Simona Levi

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Simona Levi is a theatre director, playwright and technopolitical strategist. In 2017, the magazine Rolling Stone singled her out as one of the 25 people shaping the future. Since 2018, she has been responsible for developing and designing the course in Technopolitics and Rights in the Digital Age, first at Pompeu Fabra University and later at the University of Barcelona. She is the originator of Xnet – Institute for Democratic Digitalisation and 15MpaRrato, which has achieved convictions of 65 politicians and bankers for using “black cards”, including the former Spanish Minister of Economy and former President of the International Monetary Fund, Rodrigo Rato. She has written a number of books, including #FakeYou: monopolis de la manipulació informativa i retallades de la llibertat d’expressió (#FakeYou: information manipulation monopolies and curtailments of the freedom of expression) and Votar y cobrar. La impunidad como forma de gobierno (with Sergio Salgado) (Vote and collect. Impunity as a form of government). She is also co-author of the book Tecnopolítica, internet y r-evoluciones (Technopolitics, internet and r-evolutions). She has been and continues to be an advisor to numerous organisations and institutions, such as the Secretariat of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence and the Catalan Government’s Directorates of Digital Society and Digital Administration.