Simona Levi

Simona Levi is a theatre director, playwright, activist, technopolitical strategist, cultural manager and curator, and lecturer. Born in Italy and with Spanish nationality, she has been living in Barcelona, Spain, since 1990. She is an activist in the field of freedom of expression and information, digital rights, the free flow of culture and knowledge, strategic use of digital tools for collective action, institutional accountability, protection of whistleblowers and the fight against corruption and disinformation. She has also participated in movements in defence of the right to housing and use of public space.

She is one of the founders of Xnet, the Free Culture Forum, the anticorruption movement 15MpaRato, and the Citizens Group against Corruption at both Catalan and Spanish levels. Simona Levi is coauthor of ''#FakeYou, Fake news and disinformation - Governments, political parties, mass media, corporations, big fortunes: monopolies of information manipulation and cuts to freedom of expression'', published by Rayo Verde (2019).[2], ''Votar y Cobrar - La impunidad como forma de gobierno'' published by Capitan Swing (2017), ''Tecnopolítica, internet y r-evoluciones - Sobre la centralidad de redes digitales en el #15M'' and editor of ''Cultura libre digital - Nociones básicas para defender lo que es de todxs'', both of which were published in 2012 by Icaria.

She is the academic director of the Postgraduate Course in Technopolitics and Rights, first offered at Pompeu Fabra University and, since 2020, at the University of Barcelona.

In 2017, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine chose Simona Levi, as the founder of Xnet and for her work with 15MpaRato, as one of 25 people in the world who are shaping the future.

Simona Levi has been leading Xnet's Democratic Digitalization of Education Plan since 2019 to replace the proprietary tools from big tech companies in schools. As a result of this experience, in 2021, she published for the Publications Office of the European Union the report "Proposal for a sovereign and democratic digitalisation of Europe" at the request of the President of the European Parliament. Provided by Wikipedia