Joan Batlle-Montserrat

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Joan Batlle-Montserrat holds a PhD in Information Sciences (Universitat de Barcelona) and a diplome on ICT Audit (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya). Since 1984, he has worked in many areas in the City Council of Barcelona, as head of Cooperation and International Innovation and as head of European Projects at the Municipal Informatics Institute. He participated in the creation of the website bcn.cat in 1995 and in the development of a Content Management System in 2002. His specialisation areas are authentication, authorisation and role management, digital certification and e-Democracy. He has worked for the implementation of Open Source Solutions, in the coordination of the HOPS Project on semantic websites, natural language processing and voice technology. He is currently involved in projects related to Smart Cities and advanced Internet services, and he is an expert on the Internet of Things at the European Commission.