Open University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain)
- Masters in Information Society Studies (2004)

- Ph.D. candidate, Information Society Programme; specializing in ICT for Development

International Institute of Governance (Barcelona, Spain)
Program on Electronic Governance: e-Administration, e-government services and digital democracy. Offered by the Virtual School of Governance of IIG, in collaboration with UNESCO.

University of California at Berkeley , (Berkeley, USA)
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Mechanical Engineering, specialized in Environmental Engineering (Pollution Control) and Heat Transfer.

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) , ( Pasadena , USA )
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering and Applied Science, specialized in Energy, Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer.

8/03 - Independent Consultant (Madrid, Spain)

•  Study about civil society networks in Spain , and network analysis of Spanish Confederation of Developmental NGOs (CONGDE) (July 06)

•  Workshop in the event e-STAS 2006 (Seville), presenting on behalf of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Intl. Cooperation the guidelines of the document prepared for the Ministry about ICT mainstreaming in Spanish Intl. Cooperation. (Jun 06)

•  Preparation of a report about ICT, Development and Intl. Cooperation for the Spanish Confederation of Development NGOs (CONGDE). (Mar 06)

•  Preparation of a ‘Guide for Mainstreaming ICT into Spanish International Cooperation' for the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. (Nov 05 - Feb 06)

•  Evaluation for UN Volunteers and UNDP of the Youth Corps ( Corpo Jovens ) project in Cape Verde, aimed at placing volunteering as a resource linking environmental protection with poverty reduction (via income generation), by appealing to young people. (Sep – Nov 05)

•  Co-editor of upcoming book, “ Information and Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges” , to be published by the IDEA Group Inc.(U.S.) in early 2007

•  Coordinator for research about Inmigration and Digital Inclusion for the Spanish NGO ‘ Aula Solidaridad ' in the project ‘ Madrid Entre 2 Orillas' (Madrid Between 2 Shores). ME2O is part of the EU's EQUAL programme, and deals with the socio-economic integration of immigrants in Madrid . (Apr 2005 – Jul 2007)

•  Lecturer on ICT and Development in Masters in Development programmes of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), the University of the Basque Country and the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain . (ongoing)

•  Workshop about Volunteering and Network Capital at the 2004 IAVE (Intl. Association of Volunteer Effort) World Conference, part of the Barcelona Forum 2004 (Aug 2004)

•  Evaluation for UNDP Argentina of the ‘White Helmets Initiative', on its first 10 years of operation. WHI is a programme led by Argentina and formally supported by the UN, oriented towards humanitarian assistance around the world (Jul-Aug 2004).

•  Workshop about ICT and Social Marketing, in a summer course of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) on ‘Fundraising and Social Marketing' (Jul 2004).

•  Preparation of a paper for UNDP on the applications of ICT in the HIV/AIDS context. (Oct 2003)

•  Representing UN Volunteers at the World Summit for the Information Society, including preparatory meetings and the final December 2003 event. Preparation of a substantive publication on Volunteering, the Information Society and ICT for Development. (Sep-Dec 2003)

Coordinator, e-Volunteering Unit (11/00 –08/03)
Leading a new unit composed of six professionals, created at UNV to increase the agency´s participation in the ICT for Development area. Managing two special programmes: (1) UNITeS (United Nations Information Technology Services), a new global UN initiative to mobilize ICT volunteers on the opportunities of ICT for developing countries; (2) Online Volunteering (with Netaid.org), a service to facilitate volunteering for international development through the Internet. Responsible for setting and implementing strategies on programme formulation, establishing partnerships, resource mobilization, marketing and communications, and web centric services. Advisor to senior management on ICT for Development policies, volunteer networking, and development cooperation in the context of the Information (or Network) Society.

Environmental Specialist / Focal Point for ICT and Development (02/98-11/00)
At the Strategy and Research Unit, overall responsibility for developing and advancing corporate strategies in the areas of Environment. Contributions to the formulation of new programmes/projects. Establishing programming partnerships with institutions inside/outside the UN System. Substantive support to projects and backstopping to UNV staff overall.

Initiating an area of work for UNV ICT for Development, including projects and activities. Developing a mid-term corporate strategy to respond to increased global attention to the digital divide, in order to establish ICT for Development as a new corporate priority for UNV. Involvement in definition of new corporate information services policies.

Establishment of a database for documentation/learning from project experiences. Design of new tools related to programming and project development for UNV Programme Officers.

Regional Programme Officer
Working in the Division for the Regional Programme, Regional Bureau of Latin America and the Caribbean , at UNDP´s headquarters. Overall responsibility for the Bureau´s regional activities on environment and development. Support to regional Global Environmental Facility (GEF) projects. Focal point for the application of ICT to development cooperation, and for the “Science and Technology” areas of the Regional Programme. Regional focal point for Capacity 21 (programme within UNDP related to capacity building for the implementation of Agenda 21). Contribution to formulation and approval of projects, backstopping for country offices, monitoring and evaluation. Work on updating information systems and information management strategies for the Bureau, including initial stages of an intranet for the Regional Bureau. Formulation of a proposal for a hemispheric portal on sustainable development (Plaza 21).

Junior Programme Officer (JPO)
Responsibility over several projects supported by UNDP and implemented by Cuban institutions in the fields of science and technology. Focal Point for Water and Sanitation, and Disaster Management. Advisor to the Environment Officer. Responsibility over the areas of ICT, Technology Transfer, Regional Projects, Human Rights. Contributing author to the first Human Development Report in Cuba . Programming contribution to the next UNDP country cycle in Cuba (1997-1999). Lead role in design and developing of the first UNDP-Cuba website. Fostering relationships with the NGO community, particularly geared to bolster working relationships between UNDP and the European Community.

Environmental Consultant, Industrial Environmental Dept.
Participation in various projects and studies, including:

•  Development of a software program and its user manual for the management of toxic and dangerous wastes
•  Modeling of pollutant dispersion from a large refinery
•  Environmental audit of bottling plants in Brazil and Colombia
•  Study on the "Effect of the Eco-business on traditional industrial regions in decline", for the ENVIRONMENT program, European Commission, DG XII

10/92 - 4/93 SAINCO ( Madrid , Spain )

Environmental Engineer
Design and installation of air and water quality monitoring systems. Responsible for preparing proposals and maintaining contacts with clients. Liaison with foreign companies. Definition and evaluation of technical characteristics of new equipment and market exploration.

Rotary International Foundation Fellow
Overall function as ‘Goodwill Ambassador', maintaining contacts with members of government, business, academic and grass-roots communities. Combined this function with research on two environmental topics:
•  Indoor pollution caused by woodstoves in small villages of the state of São Paulo.
•  Comparative study of mobile source pollution in Brasil and other countries.

Research Associate, Windows and Daylighting Division
Work on the thermal characteristics of new prototypes of highly energy-efficient window systems. Design and performance of experiments with Infrared Thermography. Validation of modeling results with experimental data. Results included in the software program WINDOW 4.0 and subsequent versions, developed by the laboratory.

Systems Engineer
Technical support to the sales team and to customers on the definition and implementation of computer solutions, with particular emphasis in engineering and scientific computing, as well as systems connectivity (LANs, WANs, Ethernet, Token-Ring, etc.).

Manufacturing Engineer
Overall responsibility for the production of the control unit of IBM's 3480 (magnetic tape cartridge subsystem). Management of the production team: assembly floor, design engineers, quality control and procurement departments to ensure reaching goals of production quality and quantity.

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (California Institute of Technology)
Research project for the design and construction of an experimental facility for a water channel to examine the formation and characteristics of shear mixing layers, and resulting vortex structures. Use of Laser Induced Fluorescence (L.I.F.) techniques for the visualizations and filming of the flow.

6/83 - 9/83 Kitsuda Engineering ( Hiratsuka , Japan )

Summer Co-op student
Participant in a pioneer program formed by a medium-size automobile parts manufacturer and Caltech. Use of advanced manufacturing and work­shop equipment, such as numerically controlled mills and lathes, and welding robots.

Hardware and OS: Micros (PC, Mac), Windows and Mac OS – (outdated) experience with engineering workstations and IBM mainframes (VM, MVS, UNIX, IBM/AIX).

Software: Office-type applications, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Project, Dreamweaver, Norton Utilities, browsers and e-mail packages, groupware (Yahoogroups, Smartgroups) – outdated experience in CAD/CAE/CAM packages.

Programming : HTML - outdated experience with Fortran, Pascal and CAD scripts.

English, Spanish (mother tongue), fluent; Portuguese, quasi-fluent; French at low level.

PUBLICATIONS

•  (2007 - upcoming) Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges; Acevedo, M.; Gasco, M.; Erquiza, F. (eds.); Hershey (Pennsylvania): Idea Group Inc. 300 p. ISBN 1-59904-057-3. http://www.idea-group.com/books/details.asp?id=6454

•  (2006) Moreno, Ana; Acevedo, Manuel; Mataix, Carlos; Redes 2.0 La Articulación de las ONGD enEspaña ; Coordinadora de ONG para el Desarrollo-España (CONGDE), Madrid. 85 p.

•  (2006) Integración de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación: Asignatura Pendiente de la Cooperación ; Coordinadora de ONG para el Desarrollo-España (CONGDE), Madrid. 91 p. http://www.pobrezacero.org/CuadernilloTICS.pdf

•  (2005) “ Las TIC en la Cooperación al Desarrollo ” ; in La Sociedad de la Información en el Siglo XXI: un Requisito para el Desarrollo - Vol II: Reflexiones y Conocimiento Compartido; Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Spain. (also available in English; original in Spanish)http://www.desarrollosi.org/

•  (2005) Volunteering and the Information Society: Solidarity@Network_Society.Int http://www.manuelacevedo.net/WSIS/Information_Society_2005.htm ; http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/fileadmin/docdb/pdf/2006/Acevedo_Volunteering_in_the_Information_Society_2005.pdf

•  (2005) “ ICT and Secondary Education: Changing Learning Patterns ”; in: Harnessing the Potential of ICT for Education: a Multistakeholder Approach; UN ICT Task Force series 9; New York, UN ICT Task Force; pp. 215-223. http://www.unicttaskforce.org/perl/documents.pl?do=download;id=936

•  (2005). "Aplicaciones de las TIC como parte de un enfoque integral de desarrollo ante la pandemia del VIH/SIDA”. In: Proceedings of Mundo Internet 2005: X Congreso Internet, Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información. Vol II, pp.56-64. Madrid: Asociación de Usuarios de Internet (Spain).

•  (2005) “La integración de las TIC en la cooperación al desarrollo: posibilidades, discurso y práctica”. In: Proceedings of Mundo Internet 2005: X Congreso Internet, Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información. Vol I, pp. 101-112. Madrid: Asociación de Usuarios de Internet (Spain).

•  (2004) “Tensions at WSIS”; in The World Summit in Reflection (electronic publication); Berkman Center of Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wsis/Acevedo.html

•  (2004) ‘Las TIC en las políticas de cooperación al desarrollo: hacia una nueva cooperación en la Sociedad Red' ; Cuadernos de Tecnología para el Desarrollo Humano – Vol 2, Sept 2004; Ingeniería Sin Fronteras – Madrid. http://www.cuadernos.tpdh.org/file_upload/02_Manuel_Acevedo.pdf

•  (2003) Pandemics in the Network Society: ICT in the time of AIDS . UNDP Practice Note on ICT for Development, Bureau of Development Practice, New York.

•  (2003) “ Enredando al ciudadano global en la cooperación al desarrollo” ; in La Sociedad de la Información en el Siglo XXI: un Requisito para el Desarrollo - Vol I: Buenas Prácticas y Lecciones Aprendidas; Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Spain. (also available in English; original in Spanish) http://www.desarrollosi.org/

•  (2003) “El Siglo del Desarrollo: perspectivas post-Irak”; guest article; War and Peace e-Forum, Campus for Peace, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya http://www.campusforpeace.org/esp/prj/index.htm

•  (2002) Volunteer Networking and Capacity Development. Working paper, United Nations Volunteers; Bonn, Germany. http://www.unites.org/reference/pdf/Volunteer%20Networking%20and%20Capacity%20Development.pdf

•  (1997) Cuba's National Human Development Report, 1997 (contributor). United Nations Development Programme, Havana, 1997.

•  (1992) "Health effects of gas emissions produced by wood stoves in rural homes", Brasil Rotário, August 1992.

•  (1992) D. Arasteh, F.A. Beck, B. Griffith, N. Byars, M. Acevedo; Using Infrared Thermography for the Study of Heat Transfer Through Building Envelope Components; ASHRAE Transactions 1992, V. 98, Pt. 1.

•  (1991) M. Acevedo, D. Arasteh. The Effect of Glazing System Dividers on Overall Window Heat Transfer . Building Technologies Group, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California.