Arnau Monterde is Director of Participation and Innovation for Democracy at the Barcelona City Council. He is responsible for the decidim.barcelona platform and co-founder of the Decidim platform. He has also promoted the Canòdrom – Center for Digital and Democratic Innovation in Barcelona, a public centre for innovation and research at the intersection between technology and democracy. He has coordinated several programs and projects related to digital rights, free software, technological autonomy, and democratic innovation in the digital era. He holds a PhD in the Information and Knowledge Society from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.