Juan Pane is the Chief Innovation Officer at Centro de Desarrollo Sostenible (Center for Sustainable Development) in Paraguay. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Trento – Italy and works as consultant in the field of Open Data and transparency for the World Bank, USAID, OAS and PAHO in Paraguay. He is also a lecturer and researcher for Open Data related topics at the National University of Asunción and the Latin American Open Data Initiative (ILDA). He has experience working in EU funded projects (FP6, FP7). He has published many scientific papers and journals.