Leda Guidi

Municipality of Bologna
com@comune.bologna.it
Communication Services and Relationships with Citizens
Tel.: +39-51-203210 260972, Fax ... 223142

Short Biography

- Until 1988 Press Office and Cabinett of President of Bologna Province. From 1988 until 1994 the same for the Mayor of Bologna. From then till now vice-responsible of Communication Services and Relations with Citizens. Co-manager in designing and implementing an Integrated System for Metropolitan Communication (60 Municipalities of the Bologna territory).
- Consulting for the realisation of interactive systems for citizens and instructor in several training courses on public communication and networks.
- Member of the "Internet Strategic Group".
- Several speeches at international conferences on tele-democracy, the exploitation of networks and Information Society.
Project Manager of the Civic Network Project Iperbole/Internet; responsible of the Iperbole service. Consulting and training activities for the realisation of civic networks.
- Several published papers on "civic networks" as tools for participation, communication and development of the territory.
- Team leader for the Municipality of Bologna as partner in public/private consortia in the following European Projects: CityCard (Esprit 8123), Web4Groups (Telematics 2568), Million (Esprit 20772).
- Coordinator and responsible in Bologna of the work group established by Public Administrations for the National Project of the Ministero della Funzione Pubblica "Multi-functional access points to Public Administration", for the exploitation of communication and networks.
- Member of the Regional delegation of Public Communication Association and of the work group for the organisation of the annual "International Conference on Public Communication and Services to Citizens".

Abstract of her talk "Bologna Civic Network".