The website http://www.euskalhiria.org was a EGovernance Think Tank platform that was fed by the Basque City-Region 2012 Congress' dynamics. Its property rights belongs to www.cityregions.org postodoctoral research project supported by Ikerbasque and the Oxford Programme of the Future of Cities....
On 7th November 2013, I gave a conference about technology, politics and democracy. The title of the conference was "Do Social Networks provoke Civilian Transformation?" I pointed out the case of Iceland as the one that I had recently been collecting data about....
Between March and November 2012, I was the Scientific Director organizing the Basque City-Region 2012 Congress in collaboration with the Spatial Planning of the Basque Government. All the content was stored in two platforms: one in Basque & Spanish and the other one in English....
On 9th May, 2012, I gave a conference at the Digital Citizenship Congress in my hometown St. Sebastian. The title of the paper was: Technology, Social Capital & Territory....
From August the 18th to the 20th in 2011, I attended a highly interesting conference that took place at Prags Boulevard 43 in Copenhagen. The conference addressed issues such as: City Development & Empty Buildings. It gave me a good chance to carry out field...
As part of the project of Networked Gipuzkoa about "Social Capital and Competitiveness: New Perspectives", I co-authored the summary book representing the University of Mondragon in coordination with the Orkestra - University of Deusto and the University of Oxford. The title of the book is:...
It was Robert Putnam, the key author observing the social phenomenon that meant the foundation of the concept, Social Capital. His interesting experiment observing the bowling rooms, provided us an interesting perspective from which to compare, connect, or even benchmark the social diverse context and...
Being promoted from the Basque Government's Linguistic Policy Vice-Ministry, the direction that I coordinated for at least one and a half years fostered one research project that was titled: Social Networks and Basque 2.0 in the European Scope. The project aimed to identify the profile...
This article is a forward looking view in the field of the Basque language enhancement. More particularly, this is the Strategic Framework called Basque 2.0 that I outlined and tried to apply in my two-years policy making and advising contribution as the Director of the...
