Description: Diogo Vasconcelos is Distinguished Fellow, at Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group.
Before joining Cisco in 2007, Diogo was the Knowledge Economic Advisor to the Portuguese President, Cavaco Silva and organized the President’s Globalization Council. He also led his widely studied digital campaign and “digital presidency”. Diogo was founder and president of UMIC, the Portuguese Knowledge Society Agency, from 2002 to 2005.
He was responsible for Information Society, e-Government and Broadband, as well as for the implementation of major initiatives like Virtual Campus, Online Knowledge Library, Citizens Portal, e-Procurement in Public Administration, Broadband Schools, Digital Regions & Cities, Electronic Voting, Digital Inclusion and the New Entrepreneurs’ Programme amongst others. He also represented Portugal in the European Council of Ministers, on the eEurope Advisory Group, OECD eGovernment Group and on the World Summit on Information Society. He was also member of the board of the Portuguese Innovation Agency.
Before his appointment to UMIC, he was elected member of the Parliament.
