Gianluigi Cogo

As a civil servant for the Regional Government of Veneto (Italy), he has been facilitating the processes that take advantage of new technologies and disseminating digital culture in the Public Administration.

On the web since the early 90s, he set up the first civic network "Venice On-Line", based in Venice. In the late '90s he founded, together with other associates, the first network of municipalities in the Province of Venice "East Pole/hub", and finally one of the first Italian Social Network: "Networkingitalia.it”. In the Veneto Region, where he has been working on eGovernment in the Community Network project, he created the first intranet network based on workspaces and dynamic 2.0.

He developed, together with partners from different Italian regions, Ritef, the "network of regions for e-learning" and he has been one of the protagonists of the Cisco Networking Academy in Italy since the early 2000. He currently works as consultant for universities, government ministries and agencies to disseminate the dynamics and values of collaboration and participation. "

He is the president of Assint (association for the development of innovation and new technologies), founder / facilitator of the network of innovators in Public Administration, director of the Scientific Board of Egov magazine and founder of the Italian Association for Opengovernment. He is Adjunct Professor at University of Venice and very active with his blogs and he collaborates with various institutions to master courses.

He is the author of the book "Digital Citizenship", "The websites of Public Administrations" , "Social Network in Public Bodies" and "Business Networking".