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Sobre Mí

Soy Ismael Peña-López.

Soy Director general de Participación Ciudadana en la Generalitat de Catalunya.
Anteriormente, y durante cerca de 13 años, fui profesor de los Estudios de Derecho y de Ciencia Política de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
He sido también investigador senior en Open Evidence y director fellow de Innovación Abierta de la Fundació Jaume Bofill.

Mis principales ámbitos de trabajo son el impacto de las TIC en la sociedad (e-Readiness, brecha digital), especialmente en el desarrollo (e-Inclusión, ICT4D) y las instituciones educativas (e-Learning, competencia digital) y políticas (e-participación, e-democracia).

Noticias

Book Chapter. Fostering non-formal and informal democratic participation: From mass democracy to democracy networks

Fomento de la participación democrática no formal e informal. De la democracia de masas a las redes de la democracia

In September 2018 I attended the CAMPUS LAAAB. Iberoamerican conference of citizen innovation, where I presented a first draft of the strategy of citizen participation of the newly created directorate general of the Catalan government. ...

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Book Chapter. Translearning: unfolding educational institutions to scaffold lifelong networked learning

Higher Education in the Digital Age. Moving Academia Online

A couple of years ago I attended a workshop at the European University Institute, Shaking the brick and mortar: moving higher education online, where I presented Opening up the gates: scaffolding lifelong learning.

The reflections on that workshop have now been published as a book: Higher Education in the Digital Age. Moving Academia Online, edited by Annika Zorn, Jeff ...

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ICT4D Blog

11/02/2019

Behavioral psychology to improve decision making

Notes from the workshop Behavioural psychology to improve decision making, organized by Department of Foreign Affairs, Institutional Relationships and Transparency of the Catalan Government and held in Barcelona, Spain, on 11 February 2019.

We are human beings and, as so, we are social.

How do we make decisions?

Automatic thinking
Social thinking
Mental models

What do decision makers do:

Contextual definition of problems.
Map behaviours.
Solution, evidence, iteration.

Main problems in decision-making:

Bias of confirmation: when the individual seeks or interprets new evidence as confirmation of their beliefs or theories already conceived.
Bias of confidence: when subjective confidence of someone over their own judgement is higher thant the objective ...
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15/01/2019 Citizen participation on new digital platforms

16/11/2018 eDemocracy: Digital Rights and Responsibilities (II). Experts and activists

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Sociedad Red Blog

03/09/2018

Per què he acceptat entrar al Govern de la Generalitat de Catalunya

El dia 19 de juny de 2018 em van nomenar director general de participació ciutadana de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

75 dies després — no tots hàbils per treballar, però sí per pensar — em sento en la necessitat de compartir perquè vaig acceptar entrar al Govern de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

Com va anar la cosa

El dia 1 de juny per la tarda em va trucar la cap de gabinet del conseller Ernest Maragall per comentar-me que el conseller volia parlar amb mi i que si em podia trucar. Era el dia abans del seu nomenament com a conseller i ...

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19/06/2018 Nomenat Director general de Participació Ciutadana

19/06/2018 Nombrado Director general de Participación Ciudadana

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