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VOLKER BOLLIG, Berlin

is an architect and consultant, specialising in favela-upgrading and sustainable reconstruction aid. He studied in Berlin, Barcelona and Santiago de Chile and graduated at Technische Universität Berlin. In his thesis, he investigated what can be learned from favelas and their social structures. Volker Bollig conducted slum projects in Mexico, Nicaragua and Chile. He has lead various architecture missions for “Médicins Sans Frontières” in Uganda, Ethiopia and Colombia, i.e. building medical care units. Besides, Bollig works as a consultant at “Archnet International”, Berlin.

BIRGIT HEITFELD, Berlin

is a journalist, lecturer and head of Chilecita Press Office. She also works as a European correspondent for OTR Global. Studied literature and linguistics (MA) in Münster (D), Swansea (GB), Reims (F). Enjoys writing about travel, cross-cultural questions and aviation-related subjects. Spent one year in New York, worked as a Hamburg metropolitan newspaper correspondent and in corporate publishing. Interest: literature, creative writing, capacity building. Publications: “Working Freelance Abroad: Do-it-Yorself-Guide for Journalists (2004). “Die Chilenische Küche”, travel & cook book (2006), with Karla Berndt.

NILS G. INDAHL, Malmö/Oslo

is director of the European Centre for Digital Journalism and associate professor of journalism at the Norwegian School of Creative Studies. He holds a MSc degree in international politics from the University of Copenhagen. In the spring term of 2008 he was a guest lecturer at the Impact Centre, Cape Town, and at the Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch. The second edition of his university textbook, Nettjournalisten, was published by Norwegian Academic Press in August 2007.

MICKE SVEDEMAR, Malmö

is a project manager in the Innovation and Development unit at Malmö University. He is also an assistant professor of interaction design at the School of Arts and Communication. In January 2006, he was founding director of the Kaospilots Öresund, an innovative Scandinavian management programme for social entrepreneurs. From February to April 2008, Svedemar was a Linneus Palme visiting lecturer at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa.

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