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Blog or Personal/Professional Website:

https://eden.dei.uc.pt/~adf/adfeng.htm

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/adfig/

About Me:

Antonio Dias de Figueiredo is an educator, author, researcher, and consultant on the Relationship between IT and Society and IT in Learning & Education. Between 1984 and 2007, he was a Full Professor of Information Systems at the University of Coimbra, where he created in 1992 the research Center for Informatics and Systems (CISUC) and in 1994 the Department of Informatics Engineering. He was Vice-President for Western Europe of the Intergovernmental Informatics Program of UNESCO, Paris, between 1994 and 1996. He integrated for four years the NATO Special Program Panel on Advanced Educational Technology of the NATO Science Committee, Brussels. He has participated in various European projects, both as a partner and as a science advisor, and acted on various occasions as a consultant to the European Commission in matters regarding the definition of strategies for information and communications technologies in education. He has collaborated with OECD on various occasions in initiatives regarding Information and Communication Technologies in Education. He was the Chairman of PROMETEUS (PROmoting Multimedia access to Education and Training in EUropean Society), a memorandum of understanding promoted by the European Commission, between 2000 and 2001. In 2004, he was the chair of the Context & Learning special interest group of the European network of excellence Kaleidoscope. He has been awarded a Honoris Causa by the Portuguese Open University, and the Sigillum Magnum by the University of Bologna, Italy. He also received the title of Information Society Personality of the Year 2005, awarded by APDSI, Oracle Portugal, and Sun Portugal. He has lectured extensively at both national and international events. He is the author of over three hundred papers and book chapters and co-edited several books. He is a member of the editorial boards of various international and national journals.