Luca Servo

Luca Servo is an Italian knowledge management and online communities expert.

Mixing his interest in photography and his Internet expertise, he has been working on online communities since 1998 with the creation of "Imago", the first Italian online group interested on photography. Imago, hosted by tin.it was later transformed into "Akinda", the first Italian community about photography. After that, he managed "Atlantide", the large online community created by tin.it. Atlantide was the home of "C6", the first Italian Instant Messenger.

Since 2001, he has focused on International development activities, being founding member of Amka, an Italian NGO operating in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, on integrated development programs. Since then he focused on problems related to the digital divide and the possibility to transfer knowledge using the new ICT.

He is a graduate in political science of Università La Sapienza of Rome and has a Master in "International Cooperation and Project Design" with a dissertation on “Bridging the digital divide — Hypothesis of a "Knowledge Community for Community Radio Broadcasters in Africa"” at CIRPS/Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters — AMARC.

He is member of the "KM4dev group" and is now actively collaborating with FAO on the organization's knowledge management projects.

External links

* [http://talksharelearn.wordpress.com/ talk-share-learn (Luca's blog)]
* [http://www.tin.it/ tin.it — an Italian ISP]
* [http://www.km4dev.org/ KM4DEV — a community of international development practitioners interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing]
* [http://www.amarc.org/ AMARC — World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters]
* [http://aler.org/ ALER — Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica]