Alex Foti, born in 1966 and living in Milano with his lover and their daughter, is an online and offline editor and a demoradical activist. Promoted mayday in Milano and euromayday in Europe. He is fond of historical sociology and global ecology. Contact: alex.foti(at)gmail.com

Young parliamentarian for Bloc Esquerda working on movements in Italy and their impact on political parties. Salma Yacoob Young leading activist in Respect - independent of the SWP. A progressive Muslim working in psychology and a criticlathinker towards both Respect and Islam.

My first contact with social movements was as an activist “I was a volunteer for Greenpeace and Amnesty International in Greece from 1996 to 2001. In 2001, I moved to London and soon started to study social movements from a media and communications perspective. I was recently awarded a doctorate by the School of Media, Arts & Design of the University of Westminster. My thesis investigated the role of the internet in the preparation of the 2004 European Social Forum focusing on the processes of internal organizing, decision-making and collective identity construction. I was involved in the European Social Forum process also as an activist… I participated in the working group for ‘Memory and Systematization’. I am currently employed as a post-doctoral researcher in the University of Westminster.

Ángel Calle is currently working in Córdoba, Spain, at the Instituto de Estudios Sociales de Andalucía. They are involved at DEMOS project, which studies in six different countries the nature and goals of these sort of movements in Europe (see demos.iue.it). He has published some articles and a book, Nuevos movimientos Globales (Madrid, Editorial Popular, 2005), claiming that a “radical democracy” wave is allowing new cycles of “alterglobalisation” protests. At the same time, he is quite involved in these networks as an activist. Contact: angel.calle(at)nodo50.org

During my short time as an academic and an activist I have seen myself shift from a hippie philosophy student at the University of Liverpool to an anarcho-curious libertarian communist geographer in London. Currently at Queen Mary Unviersity of London, I am undertaking PhD research into the geographies of anarchistic organisational strategies in theory and practice. I am also a member of the Anarchist Studies Network, a specialist research group of the Political Studies Association. Outside of ‘work’, I live with my beautiful girlfriend, I am active in my union, the (small but growing) IWW, and regularly find myself involved in converting derelict squatted buildings into free social and community spaces. Contact a.ince(at)qmul.ac.uk.

Italian. Journalist, cognitive psychologist and CMC teacher in the University of Rome La Sapienza, media activist and commoner. I’ve worked for the italian public television Rai3 and La Repubblica, Il Manifesto, Liberazione, l’Unità Aprile and other national newspapers. Former director of the magazine Il Secolo Della Rete, also available in digital at www.ilsecolodellarete.it under a creative commons licence. Author and editor of various books, I’ve written the books ‘Hacktivism’ with Tommaso Tozzi and ‘The Privatisation of Life. Patents, monopolies, multinationals, the alternatives to the merchandising of the world) with Vandana Shiva and others. Also author of TV documentaries for Rai 3, I made the first italian enquiry-documentary about free software “Revolution OS II” under c/c licence, published by Apogeo/Feltrinelli. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Di_Corinto Contact: www.dicorinto.it

Branka Curcic is a member of kuda.org, New Media Center from Novi Sad, in the Republic of Serbia (www.kuda.org). She is one of its program editors, focusing on critical approaches towards new media culture, new technologies, new cultural relations, contemporary artistic practices and social realm. She also collaborates in the Transform project of the European Institute of Progresive Cultural Policies (EIPCP) in Vienna ( www.transform.eipcp.net). Contact: brankac(at)neobee.net

A very original intellectual, from USA but leaving from a long time in Paris. He is an explorer of new fields, concepts, hybrids. He originally is an art critic. Interested in new movements and new ICT. Quite known internationally in artistic, communicative and underground circuits.

Carlo Formenti, born in 1947, living between Milano and Lecce (where is professor of New Media Theory). Working in Unions (metallurgy) from 1969 to 1974, collaborating to Political Science Institute (University of Padova) directed by Antonio Negri until 1979, journalist (Alfabeta, Europeo, Corriere della Sera) from 1980 to 1997, teacher (Science of Communication - University of Salento) from 2001, blogger (http://www.pazlab.net/formenti/). Between his last works: “Incantanti dalla Rete” (2000), “Mercanti di futuro” (2002), “Not Economy” (2003) now is working to a new book (”Cybersoviet: new media, new classes and crisis of political representation”) that will be published in 2008.

French activist researcher- Key figure in the no-global movements- Comes from IV International and SUD trade union. Worked in many international networks (Euromarches, Attac, WSF, ESF etc). He studies and publish, recently mainly on new forms of organization. Knows and work on ITC.

Used to be professor of politics Leeds Univeristy now working for the Democratic Audit, Essex Uni that did an international audit of how democratic were different political systems and with an international organisation of parliamentarians on demoratic reform of parliament. Gary Younge Radical black journalist and writer on Guardian and Red Pepper. Writes a lot on problems of political represenation as well as on race and ethnicity.British but based in Washington. Interesting perspective on contexts where political systems block representation of the left.

Italian. Proffesor in the European University of Florence. She is one of the main academic researcher on new global social movements. She is especially studying the democratic internal dimension of social movements.

http://www.eui.eu/SPS/People/Faculty/CurrentProfessors/bioDellaporta.shtml

Ezequiel (Buenos Aires, 1971) is a historian and anti-capitalist activist. He studied history at the University of Buenos Aires –where he also teaches– and has a PhD from University College London. As an activist, he has been involved in the students’ movement and, more recently, in the neighbours’ Assemblies movement that emerged in the city of Buenos Aires after the rebellion of December 2001. A member of collectives and networks of global resistance, he also participates in the process of the World Social Forum. Apart from his academic publications –mainly in the field of intellectual history– he has written extensively on issues of globalisation, anti-capitalism and Leftist politics for websites and journals from several countries. He has recently published the book Anti-capitalism for Beginners: The New Generation of Emancipatory Movements (Buenos Aires, 2003). Contact: eadamovs(at)mail.retina.ar

Bifo is an author who has been writing mostly about mediatheory and media-activism. His last book is SKIZOMEDIA, trent’anni di mediattivismo. He has been engaged in the TELESTREET project, which has given impulse to the creation of around hundred-fifty street television all over Italy. He is teaching in a school for foreign labourers in the city of Bologna, and also Social history of communication at the Accademia of fine arts of Milano. Founder of the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981), he took part in the staff of Radio Alice, the first free radio station in Italy (1976/1978). He was involved in the political movement of autonomy in Italy during the 70’s, then flied to Paris where he worked with Felix Guattari, in the field of schizoanalisis. During the 80’s, he contributed to the magazine Semiotexte (New York), Chimerees (Paris), Metropoli (Rome) and Musica 80 (Milano). In the 90’s, he published Mutazione e ciberpunk, (Genoa, 1993), Cibernauti (Rome, 1994) and Felix (Rome, 2001), as well as the rekombinant.org e-zine. Contact: franberardi(at)gmail.com

Frieder Otto Wolf, Dr. phil. habil., Honorary Professor for Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Born at Kiel in 1943, studied philosophy and political science (at Kiel, Paris, and Edinburgh), 1962-66. 1966-81: Teaching and research at the University of the Sarre, Saarbrücken, at the Free University of Berlin, at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and at the Science Centre Berlin. Since 1973: Teaching Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin. 1984-99: Active in the European Parliament for the German Greens; 1994-99 Member of the EP. Since 1999: Co-founder of “inEcom. Institute for European Communication“, Berlin. Since 2001: Co-Initiator of the German network ‘Forum for a New Politics of Labour’ 2003-06: Co-ordinator of the European Thematic Network “Sustainability Strategy”, now continued as an international network on “Sustainability Politics”.

Member of Advisory Boards of Das Argument, Historical materialism, Cosmopolitiques, Écologie et Politique. Main Publications: Die neue Wissenschaft des Thomas Hobbes, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1969; Umwege, Hannover 1983; Radikale Philosophie, Münster 2002; Arbeitsglück, Münster 2005. Co-author, with Pierre Juquin, Penny Kemp, Isabelle Stengers et. al., Europe’s Green Alternative: A Manifesto for a New World, London: Green Print 1992 [republished as: Europe’s Green Alternative: An Ecology Manifesto (Montreal, New York, London: Black Rose Books, 1996)]; Co-Author, with Gerd Peter: Welt ist Arbeit, Münster 2007. Co-Editor: Wissenschaftskritik und sozialistische Praxis, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1971; Zwischen Selbstbestimmung und Selbstausbeutung, Frankfurt 2001; Die Tätigkeit der PhilosophInnen, Münster 2003; Arbeit in der neuen Zeit, Münster 2005; Turn-around, Münster 2006; Politisierung und Ent-Politisierung als performative Praxis, Münster 2006; Das Kapital neu lesen, Münster 2006. English contributions in New Left Review; Socialist Register; Capitalism, Nature Socialism; Red Pepper.

Co-ordinates:Frieder Otto Wolf, Institut für Philosophie, Freie Universität Berlin, Thielallee 43, 14195 Berlin [pr.: Traunsteiner Str. 8, D-10781 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49302188461] e-mail: fow(at)snafu.de, website: www.friederottowolf.de

Gemma Galdon Clavell (Mataró, 1976) obtained her masters in Contemporary History and History of Africa and completed her dissertation in the United States on the Black Panther Party and the countercultural and revolutionary movements of the 60s and 70s. In 2001, back in Barcelona, she got involved in grassroots and international social movements, and began organizing campaigns for global justice, editing books and writing. Recently her research interests have moved towards countercultural movements and cultural dissent networks. After two years in Amsterdam working for TNI’s New Politics project, she is now back in B-town working on her PhD and organizing events, conferences and research projects around the subject of dissent and culture in urban public space. Biography on TNI.org.

I was born in Leeds and now live mainly in Manchester (and a little in London!) I’m co-editor - with Oscar Reyes -of Red Pepper, a monthly, independent green and feminist left magazine,based in Britain but with an transnational perpective (see www.redpepper.org.uk). And I work for the New Politics Programme of the Transnational Institute - mainly on the theme of rethinking political organisation but also on the theory and practice - and limits- of participatory democracy (www.tni.org). I’ve written or co-written several books relevant - even if tangentially - to the work of networked-politics. These include (with Sheila Rowbotham and Lynne Segal) `Beyond the Fragments; Feminism and the Making of Socialism’; `Arguments for a New Left. Answering the Free Market Right’ and most recently `Reclaim the State; Experiments in Popular Democracy’. A long time ago I also wrote several books on innovative experiments within the UK trade unions and also about the experience of the Greater London Council (glc)for which I co-ordinated a unit which was responsible for unlocking the resources and support of the local state for trade union and community struggles and alternatives.It was called the Popular Planning Unit (those were the days!).In 1986 Mrs Thatcher literally abolished the GLC - because of initiatives like the Popular Planning Unit. Otherwise my jobs have been mainly in universities (but trying to unlock their research resources for activist research with grass roots trade unions and other movements). I have also worked, on and off, as a freelance writer for the Guardian. Biography on TNI.org . Hilary’s blog: http://blog.redpepper.org.uk/hilary/ Contact: Hilary1 [at] manc.org

Inês Pereira is a sociologist, currently doing a PhD in Urban Anthropology, where she studies the establishment of networks between different social movements and the build-up (or not) of a global social movement. She has also worked on identities’ construction, associativism and new tecnhologies. She is also an activist, having passed by several associations. Nowadays, she is particularly involved with the free software movement and the fair trade movement. She is currently cooperating with Euromovements with the study of european networks. Contact: ines.pereira(at)iscte.pt / + 351 96 6634697

Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) since 2002. Before joining UOC he was lecturer of Collective Action at Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has been research scholar at Loughborough University (UK). He currently coordinates ATIC, an interdisciplinary research group concerned with the engagement of technology in social action. His current research area is aimed at the study of the role of ICT in social movements. [http://www.uoc.edu/in3/pic/eng/cv/fitxes/irodriguezgir_cv.html]

Funder editor of the “Meta Mute Magazin: Cuture and politics after the net” (http://www.metamute.org/) and specialist on intelectual property rights, londoner squater.

I was born in Vic (Catalonia, 1968) and I’m based in Vienna currently. I come from technical part of social movements in Barcelona (bcn.indymedia.org and riereta.net). I used to work, 1999-2004 as a teacher in Catalan public high schools, in Barcelona, teaching chemistry (I’m chemist), physics, and introducing collaborative knowledge tools in the departments where I was working. Currently I work as an independent researcher and free software developer in some European projects and residence programs related to public data & data visualization tools. I like technologies, specially the public use on information networks. Last year I’m investigating data visualization and data meaning techniques as an independent researcher. I use to work with collectives that analyzes and collect data about the society. I try to understand the importance of their data and to visualize it in a way that they like and understand. That’s between (or in both) social and technical sides. Currently I’m very into the development of GISS.TV video/audio free contents network.

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Young US reseracher activist. Worked in the antiauthoritarian movements some years in Barcellona and Europe (MRG - PGA - Autonomous spaces in ESF and WSF). Theorist of networked politics. Worked with Castells. Now live and work in California.

Judy Rebick was born in the U.S. but moved to Canada at age 10. Judy holds the CAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy,at Ryerson University in Toronto. This is the only union endowed chair in North America and its mandate is to create Ryerson as a hub of interaction between social justice activists and academics. As part of that mandate, she is part of organizing the Toronto Social Forum. Judy is founder of www.rabble.ca, Canada’s irreverant independent online news and discussion site. Founded during the protests against the FTAA in Quebec City, rabble continues to be the primary news and discussion site for progressive people in Canada.

Judy is the author of several books and articles, most recently Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution (Penguin 2005). She is a long-time activist in the feminist movement and was President of Canada’s largest women’s group and a leader of the pro-choice movement. She also was founder of the New Politics Initiative, an attempt to bring new politics into the electoral arena in Canada [5].

During the 1990’s, Judy was the host of a two national TV show on CBC and a frequent commentator in broadcast and print in the mainstream media. You can reach Judy at jrebick@ryerson.ca or find out more about the Gindin Chair at [www.ryerson.ca/socialjustice].

I grew up in Dublin in the 1970s and 1980s, in the shadow of capitalist modernisation, economic recession and war, was socialised into the ecology, peace, human rights and solidarity movements of the day and for the past 25 years have been active in one movement or another. For the last 15 years I’ve been working on building networks between different movements: first in green parties, then in autonomous contexts and most recently in the frameworks of the developing “movement of movements”, along with a hundred other more immediate projects and issues. I work as a sociologist, training movement activists doing action research on their own movements’ practice as well as being involved in community-based oral history projects. My two big problems at the moment are trying to build links between community activism and counter-cultural anti-capitalism, and trying to find a publisher for a book on humanist Marxism as a theory of social movement practice. I feel lucky to have seen a moment like our current movement in my own lifetime and my own city, and am determined not to let it pass without pushing things as far as we possibly can. Contact: laurence.cox(at)nuim.ie

Lluc Pelàez studied Philosophy at the University of Barcelona (UB) and get a master’s degree in Public Politics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Since 1998, he is a member of the Government and Public Politics Institute (IGOP) at the UAB. He has recently published the books “Insubmissió; moviment social i incidència política” (Ed. UAB, 1999) and “Mobilitzacions a la Barcelona del tombant de segle” (Ed. Nous Horitzons, 2006). He has also collaborated with the book “Creadores de democracia radical” (Ed. Icària, 2002), edited by Ricard Gomà and Pedro Ibarra. He has been involved, during the 90’s, in the Catalonian antimilitarist movement and, after 2000, in the global movements in Barcelona. Contact: lluc(at)impacte.com

Experience activist intellectual with a long history as a parliamentarian and political leader on the Italian Left -PCI, PDUIP, PRC and now indepependent. A founder of Il Manifesto and an early advocate of the importance of autonomous social movements, though now sometimes provocatively insistent on the importance of political parties and engagement with the state

Science writer and consultant in ICT. I started (and finished) the company Enredando.com, that published the electronic magazine en.red.ando. Since 1998, the company developed what today are known as social networks or web 2.0, i.e. information systems for online collaborative work, for virtual communities and for online knowledge management. More, here: lafh.info

Marcelo Expósito is an artist, activist, co-editor of Brumaria magazine (http://www.brumaria.net) and participant in the editorial team of transversal multilingual webjournal (http://www.transform.eipcp.net/transversal), based in Barcelona. Contact: marcelo(at)brumaria.net

Marco Berlinguer was born and lives in Rome. In the last years he contributed to the foundation of Transform! Italia and of different European and International networks as: Transform! Europe; Euromovements; Eurotopia; The Network for the Charter for Another Europe, Newtorked Politics, Labor and Globalization. He is mainly engaged in studying and experimenting new forms of connection between social and political action and research; and between new forms of production of information, knowledge and communication and the production of new forms of alternative and trasformative subjectivity. In the last years he edited: “World Social forum: A Debate On the Challenges for Its Future” (2003); “La Riva sinistra del Tevere - Mappe e conflitti nel territorio metropolitano di Roma” (2004); “Pratiche costituenti - Spazi, reti, appartenenze: le politiche dei movimenti” (2005); “Parole di una nuova politica” (2007); “Networked Politics” (2007). Contact: marco.berlinguer (at) transform.it

I’m Mayo. I was worn in Oliva (Valencia), a small town in front of the Mediterranean sea, 31 years ago. I was part of the firts generation born in democracy after Franco dictatorship. But I start active politically inserted at Praha 2000 generation. I was part of the Moviment de Resistencia Global of Catalonia (MRG) and active at the People Global Action networks, and afterword the European Social Forum from the autonomous spaces perspective.I became an activist research through Glocal, Mobilised Investigacion, Investigació and Euromovements experiences. I had being based on Amsterdam, working with [Eyfa] (an european enviromental organization) and at Barcelona, founding Infoespai social center. Currently I’m most of my time between Rome, Florence and Barcelona, exploring and researching the techno political potenciality. I’m funded by the European University Institute doctoral programme. And putting into practice the reflections coming from it with the creation of a E-library for and on social transformation. E-mail: lilaroja(at)gmx.net

President of Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung. Expert of German and International Left politics.

I’m teaching at the University of Patras in Greece at the Department of Mathematics. My current research is on social networks and social movements. Some of my work on social movements is available at [http://nicomedia.math.upatras.gr/mobilizations/SMIG/] and [http://nicomedia.math.upatras.gr/sm/], while a number of things I’m working on social networks can be found at [http://nicomedia.math.upatras.gr/sn/].

Orsan Senalp (Ankara, 1975) is an anti-capitalist activist/researcher originally from Turkey. In his home country he actively involved in left party politics, labor, trade union and consumer movements, and co-published a national academic/political review. He wrote several articles -in both Turkish and English- over destruction of neoliberal capitalist restructuring. He holds a master degree in political science/international relations. He currently lives in Amsterdam and works for Water Justice Project in the Transnational Istitute-TNI.

Oscar Reyes (London, 1977) is Communications Officer at the Transnational Institute and co-editor (with Hilary Wainwright) of Red Pepper magazine. He has a BA in English Language and Literature from Somerville College, Oxford University and an MA in Ideology and Discourse Analysis from the University of Essex. Before joining TNI he was a lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of East London; a lecturer in European Politics at Goldsmiths College, University of London; and co-producer of a weekly radio show on London’s Resonance FM. Biography on TNI.org.

Vittorio Bertola, from Turin, Italy, born in 1974, copied and pasted his business profile into this wiki, not having time to do more. He holds a degree cum laude in Electronical Engineering obtained at Politecnico di Torino. He deals with the Internet in all its aspects, including technical, business, social and political matters, as an entrepreneur, writer, activist and engineer.

Apparently, he has a business career as an engineer - he works as a freelance, and is a partner in a small high-tech company that he co-founded, after having been the VP for Technology at Vitaminic, one of the most known “dot coms” in Europe, a pioneer in the field of online digital sales of music.

He is often busy as a conference speaker, a renowned blogger and a writer for Italian newsletters and magazines. He has also been dealing for many years now with Internet policies at the national and international level; he was a member of the United Nations’ Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), appointed by the UN Secretary General Mr. Kofi Annan, and is a member of the Internet Governance Consulting Committee of the Italian government, appointed by Minister Luigi Nicolais. He represents the global Internet users in the Board of ICANN, the global policy making entity for Internet domain names. He is a Councillor of Società Internet, the Italian chapter of the Internet Society, and is or was a member in the policy boards of top level domain names such as .it and .mobi. Over the last ten years, he has been the promoter of a number of online initiatives, which made him a well known figure on the Italian Internet.

You can find his website at http://bertola.eu/