Ponentes y organizadores
Ahmad Shahzad - Bytes for all, Pakistan
Shahzad works in the area of ICT policy advocacy, internet censorship, surveillance, privacy and freedom of expression.
As Country Coordinator of Bytesforall in Pakistan, Shahzad manages Pakistan’s ICT Policy Monitors Network. Currently, he is working on different research projects including a research on surveillance and censorship on the internet and in mobile telephony space.
Shahzad serves on the Board of ccTLD .PK and a council representative to Association for Progressive Communications. He also serves on the International Advisory Board of Privacy International, UK.
Ahmed Swapan Mahmud - VOICE, India
As executive director and founder of VOICE, Ahmed Swapan Mahmud brings 17 years of experience managing and facilitating development programs and projects in different capacities with a special focus on research and advocacy at both the national and international levels. He also has experience in designing and planning advocacy policy and leads a number of national advocacy networks.
A recognized activist who combines knowledge of the grassroots movements with an adeptness in the policy arena, Ahmed Swapan is still engaged in social movements and progressive cultural fronts. In 2001, in collaboration with David Archer, he developed and applied and innovative new approach to education called REFLECT (Regenerative Freirian Literacy through Empowering Community Techniques) which would lead to the creation of community-based REFLECT circles for gender empowerment several years later.
He is also known as a researcher, focusing especially on issues of corporate globalization, IFIs, the WTO and TNCs. He is a regular contributor on socio-economic and political issues in the national newspapers and also for international magazines and journals.
A graduate in English Literature, Ahmed Swapan worked as a teacher at for several years and also acted as a journalist for national dailies. He has written and/or published many writings on development economics as well as creative writing - poems and literary essays.
He is a creative writer, a poet and essayist, a columnist, a critic, but above all an activist fighting against capitalist imperialist globalization and neo-liberal economic order.
Alejandro Perales - Asociación de Usuarios de la Comunicación, Spain
Alejandro Perales es presidente de la Asociación de Usuarios de la Comunicación (AUC) y coordinador del Observatorio de Contenidos Televisivos y Audiovisuales (OCTA). Representa al Consejo de Consumidores y Usuarios de España en diferentes organismos consultivos relacionados con la comunicación y la sociedad de la información. Autor de diferentes publicaciones españolas e internacionales en el ámbito de la comunicación. Es director General de Impacto, empresa especializada en el análisis del tratamiento mediático de asuntos, colectivos, organizaciones y empresas.