Iolanda Pensa (Ph.D.) developed her Ph.D. thesis on the Biennial of African arts in Dakar, one of the few Panafrican events. She is an art critic specialized in the African continent and the African diaspora, with a focus on the changes in the status of intellectual property due to ict. She is the scientific director of Lettera27, a non-profit foundation whose mission is to support the right to literacy, education, and the access to knowledge and information. She conducted comparative research in a large number of contexts and countries, with a strong interdisciplinary approach. She is the co-curator of Mobile Access to Knowledge: Resources, interfaces, contents on urban transformations, together with Roberto Casati.