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Simona Levi (Founder) | Advocacy<\/p>\n<\/div>

Theatre director, playwright, technopolitical strategist, independent consultant, and activist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Theatre director, playwright, technopolitical strategist, independent consultant, and activist, in 2017 Rolling Stone magazine selected Simona Levi as one of the 25 people in the world shaping the future.<\/p>\n

In 2021, David Fern\u00e1ndez de Castro and Bettina Walter produced the documentary L\u2019excletxa about her work in the field of democratic and digital rights, broadcast by Catalan public television as part of the Sense Ficci\u00f3 series.<\/p>\n

Since 2018, she has designed and co-directed the Postgraduate Course in Technopolitics and Rights in the Digital Age, first at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and later at the University of Barcelona.<\/p>\n

As an activist, in recent years she has focused on renewing democracy in the digital age and on free culture, as well as on the strategic use of digital tools for organisation, communication, democratic action, and the fight against state corruption.<\/p>\n

She is and has been a media commentator and advisor to countless civic organisations and institutions, such as the Working Group on European Digital Sovereignty and Common Digital Tools and Infrastructures of the Directorate-General for Strategic Planning of the Ministry for Digital Transformation of the Government of Spain; the Spanish Government\u2019s Secretariat of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence<\/a>; the Directorate for Digital Society and the Directorate-General for Digital Administration of the Government of Catalonia<\/a> (in both institutions she was a member of the advisory group for drafting the Charter of Digital Rights); the Department of Justice of the Government of Catalonia on the Whistleblower Protection Law; the Cultural Rights Plan of the Ministry of Culture<\/a>; Bithabitat \u2013 Urban Innovation Platform of Barcelona City Council<\/a>; the i2CAT Foundation\u2019s Internet and Digital Innovation Research Centre<\/a>; the Human Rights Advisory Council of the Government of Catalonia; and the European Public Mosaic \u2013 Open Journal on Public Service<\/a> of the School of Public Administration of Catalonia, on issues within her fields of action such as digital rights and the renewal of democracy in the current era; free culture; freedom of expression; the fight against systemic disinformation; and the strategic use of digital tools for organisation, communication, democratic action, and the fight against abuses of state power.<\/p>\n

She has also made numerous parliamentary appearances at national and international level, including the Ministerial Forum for Creative Europe during the Czech Presidency of the European Union in 2009; an appearance before the Culture Committee of the Spanish Congress of Deputies in 2010; and before the Anti-Corruption Committee (2016) and the Transparency Committee (2019) of the Parliament of Catalonia.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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As an activist, in recent years she has focused on free culture, digital democracy, and the strategic use of digital tools for organisation, technopolitical communication, collective action, the fight against state corruption, and the renewal of democracy. An initiator of projects such as Xnet<\/a> and 15MPARATO<\/a>, she designs citizen-led tools to expose corruption and the political accountability behind systemic abuses.<\/p>\n

She was an active figure in the 15M movement from Barcelona<\/a> and in movements for the right to housing (VdeVivienda<\/a>), among others.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Activist. Creation of action-oriented tools<\/p>\n<\/div>

Xnet<\/strong><\/a> (formerly EXGAE<\/strong>): in 2008 she promoted the founding of the EXGAE project, involving other activists, academics, geeks, and people affected by the abuses of the Spanish Society of Authors and other copyright management organisations.<\/p>\n

EXGAE proposed alternative models for cultural dissemination, copyright management, the defence of the Internet, and democracy in the digital age. In 2010, EXGAE changed its name to Xnet due to the lack of a sense of humour on the part of the SGAE, which threatened to sue for trademark and patent infringement. Since then, Xnet has focused on digital rights, data, and networked democracy (mechanisms for citizen participation and oversight of power and institutions); the defence of a free and neutral Internet; the free circulation of culture, knowledge, and information; the defence of citizen journalism and the right to know, inform, and be informed; legal, technical, and communicative action against corruption; and technopolitics understood as practice and action on the network for empowerment, justice, and social transformation.<\/p>\n

Since its founding, Simona Levi has coordinated the project.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Digital rights and digitalisation that respects human rights<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2021, at the request of the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli<\/a>, Levi directed a \u201cReflection paper\u201d published by the European Parliament Research Service at the Publications Office of the European Union, entitled \u00abProposal for Sovereign and Democratic Digitalisation of Europe<\/a>\u00bb. This work was produced as a result of a dialogue session between David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament, Simona Levi, U. von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, former President R. Prodi, and T. Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. The session, entitled \u201cAccess to the Internet: a new human right\u201d, was broadcast live by the European Parliament.
\nThe project includes concrete actions on which Levi is currently working.<\/p>\n

Since 2019, Levi has designed and directed the Democratic Digitalisation of Education Plan together with families, free software companies, and promoting educational centres.
\nThe Plan involves the creation of a comprehensive, auditable, agile, and interoperable digital tool called DD to replace proprietary Big Tech tools in all educational centre activities, as well as a programme to reform the education system for digital training. So far, the Plan has resulted in:<\/p>\n