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Carlos Miranda Levy

Headline: Entrepreneur
Website: http://www.socinfo.com
Skills: Engineering, English, French, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Software Engineering, Spanish, Web Development
Location: Consulting across the Caribbean
Groups: Social e-challenge Competition 2008
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup
Tags: conceptual maps, e-learning, human development, ict4dev, open content, open media., social entrepreneurship, social networks, virtual communities

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Ciudades Virtuales Latinas -CIVILA.com-
Position: Founder
Description: Founder of Ciudades Virtuales Latinas -CIVILA.com-, a network of Latin American virtual communities and digital cities where over 3 million people participate each month and where active discussions on economic and human development are held.

Employer: Educar.org
Position: Founder
Description: Founder of Educar.org, educational portal and collaborative learning community that engages 1.3 million teachers, students and regular people every month. Has developed models for the formulation and implementation of ICT strategies in education from both a Human Development and a pedagogic perspective. Has worked with hundreds of educators and dozens of educational institutions in several Caribbean and Latin American countries.

Employer: BibliotecasVirtuales.com
Position: Founder
Description: Founder of BibliotecasVirtuales.com, a digital library and community of writers and readers that publishes original texts in three languages and provides access to public domain or authorized texts to 1 million people every month. Also founder of NavidadLatina.com, a collaborative content initiative about Christmas traditions in Latin America and around the world, visited by 3 million people during the month of December.

Employer: AmericaSomosTodos.com
Position: Founder
Description: Founder of AmericaSomosTodos.com, a continental initiative to empower local communities across the continent through on-site workshops and visits and a supporting digital network of collaborators and tools.

Employer: International organizations, government institutions and local community environments
Position: Developer of Information Society strategies and assessments
Description: Developer of Information Society strategies and assessments for international organizations, government institutions and local community environments. Has formulated several conceptual models on ICT and Human Development and Social Entrepreneurship as well as a methodology for the collaborative and participative formulation of ICT Strategies that generate “Social Impact through Technology” (see Socinfo.com).

Employer: Center for Internet Studies, University of Washington
Position: Lead Researcher
Time period: January 2007 - December 2008
Description: Public Access ICT Landscape Study: Dominican Republic

Employer: Instituto Dominicano de Telecomunicaciones - INDOTEL
Position: eDominicana: National Strategy for the Information Society, ICT Consultant Team
Time period: January 2003 - December 2004

Employer: Instituto Tecnológico de Las Américas, Dominican Republic
Position: Information Technologies Advisor
Time period: January 2003 - December 2004

Employer: Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technologies. Dominican Republic
Position: Information Technologies Advisor
Time period: January 2002 - December 2004

Employer: Government Center of Information, Secretary of Presidency. Dominican Republic
Position: Information Technologies Advisor
Time period: January 2001 - December 2003

Employer: Instituto Tecnológico de las Américas. Dominican Republic
Position: Director, Information Technologies Consulting Services
Time period: January 2001 - December 2002

Employer: Sub Secretary of Information Systems, Secretary Technical of the Presidency. Dominican Republic
Position: Information Technologies Advisor
Time period: January 2000 - December 2001

Employer: Dominican Republic
Position: Internet Advisor to the Presidency
Time period: January 2000 - December 2001

Employer: Caribbean Knowledge Learning Network (CKLN)
Position: Strategic Planning Consultant for Improved TEI and Ministry of Education Strategic Planning Capacity
Time period: December 2008

Employer: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean (ECLAC)
Position: Information Society Development Consultant
Time period: December 2006

Employer: Ministry of Education, Dominican Republic
Position: Information Technologies Consultant
Time period: December 2003

INFORMATION

Awards: Selected by CNN as one of the “20 most Influential Latin Americans on the Internet” (2000). Awarded the Google Developing World Scholarship and chosen as a fellow at Stanford University sponsored by the Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program (2004). Nominated twice to the Content and Innovation Award of the World Summit on Information Society. His initiatives have been featured by the international media, from Discovery Channel to CNN and newspapers in America and Europe.

Carlos' Startups (2)

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  • DGL

    DGL creates a online and physical community for the spanish speaking gamers.

  • Mediabyu

    all content on all media, by and for everyone

Carlos' Contacts (4)

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  • Steve Teffenhardt

    American, 40. CEO Pure Moxie, LLC, biz incubator born in 2002. Also PM Jets, LLC Business Aircraft Charter Broker. Goals #1 Create the best possible team, #2 Motivate, #3 Delegate. Leader and Motivator, and a Jet Pilot in a previous lifestyle...

  • Avish Dahiya

    Global Software & New Media Entreprenuer President, DNA Global Network Inc. (Global Sourcing, Program Management, Management Consulting & Research)

  • David Hoffmann

    CEO and Owner of Davidsbeenhere.com, LLC (www.davidsbeenhere.com)