Universita' della Svizzera Italiana

Faculty Member, Webatelier.net

Professor

Faculty of Communication Sciences

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Lorenzo Cantoni graduated in Philosophy and holds a PhD in Education and Linguistics. L. Cantoni is full professor at the University of Lugano (Switzerland), Faculty of Communication Sciences. He is Dean of the faculty, and vice-director of the Institute of Public and Educational Communication. He is director of the laboratories webatelier.net: production and promotion over the Internet, NewMinE Lab: New Media in Education Lab, and scientific director of eLab: eLearning Lab. His research interests are where communication, education and new media overlap, ranging from computer mediated communication to usability, from eLearning to eTourism from ICT4D to eGovernment. Lorenzo Cantoni is research professor at the Center for International Health Services Research & Policy, in the Washington State University and collaborates with the Politecnico di Milano (Como campus, Italy) and the University of the Holy Cross (Rome, Italy). In the years 2003-2008 L. Cantoni has been President of the I.Re.F. - Lombardy Region Institute for Education and Training of Public Administration, the largest Italian regional public administration school.

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