in taking care of their branding. Nowadays, over 30,000 read their news daily in four language. Since 1999, Good has been MasterNewMedia founder and editor, an online magazine helping non-tekkies to take advantage of the Internet.

Simona Guida

Cisv

Since 2006, she has worked for CISV Italy as main go-to person for Senegal, where she has lived for 5 years. At that time, she was the Project Lead in projects about rural development, support to associationism, identification and design of new projects and country coordinator.

Giacomo Rambaldi

CTA

He is a Senior Programme Coordinator for the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation in Wageningen. He worked for various international organization, most notably FAO and the Asian Development Bank. He also founded the Participatory Avenues portal (for spreading knowledge about mapping) and a worldwide participative cartography professional network.

Alberto Mattei

Journalist

He is an online publisher, communication expert and freelance consultant for web project development. He also founded the Nomadi Digitali community.

Bernardo Parrella

Global Voices Online

He is a journalist, translator, and media and digital culture activist living in the United States. Since 2008, he has worked in several international projects, particularly the ones from Global Voices Online, as an editor, author and Italian team manager. He recently translated “Collective obsessions: a social media critique " by Geert Lovink (Egea/Bocconi).

Federico Perotti

Cisv President

He applied Engineering to international cooperation. In so doing, he worked for CISV and became its president. He managed some field research projects, one in Burundi and others in Mali, Senegal and Burkina Faso, where he was an area manager. He teaches for Politecnico of Turin and ISPI.

Francesco Santini

Grantmaking officier

A grantmaking officer for Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna foundation, he builds websites for nonprofits. In 2007, he graduated as Web Marketing Specialist from the Madri Internet Marketing programme. His activities are based on open-source (or low cost) tools to ease the access of nonprofit organizations to the internet and online repositories.

Ugo Vallauri

The Restart Project

He co-founded The Restart Project, a social enterprise whose goal is to change our relationship with technology by teaching people to use their devices for a longer time. The Restart Project sets up the so-called “restart parties” , momental workshops in which citizens would bring their broken electronic devices to learn the tips and tricks to repair them from volunteer techies. Vallauri has more than ten years of experience in international cooperation, ICT and communication for development under his belt.

Claudia Vago

Social Media Curator

Known on Twitter as @tigella, she focuses on the history of art and cinema, as a social media curator on Twitter. She managed the yearinhashtag.com project, a multimedia showcase of 2011 main news viewed through the lenses of tweets, pictures and videos shared on social media. She monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement from Chicago.

Marten Schoonman

Akvo

Marten is technical account manager @ Akvo.org. He facitilates aid organisations in successfully using modern technologies in order to help make their data processing and reporting more efficient and transparent.

Augusto Valeriani

University of Bologna

Professor at the University of Bologna, he is Associate Fellow of the Arab Media Centre of the Anneberg School for Communication-University of Pennsylvania. He authored books such as “Arab journalism” , “ A Hussein at the White House. What the Arab world thinks of Barack Obama” . He can be followed on Twitter @barbapreta

Livio Vivanet

Trustup.eu

He founded Trust up (trustup.eu), after his years as management trainer for C.Levis (Milano) and management consultant for various corporations. Today he freelances as business strategist and executive coach due to the broad experience he developed in business of different sizes and sectors, from industrial to tertiary, from SMEs to web startups from Sylicon Hill, Austin.