Cristobal Garcia is a social scientist and media consultant who recently graduated (June, 2004) from the MIT Comparative Media Studies program where he did research on media politics, wireless technologies in historical cities, and organizational spaces for innovation, with a Master Thesis entitled Cristobal is currently a Research Fellow at and Co-Director of, an initiative building digital story-telling and location-aware systems to augment urban exploration in historical cities, being Venice the test bed. At MIT Political Science, Garcia is developing a political video game for understanding some of the current global challenges faced by nation-states as well as preparing a course on simulation, visualization and political edutainment for IAP and Fall 2005. He is also continuing his research on organizational learning and innovation by presenting his work at MIT and, writing papers for academic conferences and putting together a syllabus that he will be teaching at and maybe elsewhere, sometime soon. Cristobal Garcia is a founder member of the Chilean team of the World Internet Project (WIP), a worldwide research endeavor for the applied study of the interaction between knowledge-based practices and communication technologies, including more than 30 countries and universities in America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Garcia writes monthly columns and articles about Politics, Technology and Society for Que Pasa, a main Chilean magazine.  

He can be reached at  crisgh@mit.edu