RESUMÉ
LUIS GERMÁN RODRÍGUEZ L.
Lic. Computer Sciences at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). Postgraduate Studies at Universidad Simón Bolívar (M.Sc. - Venezuela) and London School of Economics and Political Science (Ph.D.). Studies on “National Network Management” and “E-Commerce” (Internet Society, 1995 & 1999) and “Management of Telecommunications” (Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, Venezuela. 1995).
Professor-Researcher, retired but still active, at Instituto de Urbanismo and the School of Computer Sciences, both at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. His main works have been on understanding and assessment of social and organisational impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). He was Coordinator of the Informatics Area of the Instituto de Urbanismo (UCV) and also a former Director of the School of Computer Sciences (UCV).
Currently consultant and Director of FUNREDES - Venezuela (Fundación Redes y Desarrollo) NGO dedicated to projects on the social impact of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in developing countries. (http://funredes.org). He was member of the coordinating team of the projects Methodology and Social Impact of the ICT in America (Mística, http://funredes.org/mistica) and Latin American Observatory of the ICT in Action (Olística, http://funredes.org/olistica).
He works on research and development projects at Center of Transfer of Technology (CTT, http://www.ctteducation.com/), a latinoamerican education services integrator around ICT where is in charge of several specific projects (Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela and some with regional scope).
He has been consultant on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) developments and evaluation of organisational impacts of these technologies for several public and private organisations including the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP), United Nations Institute forTraining and Research (UNITAR), Ministry of Science and Technology, National Council for Science and Technology (CONICIT), Office of Planning of the Higher Education Sector, Intergraph Services de Venezuela, Programa Bolivar (NGO sponsored by the Inter American Development Bank), Banco Mercantil, Banco Unión and Banesco among others. 
He is the former Co-ordinator and first President of the Venezuelan academic network (Internet and information service provider of the higher education sector) REACCIUN (first Venezuelan ISP).
He played an active role on of the Forum of Latin-American and Caribbean Networks since 1991, forum devoted to promote non-profit national networks. Author of several papers published on books and recognised magazines on the subject of information and communication technologies and their insertion on several organizational contexts and the development of the Internet in Latin America. He has been speaker on diverse national and international events, including the conferences of the Working Group on Information Technology for Developing Countries (WG 9.4) of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and the Annual Conferences of Internet Society (ISOC) (INET’93, INET’96 & INET’99). He is a member of ISOC since 1992. He participated in the World Summit of the Information Society (Geneva 2003) presenting several products collaboratively created in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Executive Director of Visionarios'98, international event organized by REACCIUN. Technology Manager of "Venezuela se revela", international event organized by Propyme (organization dedicated to promote small and medium enterprises) for the CONICIT in 1999. 

February 2005