-Playing Golf with Tom Hogan (Vignette CEO)
-Taking a rest after a hard IT WorkShop in Dublin (2003)
-My sweet home in Barcelona

C.V.
Mr. Joan Batlle is the Head of Innovation and eGovernment International Cooperation Department at the CIO office of the Barcelona City Council.

Mr. Batlle is MSc on Physical Sciences from Barcelona University. Postgraduate Diploma in ICT Auditory from Polytechnic University of Catalonia and Master Diploma in Information Technology Management from Ramon Llull University (Barcelona).

Mr. Batlle has been at the Barcelona City Council since 1987. He has been the Head of International Projects Department of the Municipal Institute of Information Technology. He has been for 5 years the Technology Co-ordination of Internet services since 1997 as well as Head of European Projects since 2001. He has worked in several technological areas leading in 1991 the adoption of Client/Server Technology now supporting most important internal processes in municipality offices, the creation of the city's web site www.bcn.es in 1995 and the deployment of a Content Management System in 2002 and worked for the Open Source Solution to be adopted by the Municipality. Regarding European Projects he has worked in authentication, authorisation and role Management, digital certification, e-Democracy, and lately in Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing and voice Technology. As a representative of IMI he is attending Eurocities and Major Cities of Europe meetings and conferences as well as participating in different dissemination events.

Involved in all technological areas of ICT since 1984, he has a broad understanding of Government specific problems and ICT challenges for improvements applying innovative Technology in government processes.

Latest International Projects
e-Government Benchlearning
Innovative Citites for the next Generation (ICING)
Charter of Rights of Citizens in the Knowledge Society
Enabling an Intelligent Natural Language Based HUB for the Deployment of Advanced Semantically Enriched Multi-channel MAss-scale Online Public Services (HOPS)
Ontology-enabled e-Gov Service Configuration (ONTOGOV)
Privilege and Role Management Infrastructure Standards Validation (PERMIS)
European Cities platform for on-line transaction services (EURO-CITI) (Paper from Barcelona's Mayor)

Papers & Presentations
Los fondos europeos y las TIC como agentes de innovación en las AAPP. Ayuntamientos de Barcelona y Gijón.(SOCINFO #43 Pg.44-46 - Dic. 2007)[Sp]
Estudi sobre e-Govern a les ciutats. (IDP UOC - 2007)[Ct]
Los Proyectos Europeos contribuyen al desarrollo del sector TIC (Novática Nş185 - 2007 Pags. 61-63)[Sp]
e-Government City Models: cases from European cities (Barcelona City Council & EUROCITIES - 2007)[En]
Key success factors for the adoption of eServices (EUROCITIES - 2007)[En]
Configuring e-Government Services Using Ontologies (Upgrade 2005)[En]
The HOPS Project (Gestion Inteligente de Contenidos. La web semantica - 2005)[Sp]
The role of cities in European Projects (11è Curs sobre la Unió Europea - 2005)[Ct]
ICT Sector development through European Projects (La Farga 2005)[Ct]
New roles for librarians (Bid - 2001)[Ct]

Networks
ePractice
Eurocities
Major Cities of Europe
Spanish IT Professional Association (ATI)
Catalan Chapter of Internet Society (ISOC-Cat)

Other interests
- I'm a Palm addict user. After two Handspring advetures now I'm a T/X proud owner.
- I'm also a Linux user. Currently using Mandriva 2007
- I like to spend my freetime shotting a ball with a club trying to putt the ball into a hole. It's similar to Golf but with more strokes :), and playing Jazz with flute

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