Davide Piga

Revising and improving the special section of the UNDP wiki dedicated to the international economic crisis, making it easier for users to contribute to the ongoing debates as well as to find useful information.

Developed a wiki for the Environment and Energy network featuring: * a semantic archive of Consolidated Replies, therefore searchable by one or several categories at a time, both geographic and thematic; * user-friendly forms for easy edits of CR pages; * automatic maps for a visual display of CRs related to specific countries; * automatic summaries of most recent CRs, bot general and for single specific topics or countries.

Supporting the Management Network Facilitation Team in developing a collaborative tool (wiki) for Knowledge Management within the several Communities of Practice built around the various management related topic areas.

- Developed a wiki as a user friendly web-based tool for sharing knowledge, comparative experiences, good practices and discussion on emerging trends and substantive issues of Democratic Governance; - Developed Knowledge Maps and consolidated reports on the thematic areas of work covered in the accumulated DGP-Net Consolidated Replies to questions from the DGP Community of Practice.

- Developed draft strategies documents and guide-lines to support the activities of the KM team; - Extensive research and compiling of Consolidated Replies in response to queries from the EEG network; - Ideated, proposed and developed a Wiki site for the EEG network, featuring a searchable contacts database, a forum, a searchable archive of documents and other advanced networking tools; - Assisted with the management of the news update of the EEG

- PCM tools; - EC-funded project designing; - Actors, strategies and main issues of International Cooperation (gender mainstreaming, rural and urban development, micro-finance, environmental issues, participatory approach, capacity building, decentralized cooperation, etc.); - Communication studies

- International cooperation; - Development economics; - Statistics; - Sociology of development; - Political science; - Contemporary history (Europe); - International and EU law; - Advanced English.