Ismael Peña-López

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Lecturer
Public Policies for Development
School of Law and Political Science
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

PhD in the Information and Knowledge Society. Bachelor in Economics. Master en ecoaudit and environmental planning. Specialist postdegre in Knowledge Management. DEA in Political Science.

His main field of interest is twofold. On one hand — and due to a personal philosophy of life — the aspects related with Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D): e-Readiness, the Digital Divide, ICTs in cooperation for development, nonprofit technology, online volunteering, e-Inclusion. On the other hand — and due to a professional engagement in the field — the aspects related with e-Learning and empowerment: digital capacity building and literacy, e-Portfolios, Open Access, Open Science, Access to Knowledge. When both ends meet, the conjunction is perfect.

Founding member and director for five years of UOC’s cooperation for development programme, mainly about e-learning for development. He is editor of ICTlogy.

Recent works

Peña-López, I. (2009). Darwin a la societat de la informació: adaptació (i beneficis) o extinció. Conference within the cycle Sessions web. 16a sessió web. CEJFE, 10th June 2009. Barcelona: ICTlogy.
Peña-López, I. (2009). Goverati: New competencies for politics, government and participation. Seminar at the Course: Digital Competences: Knowledge, skills and attitudes for the Network Society. CUIMPB, 16th July 2009. Barcelona: ICTlogy.
Peña-López, I. (2009). Measuring digital development for policy-making: Models, stages, characteristics and causes. PhD Thesis. [mimeo]
Peña-López, I. (2009). “The personal research portal: web 2.0 driven individual commitment with open access”. In Hatzipanagos, S. & Warburton, S. (Eds.),
Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies, Chapter XXVI, 400-414. Hershey: IGI Global.
Peña-López, I. (2009). “Towards a comprehensive definition of digital skills”. In ICTlogy, March 2009, (66). Barcelona: ICTlogy.
Peña-López, I. (2008). “Web 2.0 and Open Access”. In Canessa, E. & Zennaro, M. (Eds.), Science Dissemination using Open Access. A compendium of selected literature on Open Access, Chapter 11, 97-112. Trieste: ICTP.
Peña-López, I. (2007). “The personal research portal: web 2.0 driven individual commitment with open access for development”. In
Knowledge for Management Journal, 3 (1), 35-48. Amsterdam: KM4Dev Community.