C.V.
Experience
Fiorenza SCOTTI
Web design accessibility, information systems analysis and design, telework, e-learning, software engineering
methodologies, assistive technology - quality for web design, equal opportunities for disabled people, gender
dimension, socio-economic environment, - e-Inclusion, knowledge management. At the European Commission:
Evaluator: eTEN Programme, Innovation (Projects and Methodologies of Innovation), in IST sectors: "Applications for
People with Special Needs","New Methods of Work", "Telematics Engineering", "Information Engineering",
"Education"); Reviewer (sector: "Disabled and Elderly"), member of the Programme Committee for the 2nd TIDE
Congress. Review Editor in the Academic Editorial Panel of the European Journal of Engineering for Information
Society Applications (ASLIB, Association for Information Management).
Education and Employment History
In 1978 Degree in Mathematics at the University of Trieste. Since April 1979 to March 2008 employed at INSIEL (software company previously owned by TELECOM ITALIA and previously IRI - FINSIEL Group) and (1984 – 1987)
University of Udine. Since 1991 at the University of Trieste and since April 2009 to February 2010 at the Exhibition of
Trieste.
Since 1995 member of the Board Women and Science (Italian branch of European Platform of Women Scientists) - In
2006 prize for "Fidelity to Work and for the Economic Progress" from the Trieste Chamber of Commerce - Expert of
the Italian Ministry of Productive Activities (2004 - 2008), Member of the Pilot Committee "New Technologies for non
self-sufficient elderly people" of the Province of Milan. - University of Trieste, Faculty of Engineering: 2002-2009
Deputy Director of the Master in Assistive Technology (which received the silver medal from the President of the
Italian Republic); 2001-2006 tutor for the course "Software Engineering" at the Distance Learning Degree in
Informatics Engineering; 1994-2001 regular professor with a contract in Software Engineering at the Course of
Diploma in Informatics Engineering; 1998-2001 tutor for Software Engineering at the Distance Learning Course of
Diploma in Informatics Engineering; 1991-94 regular professor with a contract in Systems for Data Processing at the
Special School of Informatics - University of Udine, Department of Mathematics and Informatics: 1984-87 regular
professor with a contract for Theory and Application of Digital Machines at the degree Course in Computer Science. in 2001 teacher at the course Accessibiliy of websites, Informatics Authority in the Public Administration; tutor of a
researcher of the University of Loughborough (Great Britain) for a LEONARDO scholarship and honors (degree
official) for telework and disabled people from the President of the Italian Republic. In 2002 lecturer of "Electronic
Barriers in Information and Education" at a post-graduate course of the University of Rome 3; - 1997 co-winner in the
ambit of ISdAC of the European Commission Telework Award for the Most Original Contribution to Telework and
researcher at the University of La Coruña supported by the mobility/training grant of LEONARDO; - in 1998 partner in
the EC RTD Periphera extension project and until 2000 collaborator of the Equal Opportunities Commission of the
Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers; - since 1990 to 1994 member in the FINSIEL Group of Interest for
Research on Multimedia, in AMITIE (Association for Managerial and vocational training in software and Information
Technologies in Europe); coordinating the projects: Computer Literacy (EUROTECNET), MUSIC (Multimedia
materials for Software, Information and Communication technologies) (COMETT); COR (Interactive Multimedia
Information Service for Cardiovascular Health) (IMPACT); - since 1986 to 1994 head of the Insiel multimedia
Computer Based Education Laboratory; - 1993 honorable mention at the concourse of pedagogical telematics scenarios
(Geneve, Centre Informatique Pédagogique); in 1992 winner of the Literary and Publishing Award The Author with the
book The Colors of the Cube; in 1988 honorable mention at the GLAXO Award for scientific populars papers; in 1983
winner of a University research post in Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Trieste and
of a scholarship (Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs); - since 1982 to 1989 head of INSIEL Education and Development
Department and in 1982 winner of INFORAV and IRSE prizes for popular papers and ninth at the NATO/CNR
competition for scholarships in foreign labs; - since 1980 to 1984 researcher in software engineering methodologies for
information systems (in the ambit of DAFNETM, EUROMETHOD) and previously programmer/analyst; - Participant
to about 40 courses and 80 congresses (sometimes presenting papers or speaking at workshops).
Bibliography of Publications:
About 50 technical papers, among them: The Conceptual Schema as Didactic Tool, ACM/SIGCSE 1982; Computer
Literacy for the Local Public Administration: Design, Implementation and Diffusion EURINFO 1988; CBE RISKO: an
Epidemiological Computer Based Educational Tool for the Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease 1988; Fundamentals
of Computer Based Health Education and Coronary Heart Disease Prevention by means of Educational Software 1990;
Multimedia Educational Software as a Support Tool for Young Down People Starting on a Career in Informatics, 1995;
New Methods of work in the Information Society: Telework and Disabled People 1999; Quality Indicators and W3C
Standards in European Official Websites, 2002. Books: Methodologies of Structured Programming - Warnier Method,
1985; chapter in "The Electronic Government", APOGEO 2000; co-editor of “ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
Tecnologie di supporto per una vita indipendente”, Maggioli 2005.
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