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COOPERACIÓN INTERNACIONAL EN TECNOLOGIAS AVANZADAS (C.I.T.A.), S.L. COOPERACIÓN INTERNACIONAL EN TECNOLOGÍAS AVANZADAS (C.I.T.A.) S.L., was founded on 25 july 1996 as a limited company for “Technical Engineering Services” (Servicios Técnicos de Ingeniería) 100% owned by a Spanish (Unipersonal) and it is closely related in projects, commercial and business activities with Asociación para la Prevención y Estudio de Delitos, Abusos y Negligencias en Informática y Comunicaciones Avanzadas (APEDANICA) a non profit independient organization founded in 1992 concerned with technology security and conflicts .

Miguel Angel Gallardo (1962) is the General Manager of C.I.T.A. and Executive President of APEDANICA. He has been working, only this year, for 6 differents Courts of Law as an expert witness related with computers, telematics, software and data conflicts. His tehcnical background on computer security and cryptology is very well known in several Spanish speaking countries (Argentina, México, Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela) and Organization of American States (Organización de Estados Americanos, OEA) contracted him a technical semminar for “Internet Security” on May 1997, for the Science and Technology National Secretariat of Guatemala and other Central America countries officials and sientists.

Miguel A. Gallardo (1962) has a Degree in High Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Mining School (1986), a Diploma on Criminology from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) Facultad de Derecho (1995) and a Diploma in High International Studies from Sociedad de Estudios Internacionales at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid (1991) with 32 credits in PhD courses in Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores y Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos of Facultad de Informática of UPM and Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática (DIT) of Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (ETSIT) of UPM.

Miguel Angel Gallardo is the creator of a patent for blind people reading from computers in 1984 (tiflotechnology) optimizing ASCII to Braille character set conversion. He was contracted by Unix System Laboratories in London, then an AT&T company, for SVRV4.2 and Enhanced Security documents translation, consultancy and promotion of this official Unix products in Spain.

C.I.T.A. made a proposal for ETS I Call for Tenders 96 (rejected), and now is intensively working in a IBEROEKA#116 (EUREKA like) project for a Funeral and Cemetery Intranet all over Latin America that began in February 1996 with partners in Venezuela, Uruguay and Paraguay. Genetic computerized cemeteries analyzing DNA and genealogy programs with Internet and CD-ROM support are being designed by C.I.T.A. with partners in Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and Mexico.

C.I.T.A. holds all the rights, merits and prestige that Miguel Angel Gallardo can transfer, so as an author of a book on Unix security (“Seguridad en Unix. Sistemas abiertos e Internet”, International Thomson Publishing-Ed. Paraninfo, 1996, ISBN: 84-283-2240-6), a course responsible, and collective publications for Spanish Justice, prosecutors and Police technical advice (“Ambito Jurídico de las Tecnologías de la Información”, Cuadernos de Derecho Judicial XI, 1996, Consejo General del Poder Judicial, ISSN: 1134-9670). C.I.T.A. is very well known in sensitive governments departments (Secretaría de Estado de Interior, Comisaría General de Información y Guardia Civil).

Miguel Angel Gallardo has more than 70 articles and publications in several countries related with Computer Science, Social Rights, Criminology and New Technologies. Some ot them are in English (“KIO diskettes sotlen from Spanish Government”, Software Engineering Notes, Published by the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on software Engineering, ACM Volume 18, Number 2, Apr 1993, “Internet Electronic Money and Gambling made easy”, Intergame, Sep. 1995, “Electronic Money and Gambling in the Internet”, CasinoWorld, Dec. 1995, and “Artificial Intelligence and Gambling” CasinoWorld, jan 1996) and many more in Latin América (“Tiempo Real en Unix”, “Criptografía fuera de USA”, “Seguridad en Sistemas Abiertos o cómo averiguar paswords de Unix”, “Quo Vadis, Intel”, ComputerWorld Spain and Colombia, “La industria de la seguridad en las Tecnologías de la Información”, Informática Magazine del Paraguay, Sep. 1995, “La Tecnología de la Seguridad de la Información en la Economía Industrial”, El Industrial de Guatemala, April 1997).

Miguel Angel Gallardo has been professor of Mathematics Department of Alcalá de Heneres University (1992-1994), and at Carlos III University of Madrid (1994-1996), lecturer for Cryptology and “Derecho de las Tecnologías de la Información” advanced courses and ad honorem professor of Sociedad de Estudios Internacionales with the lecture “Internet y su influencia en las relaciones internacionales y la globalización” in 1996. He was invited as a professor-consultant in "Intelligence High school" and Foreing Affairs communications department of Argentina in 1995, and in the Institute of Strategic Studies in China (Beiging and Shanghai) in 1994.

Miguel Angel Gallardo is quoted in PGP Public Key Cryptography program documents since 2.0 versions because he advised Phil Zimmermann technicaly while translating and broadcast PGP in Spanish since 1991.

Ing. Miguel Angel Gallardo Ortiz , CEO of C.I.T.A.
COOPERACIÓN INTERNACIONAL EN TECNOLOGÍAS AVANZADAS
C.I.T.A. SL, Apartado Postal (P.O. Box) 17.083 - 28080 Madrid, España
Tel.: (+341) 474 38 09 - Modem/Fax: (+341) 902 99 83 79, Internet E-mail: miguel@cita.es
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