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Came
to Britain and obtained a M.Phil in Electronic Engineering, University
of Bradford. He shifted from engineering to social studies of technology
and completed a doctorate at the Science Studies Unit, The University
of Edinburgh. His research interests centre on theories of innovation
and technology management and strategy, particularly on his original
sociotechnical constituencies approach, now widely applied to understand
and inform the strategic development of a variety of information
and communication technologies. A particular interest has been to
transform this academic theorisation into instruments of practical
application for government and company technology strategies. These
include "evolving business plans," "customised user
research," and "trend-mapping." Alfonso has worked
in numerous occasions as consultant, evaluator, reviewer and rapporteur
for directorates DGIII, DGXII, DGXIII of the European Community.
He has published numerous books, papers and reports.
Employment
1999 - present Professor of Technology Strategy Director of TechMaPP
1997 - 1999 Reader in Innovation and Management of Technology
1994 - 1997 Senior Research Fellow
Recent Research and Consultancy Projects
- CEC-DGINFSOC,
Public Administrations and e-Commerce in Europe - PACE
- UK
Design Council, Increasing Information Intensity: Towards Intelligent
Products
- CEC
DGXIII, European Telematics Horizontal Observatory Service - ETHOS
- CEC
DGXIII/DGXVI, Building an Internet-based Tourism Constituency
for SMEs in the Less Favoured Regions of Europe (InTouriSME)
- CEC
DGIII, Building a Knowledge-sharing E-business Cluster in West
Lothian, Scotland (BuKS)
- SHEFC/Scottish
Office, Real-time Evaluation of Connect Scotland
- CEC
ALFA, Europe and Latin America National Innovation Systems
- Telecities/Global
Bangemann Challenge - Strategy Framework for Global Cities Dialogue
- Evaluation
of Multimedia Systems Domain of CEC Framework Programme IV
- Strategic
inputs to CEC programmes in microprocessors, multimedia systems,
information society, online government, electronic commerce and
new organisational practices
- Telematics
strategy of the City of Rome
Current
and Recent Appointments
- Member
of the Strategy Group of Edinburgh Telematix Partnership
- Member
of the Wired West Lothian strategy and partner selection panel
- Member
the European Group of Scottish Enterprise
- Served
as chairman of the Scottish Enterprise's Resources Group of the
Creative Content Industries Cluster
- Served
as member of the international juries for competitions on Internet,
G8 Global Inventory Projects (GIP), and the Stockholm Bangemann
Challenge
- Expert
consultant to CEC DGXIII in various areas of information society
- Presented
European position on Electronic Commerce at the EU/U.S.A. inaugural
meetings for the Science and Technology Agreement, Washington
- Member
of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Member
of the Joint Political Platform of the Global Bangemann Challenge
and Telecities chaired by Commissioner M. Bangemann.
- Member
of the finalist international jury of the US Global Information
Infrastructure (GII) contest
- Member
of the international jury of the ICT Stories contest, IICD and
InfoDev, World Bank
- Chairman
of the international jury of the Stockholm Challenge Award and
former Chairman of the jury the Global Bangemann Challenge, the
world-wide international contest of information society projects.
- Chairman
of the international jury of the Global Junior Challenge, the
global contest of new technology and education projects.
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