Through ICTs I wish to improve information processes applied to social services such as health and education.
Grandma's living room.
Primary Health Services reach every single person in the world.
Born in Spain in 1983, she received her post-graduate in Msc Telecommunication Networks for Developing Countries in 2010 from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and her degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 2008 from Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. In 2004 she moved to Paderborn University in Germany, to continue her studies and start a research in large scale wireless and ad-hoc communication networks, where she contributed to R&D projects belonging Heinz Nixdorf Institute. Since 2005, she has volunteered at various NGO's for Development such as Engineers without Borders Spain and EHAS Foundation, contributing to project design and development as well as in capacity building and users involvement with technology. Latest contributions consist of multimedia and film productions used in educational programs and documentary of projects execution. In 2006 she got involved with UNV-UNITeS Programme for fighting the Digital Divide under the MDGs, and spent six months in a youth initiative for capacity building in computer and internet access in rural areas of Cape Verde. In 2007 and 2008 she worked for Ericsson Network & Services focusing in cellular network deployment and optimization, and also for Intecdom in domotic and voice-based telematic and multimedia services. Since 2008 she is both project engineer and external consultant at EHAS Foundation. Her current interests are focused in sustainability, technology acceptance, capacity building and users empowerment in ICTD projects, while she is now director of EHAS Sustainability and maintenance project at the Amazonic region of Napo in Peru and she recently presented her Master's thesis also in this area.
