====== ITESM ====== ====Alejandro Garza González==== Technology and Innovation Director, ITESM Library - Mexico Alejandro and his team have successfully developed and implemented open-source tools to leverage the library services for the Monterrey Tech Community, and they excel at it. His groups are quite savvy when it comes to Drupal and interconnecting distributed knowledge bases. BTW opensource inside ITESM is a great achievement. ==== Kali Callahan ==== Monterrey Tech, Helsinki University of Technology, Mexico - Finland Kali, researches networked communities for collective and emergent behaviors. this year he will be working on the redesign of several search engines in Monterrey tech's Course Management Software. (whereas he admits it or not, he is a knowledge junkie too) ==== .hj barraza ==== * [[http://hj.nmty.org|Blog]] Currently designing an (open) Innovation [[:Lab]] to be hosted by the Computer Science Department at ITESM. The lab is a place where forward looking students, researchers and professionals can creating solutions to design a sustainable future. ====== Learning 2.0 ====== ==== Florence Meichel ==== I'm an independent consultant in education 2.0 and learning 2.0 and based in the UK, living in Milton Keynes. I have some blogs and work in the network Apprendre 2.0 on NING * the first blog is about technologies in education and learning: [[http://blogveilleflorencemeichel.blogspot.com/]] * the second is about general thinking about education and learning : [[http://florencemeichel.blogspot.com/]] * the third is a blog transformed in a website : I present here my research on learning network [[http://reseaux-apprenants.blogspot.com/]] * I've created a learning network of educators and and tutors here and i'm now very active in this network : [[http://apprendre2point0.ning.com]] ====== Neuronation ====== ==== Guillem Perez ==== Neuronation Autonomous University of Barcelona - Spain Guillem is currently developing a Knowledge and Collaboration Network aimed to pre-university students. The objective is to promote research and collaboration at early stages. He is also part of MAGMA (Associació per promoure la recerca jove) (dude, you and elizabeth huergo should definitely hook up, AIM will find MAGMA's projects with toddlers very interesting, im sure you can achieve some knowledge transfer) ==== Max Senges ==== Stanford / Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Germany, Spain, US Max researches Technologies for Network Societies and most currently he has a research project named knowledge entrepreneur: (describes the ability to recognize or create an opportunity and take action aimed at realizing the innovative knowledge practice or product.) ==== David Casacuberta ==== ====== University of Utah ====== ==== tom caswell ==== ====== Mexico ====== ==== Gastón Porte ==== Hold Asociados, S.A. de C.V. Digital Illustration and motion artist as well as Information Architecture devotee. In the past, worked on a smaller scale platform similar to this one, combining web 2.0 technologies and a more commercial focus. ====== Future Progress ====== ==== Gabriel Kent ==== Technologist with technolust. Working for-profit in internet marketing to fund not-for-profit social initiatives...still working on the profit part :P * [[http://futureprogress.net]] ====== InnovaLAB Bilbao ====== ==== Greg Rivera ==== Artistscientist, new media technologist, and innovation strategist. At InnovaLAB we are creating the conditions for lab facilitators and local communities from academia, business, government and civic society to experiment, design, and develop prototypes and systems designs for regional and community development. We are interconnecting value disciplines (collaboration, design, discovery and entrepreneurship) to inform research and practice in a social and business design lab. Setting up InnovaLAB on a 35 meter boat in Bizkaia.