Sitio Web Personal de Roxana Bassi

(2006) GeSCI (Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative) ICT Specialist on several country projects.

(2005) CIO (Chief Information Officer) of Educ.ar, Sociedad de Estado. This is an organzation that belongs to the Ministerio de Educación, Ciencia y TEcnología and is in charge of the Information Society programs.

(2005) ICT consultant. During this period I performed a research on the subject of the Social impact of the transfer of used computers from developed countries to developing countries in Latin America, for SUR Corporacion de Estudios Sociales (santiago, Chile) with the support of IDRC (www.idrc.ca, Canada).
I have also been the technical translator and localization manager in Spanish of the content of 11 web sites of VERITAS Corporation/Symantec (USA), working with Mazalán Comunicaciones.
I also worked as secretary of LINKS. LINKS is the first Argentine Civil Association specialized in the research and development of Information Society.
I have also finished working on my chapter "El desafío de la automatización de procedimientos manuales de la administración pública" of the book "TIC y desarrollo local: Municipios e Internet", edited by Links.

(2004) Deputy ICT CIO of ANBP (Afghanistan´s New Beginnings Program), part of UNAMA/UNDP. In charge of technological infrastructure and support of the second largest project in the country, ANBP (Afghanistan's New beginnings Program). Infrastructure deployment, capacity building of national staff, software development, and user support for UN personnel and offices throughout the country. Duty performed in a post war, limited resources and high risk environment.

(2002-2004) Technology consultant. Worked on a variety of technology projects about social application of ICTs.
- Founder and secretary of LINKS (NGO). LINKS is the first Argentine Civil Association specialized in the research and development of Information Society. LINKS members are experienced researchers and practitioners, who have been working for years on the social aspects of Information Society and on the social uses of ICT
- Presented a project and were selected for @lis founding on ICT. Worked in the first stages of the i-jumelages projects along with VECAM (France), under the supervision of the European Commission in the @lis founding project. (France)
- Developed several intranet systems to service communication needs of corporations and workgroups. Developed a series of guidelines about designing optimal electronic workspaces.
-Localization and project management of the Spanish versions of the Latin American web sites of VERITAS Software with Mazalán Comunicaciones.
- As a consultant, worked on a research project "Computerization of rural cooperatives in Latin America" for FAO (UN) Rome, under the supervision of Mr. John Rouse. This research produced the book "Guidelines on Computerization of Agricultural Cooperatives", published by FAO (electronic version).
- Supervision of electronic debate forums for IDRC (Canada) on the subject of Wi-Fi for development.

(2001-2002) Executive Coordinator of a National Program and Technical Advisor (Information Society Program of Argentina,government IT sector). Advisor to the Communications Secretary of the national government in technical and technology related strategic issues. In charge of the executive administration of the National Program to grant access to Technology to limit the impact of the digital divide, with over 3,000 public access telecenters installed in small communities all over the country. Called PSI (Information Society Program), this program was designed in collaboration with ITU. Duties included: design of strategic plans for the deployment of technology programs in the country, selection of technology, personnel and team coordinator, budget and financial management, project management, administrative liaison with ITU. Advisor in the design of national laws like the anti-span legislatiom.

(2000-2001) Senior International Developer, Recol Networks SA (private sector, international experience in Mexico and Spain, IT) Recol is a Spanish ISP specialized in content for professional communities. As part of their process to go public, I was in charge of the technical and procedural deployment of the Spanish company in Mexico and Argentina. My tasks included: Team selection, design of procedure manuals, training, policy and strategic planning, local agreements with partners and providers, and other tasks related to the Business development of the company in the two new countries.

(1996-2000) Technical Editor - Internet World Magazine Latin America (private sector, editorial, part time) Technical Editor of monthly Magazine. Duties: Article selection and design, translation supervision and editing, general coordination of the editorial team.

(1994-1997) Internet Project Manager for the Education Services of Hewlett Packard Argentina. Designed the Internet curricula, designed the courses, choose the most appropriate software tools for the clients, set up the training platform, and designed the evaluation test, written training manuals. Over 6500 individuals trained.

(1993-2000) Gaiasur Consultora, consulting firm (private sector, self employed, IT). Own Consulting Firm in Buenos Aires. Managed over 150 Internet projects. Clients included: Banco de Boston (bank), Grafa (industry), IRSA (realty investor), Cresud (agriculture), Motorola (telecommunications), Clorox (chemicals), Banco Mayo (bank), Telecom (telecommunications), Telintar (telecommunications), Intramed de Roemmers (pharmaceutical), Siemens (hardwrae), Museo del Abasto (museum), Unifón (telecommunications), CTI(telecommunications), Xerox, Impsat (telecommunications), Festo, Telecom Soluciones (telecommunications), Advance (telecommunications), E-marketing, Diveo (telecommunications), Telelatina (telecommunications), Terra (telecommunications), Telefónica (telecommunications), Secretaría PYMe (government), Citibank (bank). Consultancy related to usability and interfaces, training, development of users manuals, procedure design, help desk, intranets, data structures, technology selection, electronic document management.

(1989-1992)Technical Consultant : system development and deployment of local area networks (lantastic & novell netware) for agricultural firms. Programming of administrative systems (agricultural, accounting, management) and distributed system connected by modems. Course design and Training of users