Permanent activities
 Currently Executive Director of Fundación Taigüey a Dominican NGO that runs projects
as:
La Cienaga
Community "digital inclusion" technology telecentre called Guanaba.Net
Caribbean
Telecentre Alliance ACT!ivate projet
Community
Eco-Tourism in La Cienaga
La
Cienaga agroprocesing Women's Cooperative
Carisnet: Caribbean ICT stakeholders Networking
support project, and the Caribbean
ICT Virtual Community (CIVIC) moderation.
Bohio:
virtual platform to promote Dominican Haitian civil
society dialogue
Kiskeya
Alternative Destination - on electronic commerce
and sustainable tourism
CACT-Dominicanos (telecentros)
Telecentres Haiti /
HaitianTelecentres (French
/ Creole)
Other Virtual communities / networks moderation-animation:
Owner-Manager
of
a
small Organic Farm EL TIZNAO, south coast of the Dominican Republic
(since July 2003)
Past
institutional
memberships
- 1996- 12/2002: Co founder
and Project Manager for
Kalalú
(Afro Caribbean Performing Arts Research and Training Lab )
- 1997-2000 member & co-founder
of Fundación
Cultural
Bayahonda: (Identity, culture & development in Dominican
Rep.)
Founding member
of the Somos@Telecentros
the "Latin
American and Caribbean Community Telecentres Network" and
project board comittee member (1999-2001)
- Member
and project officer of FUNREDES(1994-1998)
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Team Leader for the project "Strengthening the capacity
of CRFM and its member states for information and knowledge
sharing
on sustainable management
of
fisheries in the Caribbean region"
for the European Comission programme ACP Fish II. Belize,
Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados.
October 2012 - March 2013
- Facilitating participative assessment
and strategic planning of the Caribbean Open Institute. Areas
included are Open data, Open Government Data, web
2.0 research communications and
innovative evaluation methodologies. October 2012 - March 2013
- Phase 3 of the pilot projects using innovative mobile
technologies to enhance governance and citizens participation
in participatory budgeting process in municipalities.
Articulating the intervention of all (local and national)
government, NSAs and technological partners. For the World
Bank. Dominican
Republic. September-Decembre 2012
-
Research/evaluation on the implementation
of 4 rural development/telecentre based ICT projects
and organisation of a regional seminar on "lessons
learned, and up scaling perspectives". For
Fundación Taiguey and European Commission CTA : ACP EU
centre for technical cooperation in agriculture. August-Octobre
2012
-
Participatory planning and capacity building
in 6 vulnerable rural communities to insert
the use of information and communication
tools (ICTs) for agricultural risk
mitigation plans.
for the (FAO) Food and Agriculture Organization. Dominican
Republic. June-Novembre 2012.
-
Review of application and fact cheeking
application of national project preselected for the ITLA
international award to
be awarded by the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation. The prize (one million dollar in
cash) was finally awarded to this projetc, the CTC (centros
tecnologicos
comunitarios)
of the Dominican Republic. April 2012 .
-
- Designed a strategy for decentralized e-delivery of government
services to reduce disparities in access to information
and services among rural communities in Suriname through
the use of ICTs. For the UNDP and Ministry of Transport Communications
and Tourism of Suriname. Novembre-Decembre 2011
- Team Leader and Capacity Building Expert
for the Project "Capacity Building for ACP Intermediary
Organisations using COM4DEV for
Knowledge Sharing and Transfer – ACP/6387". Includes
Train the trainers workshops in Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon,
Congo, Kenya,
Madagascar, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Dominican Republic,
Barbados and Fiji. Implemented by SOGES S.p.a, for DEVCO/European
Commission
and the PRO€INVEST program
of the Centre for the Development of the Enterprise (CDE). June-September
2011
- Coordinating field implementation of pilot project
to enhance citizens engagement with the Participatory Budgeting
processes
in 2 municipalities of the Dominican Republic,
using Mobile
SMS and web based Crowd-mapping/crowd-sourcing
applications, trainers training at the federation of municipalities (FEDOMU),
design and setting up municipal PB information systems.
For the World
Bank ICT4Governance program March-June
2011
- Set-up of the Caribbean
Private Sector Observatory on the COM4DEV community/platform for
Intermediary Organization
(IOs) and Business Support Organizations (BSOs). Knowledge Management,
Information Processes, Add-value Services design,
Networking, Training and mentoring of stakeholders. Hired by
SOGEROM for the PROINVEST program,
funded by the European Commission. Decembre 2010-March 2011
- Creation and launch of the Caribbean
Open Forum that will support information
exchange and knowledge building between Caribbean stakeholders
in the 3 areas of "Open Data", "Outcome
Mapping for Monitoring & Evaluation (OMM)" and "Communicating
research for more effective policy making “impact 2.0”). It
hosts networking and promotes regional collaborative initiatives,
towards building the Caribbean Open Institute. Contracted by
the IDRC-Canada Decembre
2010-March 2011
- Institutional Capacity Assessment (ICA)
of 26 Caribbean Organisations, agencies porposed
for implementation under the EPA Implementation and Social
Development Project Identification Project Fiches of the 10th
EDF Regional Indicative Program for CARIFORUM/CARICOM Hired
by Safege/IDC/Artemis consortium framework contractors for European
Commission (Guyana).
Field mission in Guyana, Barbados, Dominican Rep., Haiti, Belize
and Trinidad and Tobago. September-Decembre 2010
- Field assessment and design of a project to use ICT (including
community radios and cell/mobile based applications) to support
small farmers to better the commercialisation of crops
in the central border between Haiti and Dominican Republic
(Bánica,
Pedro Santana, Cerca-la-Source, Thomassique), hired by GFA
consulting for GTZ Artibonite Binational Project August
2010
- Organisational development
and strategic
planning for the creation of the Association
of Arab Research Networks partner of the EUMEDCONNECT regional
research networking project.
Organizing and facilitating the strategic planning Workshops
(Cairo Jan. 2010, Brussels March 2010, Algiers July 2010, Rome
Nov 10, 2010,
and ASREN
launch
event
Cairo Dec 8th 2010c) and working group coordination to ensure
creation of the new
ASREN
consortium.
For the European Commission EUMEDCONNECT2 project managed
by DANTE -
January–Decebre
2010
- Design and set up of a project to create
the Algerian Community Technology Centers Academy: a training center
for public and private community ICT access centers trainers
facilitators
and managers. For the Ministry of ICT / Algerian Government. March–Decembre
2010
- Strengthening of the capacity of the Nature
Guides Association of the border town of Pedernales, design
of binational (Haiti-Dominican
Rep) agro-eco-tourism products. Hired by PADF
(Pan American Development Foundation) under a IDB/FOMIN project
fund to support grassroots organisation
AGUINAPE. October 2009 - January 2010
- Support the establishment of a community ICT access enter
in Port au Prince, Haiti, capacity building of the local NGO team.
For the International Telecommunications Union ITU. July 2010
- Team leader for the "Boosting ICTs in the Dominican Republic" project,
Support to the local Chamber of Commerce, to build roadmap's
and agendas ICT sector competitiveness, including
public-private partnerships and building national
and Caribbean ICT private
sector organizations. Coordination
of the organization of an
international event. A project supported
by BizClim, a joint
initiative of the ACP
Group of
States and the
European Commission under the 9th EDF. April-June 2009
- Coordinating Taigüey's multimedia content development for
youth at risk project, funded by UNESCOAugust 2009-January 2010
-
For UNDP Egypt: preparation of a project proposal and 2 concepts
notes on e-waste management; e-government services outreach through
mobile
and IT clubs, and a partnership project with spanish NGO Esplai to
set up the national telecentre academy. Field mission in Egypt. December
2008 - January 2009
- Assessment
of the ICT business sector in Rwanda to input
the feasibility of Loans
Guarantee mechanism.
that will be set by the USAID with the local private
banks. Evaluated
sector and company profiles, financial needs, borrowing history
and capacity, market opportunities and constraints. Hired
by Chemonics International / Crimson
Capital consortium for the USAID.
Field mission in Rwanda, June 2008
- Assessing the level
of ICT based decision making in
public and private business organisations, and
delivering workshops and one-on-one meetings informing
decision makers
about state-of-the-art Information Systems as management
decision support tools. In St Kitts and
Nevis, 3 short missions, for the European
Commission funded ITTMP project, February- to May 2008
- Feasibility
study and design of the ICTech
programme to support rural SMEs via Telecentre networks, to
be launched in the Islamic Development Bank Member Countries.
Design
of the
ICTech 2nd
generation telecentre support mechanism. Field
missions in Egypt, Uganda, and Malaysia, October 2007 - July
2008
- Project Coordinator, Caribbean Information Society
Networking support project phase 2
(CarISnet-2), for the Fundación
Taigüey, Caribbean - Mar. 2008-May 2009
- Team leader for the Identification and formulation
of the next Regional Information Society Programme
in the Euro-Mediterranean
region. Priority areas: IS policy and
dialogue, Electronic communication regulations,
R&D
in ICTS, Research and innovation networks,
E-content convergence.
Working for IBM
global services for the European
Commission. Field mission in Egypt,
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Jordan. September-January
2007.
- Design
of the methodology and implementation plan - tender
dossier "E-Business
incubator project" (EU SFA 05 funds) in
St Vincent and the Grenadines. For Ikesol/Integration consulting
company. August 2007.
-
Support to the Madintech/Novatech regional
ICT event (Martinique, June 1007) organization,
in particular in screening Caribbean ICT companies candidates
for CDE support,
facilitating B2B business contacts and guest
speaker at the opening
event ("Building the Caribbean
ICT industry: Elements from and for a regional perspective").
On behalf of CDE. Martinique June
2007
- Field
support for design and start up of the "Employment Capacity Building
Initiative for At-Risk Youth in the Countries of the OECS" (),
to support/develop ICT training
programs in partnership with local organisations.
For the POETA
program of
the Trust of the Americas of the Organizations of American
States OEA/ OAS Field mission in Antigua and Barbuda,
Dominica, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines, St Kitts
and Nevis, St Lucia - April/May 07
- Research Analyst Monograph research:
indicators
of the collective access to
ICTs, public Telecentres review, for the
Dominican Rep National
Statistics Office Jan-October 2007
-
Technical
assistance for feasibility study and drafting of
financial proposal: “Use of Information
and Communication Technology for Improving Education, Diversification
and Competitiveness (ICT4EDC) in St.
Kitts and Nevis” Main expert. European Commission EDF funding
/ IBF consortium / Baa consultores. (May-September 2006).
-
General
Coordination and organisation of the first
Caribbean
Community Telecentres Workshop. Santo
Domingo July 20-22, 2006 (for Fund. Taiguey) and follow task
force
for the design of a regional project (June-August 06)
-
Coordinator to set up of a task force
of ICT intermediary organisations (chambers
of commerce, investment promotion, professional associations) in
the Caribbean region .
(PWC- For Pro€invest/CDE) January 2006
-
Senior Regional Coordinator for the Caribbean Novatech2005
project for
promoting investment in the ICT sector in the Caribbean". Includes
regional sectoral studies, investment opportunities identification and
proposal development, and a regional partnership meeting.
Implemented by a PriceWaterhouseCoopers-France
led consortium, for Pro-invest/CDE and funded by
the European Commission. (March-November
2006)
-
CarISnet Project
Coordinator : Caribbean Information Society Networking
support project. (for
Fund. Taiguey).2004-2007
-
BOHIO Project Coordinator : virtual platform to establish a
dialogue between Dominican and Haitian Civil society organisations
and development agencies. (for Fund.
Taiguey). 2004-2007.
- “Feasibility
Study for the implementation of the CARICOM
/ CARIFORUM Action Plan to support regional integration
(CSME) under
Caribbean Regional Indicative Programme " funded by the
European Commission and awarded to WM Global Partners-ECF
S.p.A. Organisational Development Expert - Nov-04/Feb-05.
- "Lessons
learned" study
of the UNDP/PPS project to support the ecotourism
community project of "Sonido del Yaque - Los Calabazos" in
Jarabacoa province of the Dominican Republic. October-04
- ICT4D / IS Expert Feasibility Study for an ICT Program
for ACP Countries. Trigrammic CC -South Africa) EUROPEAN
COMMISSION Aug-Sept. 04
- "Feasibility
study: the future of the ICT regulatory and institutional
framework and establishment and
development of the Information Society in the Caribbean". ICT
expert and Team Leader - Contracted by Schlumberger Sema/
Eurostrategies for the European Commision. March/June 2004
- Community Outreach Specialist of the PADECO (Japan.)
/ AED (USA) team - Technical assistance to the Government of Jamaica
for the IDB
funded ICT project. , Kingston, Jamaica, July 29th - October,
28th 2003.
- Diagnostic and Design of Community Ecotourism
Development Plan for
the Lakes Area - For the bi-national "Transborder Environmental
Program" (Programme Environnemental Transfrontalier /
Programa
Medioambiental Transfronterizo): - on both sides of the
Dominican-Haitian
border, a project implemented by The Ministry of Agriculture of
Haiti and
the Ministry of Environment of the Dominican Republic, with the
support of the European Union - Caribbean Environmental Program.
(March-August
2003)
- Assessing Dominican Republic public ICT policies social
impact, For
the Latin American ICT Observatory (OLISTICA) project of Funredes- June-
December 2002
- Advisor
and researcher for a regional pilot project on ICT (information
and communication technologies) in non formal and formal education
in rural
areas “Navegantes” coordinated by Raices Magicas (Colombia)
and founded by IDRC ; ( January 2002 Dec 2003) http://yacine.net/pub/raices-magicas
- Coordinating Kalalu's integral intervention in
Los Mercedes (Dominican Rep.), a poor rural community :
including community informatics program for
youth and women, environment preservation and organic
agriculture,
education and literacy program, identity and cultural expression
workshop (facilitator for web workshop). (June 2001 - Dec
ember 2002)
- Project
promotion and participatory
design of the BOHIO Project: Information System and Virtual
Community
for the Dominican and Haitian civil society and development
organizations
cooperation (http://funredes.org/bohio)
with Kalalú, Funredes, and Graph. (2001-2002)
- Training workshop: Information Technologies for
Alternative Communication
and Community Radios, with SAKS, Port au Prince Haiti. February
2001:
- Coordination
and implementation of several projects for Fundación
Cultural Bayahonda and Kalalú-Danza, in the culture,
identity & development area,
including, community work (animation and education),
cultural activities, research programs, events organization,
etc. (1996-2001), Facilitator of community workshops using
the Web and
ICTs
for cultural identity and social creativity as for Batey
6 and Los
Mercedes
- Presentation
of research findings at the Algerian
Economic Reform
and State Participation "ICTs for privatization promotion and
foreign
investment attraction". See
summary here (January 2001):
- Launching
and moderation
of "SALSA" multilingual forum
on
cultural issues in the Caribbean . Moderator Since May
2000:
- As an external consultant for the Networks and Development
Foundation
(FUNREDES) work on several
projects
as "Social Impact of Information Technologies in Latin America –(Mistica)"
"Caribbean Integration Through Information Technologies (Caritic)",
"Caribbean Culture Network (SALSA)";
December 1998, April and December 1999 - February 2000 - May 2000
- In Haiti: Consultant for the Haitian Research and Development
Network (May 1998-
Feb.
1999)
- End
user training & support organization;
- content development and network animation;
- local staff training;
- Information Technologies applications for development
projects with
NGOs.
- special projects TIC application to developmental tasks
- Consultant for KLZ consulting firm (Algeria/Spain) - Sept.
1997- February
1998
- Research: The State of the Art in Finance and
Investment applications
on the Internet
- Project design: Foreign Investment attraction and
privatization
promotion
through the Internet (confidential documents)
See Executive Summary
here
- Research coordinator: Creativity in Santo Domingo
Carnival (for Kalalú-Danza)
Feb. / March 1998:
- Executive production staff for the Bayahonda
Cultural Foundation of the 1st Festival for the Island (Dominican
Rep / Haiti
25-29
March 1998)
and 5th "Artistas por el Gaga"
for
activities prior to this date (and they're few!)
please ask for my full CV
Events and conferences
(not frequently updated)
- November 26-28, 2008 in Montevideo, Uruguay .Participant at the
workshop IDRC CEA/ICA All-Partners' Meeting, Presented CarISnet
org 2.0 video:
- November 24th 2008Barbados Speaker at the 1st CARIFORUM/EU Business
Forum, (presented
building
the Caribbean ICT sector)
- November 14th 2008, Santo domingo,
Organized the "Dialogue and
collaboration venues for construction of the Caribbean Information
Society " at UNIBE
university
and
presented "CIVIC
and org 2.0 before the web 2.0"
- Organizer of the CIVIC
2.0 event, CarISneT Consortium, Juan Dolio Dominican
Republic, November 2008 12-15
- Dakar Senegal: September 26-30 2008, participant in the Gender
and Agriculture/Rural Development in the Information Society
(GenARDIS) workshop, Organized by APC women network, IDRC and CTA.
- Barcelona,
Spain, 22-24 september, participant in the global telecentres
academy workshop, organized by by Foundation Esplai.
- Port au Prince Haiti, 29-30 May
2008, ICT for regional integration and development : 1er Sommet
des APPLICATIONS
des NTIC au service
du développement de la région Caribéenne,
organized by the State University of Haiti (Faculté des
Sciences de l’UEH)
- Lima, Peru, March 2008, workshop for the telecentres operators
helpdesk, organized by CEPES.
- Kinsgton, Jamaica, March 2008, speaker at the Jamaica Community
Multimedia Centre Conference organized by MEMT/UNESCO/ICT4D Jamaica
- Kuala Lumpur, Maysia, Dec 2007, particpant in the Global Knowledge
3 evant and the Telcentre Leaders Forum.
- Martinique
June 2007 Madintech/Novatech
regional ICT event guest
speaker at the opening event ("Building the Caribbean
ICT industry: Elements from and for a regional perspective").
On behalf of CDE.
(missing
few here)
- July 20-22, 2006 General Coordination and organisation
of the first Caribbean
Community Telecentres Workshop. Boca Chica, Rep Dominicana.
- 21 June 2006 Workshop facilitator on “governance
and ICT for municipal and local governements ” Eleventh
Inter-American Conference
of Mayors and Local Authorities", , for the Inter
American Foundation. Introductory
presentation (in spanish). Miami, USA.
- April 21st-23rd, 2006 Participant Conference
on Access to Knowledge, on ,
at Yale Law School. Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Yale,
USA.
- 2 y 3 de febrero 2006. Participant Taller
de validacion de --dominicana e la Comisión
Nacional para la Sociedad de la Información para
que la República Dominicana. Santo Domingo. Rep
Dominicana.
- 19-21 de febrero de 2006. Participant Taller
Telecentros para la "metodologia ACTA del BID para
sostenibilidad de Telecentros" Puerto Plata. Rep
Dominicana.
- May
8-10 2003.Main facilitator Ecotourismo
en las zona de los lagos / ecotourisme dans
la zone des lacs. Principal facilitator - Programme Environnemental
Transfrontalier / Programa Medioambiental Transfronterizo.
Foret des Pins, Haiti.
- 4
de Abril 2006 Presentación: del proyecto
BOHIO en la Feria Binacional
de
Dajabon., Rep dominicana
-
18 de abril 2006 co-organizador, encuentro
de organizaciones de la sociedad civil interesadas en
la formación
de una red binacional dominico-haitiana de la sociedad
civil. Casa San Pablo, Santo Domingo. Rep Dominicana.
- 5-7 December 05. Participant and speaker..CARDICIS.
Presented the
Mapping
regional ICT project in the Caribbean. Juan Dolio Domincan
Republic.
- 29-30 Nov 2005. Participant. Regional ICT4D consultation Consulta
Regional de Expertos en TIC y Desarrollo del Programa
Pan Américas del CIID (IDRC/PAN/ICA). Montevideo,
Uruguay.
-
25-27 October 2005. Senior Regional
Coordinator. Novatech2005 Investment
conference "promoting investment in the ICT sector in the Caribbean". Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic
- July-Septembre 2005. Main Facilitator.
One day workshops with ICT companies and entreprises in preparation
of Novatech2005.
in:
- Surinam (with KKF the local Chamber of Commerce)
- Guyana (with the investement promotion agency Go-Invest)
- Domincan Republic (with 4 ministries and many intermediary
organisations)
- Haiti (with the Haitian ICT entreprise Association
AHTIC)
- Dec 04
- Main Facilitator first bonational BOHIO meeting
between Dominican and Haitian Civil society organisations and development agencies.
(for Fund. Taiguey) Barahona
(missing
few here)
- June 2004 - Main Facilitator 2
day "logframe" or logical framework in Guyana for
the Feasibility
study: the future of the ICT regulatory and institutional framework
and establishment and development of the Information Society
in the Caribbean". ICT expert and Team Leader -
for the European
Commision. rproject
(missing some here)
- April 1-2, 2003 Participant Actores
sociales en el Caribe y el derecho a la comunicación
en la Sociedad de la Información. WACC
Caribbean workshop. Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
- March 5-7 2003:Participant Turismo rural y ecoturismo como complemento
de Sol y
Playa . . Secretaría
de Turismo de Rep Dominicana. Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic.
- January
8, 2003 "Socinfodo" Speaker Reunión
de información/reflexión para la sociedad
civil CMSI/WSIS RD. Santo Domingo Dominican Republic,
- 9-11 December. Speaker. 2002 Symposium
international « les
technologies de l’information
et de la communication et la société de l’information:
Enjeux et perspectives ». Alger Algeria. Presented 10
enseignements sur les Télécentres en Amérique
Latine
- October 28-30, 2002 General coordinator First ICT
Caribbean roundtable - an ICA/ITU consultation in Barbados
- September 14-18 2002. Participant Reunión
de Consulta Regional consulta
regional con vistas a la Cumbre Mundial sobre la Sociedad de la
Información
(Ginebra, diciembre 2003) , bajo el título: “Foro
Internacional: América Latina y el Caribe en la Sociedad
de la Información”.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- March 17-24 2002 :Participant "Apropiación
de tecnologías
de la información y comunicación en América
Latina" Encuentro de Experiencias y Taller Internacional, Lima
& Cajamarca, Peru. Oganized by ITDG
Peru.
- April 2002 Co-organization
and speaker Bohio
Project
information meetings in Santo Domingo and Port au Prince.
- January / Enero, Workshop instructor. 27-30
2002: Taller del proyecto "Pensar el
uso
de la Internet en la educaicación formal y no formal en America
LAtina y el Caribe" - Ocaña, Colombia.
- November 26-29, 2001: Participant. Sustainable
Tourism Stewardship Council
workshop in Belize city. Belize.
- 28
de Mayo al 02 de Junio 2001: Participant. IV
Taller sobre Tecnologia
de Redes Internet para America Latina y el Caribe Taller
5 Internet y Sociedad, Merida, Venezuela.
- February 2001: Main Instructor Workshop:
Information Technologies, Alternative
Comunications, Community Radios and Rural Development,
with SAKS, Port au Prince Haiti.
- November 17-19, 2000 Participant Ecotourism & Sustainable
Tourism Certification
Workshop, , sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies,
with the
support of the Ford Foundation, Mohonk Mountain Center, New
York USA
- August 25 - 27, 2000 Participant Caribbean
and Western Atlantic Association
of Marine & Aquatic Educators Workshop & Conference,
Cayman Brac
Island.
- March
16-18, 2000 Latin American Studies Association conference,
LASA 2000 in Miami USA . Panel Tourism, Communities
And Environments In Latin America And The
Caribbean (note: my paper was accepted
but could not attend due to lack of financial support)
- November 30th December 3rd 1999: Participant Workshop"Constructing a
National
Agenda for Ecotourism in Dominican Republic" with C.A.D.
(Consorcio
Ambiental Dominicano) and Rare - Center
for Tropical Conservation - Jarabacoa Dominican
Republic.
- Sept. 31 -October 1 1999. Participant Reunion
Latinoamericana y Caribeña,
Red de Telecentros, Far Hills, Quebec
- June
27 1999: Workshop with community environmental associations
on ecotourism and the Kiskeya Alternativa
project, Sabana de la Mar, Dominican
Republic
- July 1998:Participant WALC 98 Internet
summit, Latin American
and Caribbean Networks -
Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Note: other workshops and traning
that I facilitated prior
to
this date are not listed here |
