Pedro worked for six years as a Technical Lead at Hewlett-Packard (Germany) as part of a "virtual development team" scattered across three continents, developing its global e-Commerce (B2B) solutions. In 2006, he quit this job in order to coordinate the Association's activities, and is now working as consultant for Information Systems and Knowledge Management for the DNGO "Lagun Artean" in Guatemala. Mr. Prieto-Martín holds a Degree on Software Engineering (Universidad Complutense) as well as a First Diploma on Philosophy (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). He is Bachelor of Business Administration (Universidad de Alcalá) and holds a Master on "Knowledge and Information Society" at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He is currently pursuing a PhD on e-Participation at the Universidad de Alcalá. Pedro speaks Spanish, English, Portuguese and German.

Since November 2006, he lives in Guatemala, in the extremely beautiful and extremely poor, mayan Department of Sololá, where the famous Atitlán Lake is located. Pedro is providing the basque NGO "Lagun Artean-Entreamigos" with information systems and information strategies to support several participatory processes developed together with five municipalities (a Budget Transparency Project and a Participatory (long-term) Planning Process for the municipalities and their several hundred communities).

Pedro is the head of the "Asociación Ciudades Kyosei" (www.ckyosei.org), an NGO that performs applied research on e-Democracy. Presently, Pedro coordinates its main research project, which aims to design and build an Open-Source Environment that facilitates and fosters Citizen Participation at local level, which could be used both in "developed" and "developing" countries. As part of this project, he spent one year in Fortaleza (Brazil) doing field work around "Participatory Budgeting" experiences and several citizen participation initiatives. Besides this, he has also studied several e-Participation experiences in Europe. Please have a look at www.ckyosei.org to get more information on our projects. We are open for cooperation with any individual or institution involved in local e-Governance.