Anna Carola Freschi (Ph.D. in Political Sociology at the University of Florence, Faculty of Political Sciences). She is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Bergamo, where she teaches Sociology and Economic Sociology. Her main work is about e-participation in an extended meaning (ICTs applied to participation in institutional and non institutional contexts). She wrote articles, essays and books about innovation policies, local governance transformations and the social implications of networked society for social and political participation in the Italian society. She is the author of the strategic section of the Italian Guidelines on digital citizenship, a central document of the national Government to support local e-democracy initiatives. She collaborates with the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Florence (Ph.D. Program in Sociology and Political Sociology), where she is scientific responsible of the Section on “Forms of politics in the network society” of CIUSPO (Inter-Universities Centre of Political Sociology). At the same Faculty, she is partner and co-founder of CAMBIO-Lab of research on social transformation. She is member of the Editorial Board of Sociologica, the Italian review of Sociology on line, (www.sociologica.mulino.it). She has been currently coordinating a Group of researchers, who collects sociological expertises in social inequalities, deliberative democracy, gender issue, young and studying some Italian local experiences of e-participation in the institutional contexts (urban strategic planning, participatory budgeting, regional law-making, Agenda 21 etc.).