Manuel Tomas CARRASCO BENITEZ

B.Sc. Computers & Maths, University of London.

Regulatory Affairs

• Former member of the EU Regulatory Delegation in the Expert Working Group M2 in ICH; i.e., the group that developed the Electronic Common Technical Document (eCTD). As such, major contributor to the eCTD.
• Co-author of the EU Module 1.
• Editor of the eCTD Template.
• Author of the eCTDer.
• Proponent and designer of the original Product Information Management (PIM). See also the Structured Product Information (SPI).
• Author of the Xdossier.

Web activities

• Chairman of the WInter96 Symposium.
• During the Sixth WWW Conference:
  • Chairman of the track Producing products for the international markets.
  • Chairman of the Panel Producing Products for International Markets Report to Developers: Initiatives and Standards.
  • Chairman of the Panel Producing Products for International Markets: Getting Started with Multilingualism on the World Wide Web.
  • Co-chairman of the WInter Panel - Conference.
  • Panelist in The Web of Business-to-Business Commerce.
• BOF coordinator for internationalization & multilingualism at the Third (Darmstadt), Fourth (Boston), Fifth (Paris) WWW Conferences.
• Presentations from the Second to the Seventh WWW Concertation Meetings, organized by the European Commission.
• Speaker at the Euro-Med Net 98 Conference
• Member of the jury for the European WWW Business Award'96.

Web publications

• Primary Language in HTML - W3C Note.
• The Web of Babel ?. IPTS Report, May 1997 (The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies). Co-author.
• Web Multilingual Issues. Chair memo for the Sixth WWW Conference.
• WInter Symposium - A report. Tenth International Unicode Conference (Mainz).
• WInter Internet-Draft (lapsed).
• Natural language marking in HTML.
• Multilingual Parallel Hypertext. Tenth International Unicode Conference (San Jose).
• WInter (Web Internationalization & Multilinguism). Position paper for the Fifth WWW Conference.
• Web Internationalization. Poster, Fourth WWW Conference.
• On the multilingual normalization of the Web. Poster, Third WWW Conference.

Electronic Commerce activities

• Rapporteur for the working group multilingualism. G7 Project A Global Marketplace for SMEs.

Courses and conferences

• Multilingualism on the Web. European Commission.
• Web y multilingüismo. Master de Información y Documentación, Universidad Carlos III.
• Multilingüismo en el Internet. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas.
• PCTE. Fundesco.

Newspaper articles

• La "ñ" puede viajar por el Internet. Articulo en el CommunicationsWeek International.
• Ofímatica para grandes organismos. Artículo en El País.
• El sistema integrado. Articulo en El País.
• Comentarios sobre estrategia informática. Articulo en El País.

Miscellaneous

• Individual Member of Unicode.
• Posix Pioneer (Computer Society, IEEE).
• Spanish: mother tongue. English and French: fluent. Italian; good. German: some.
• Playing with Unix, internet, ... for over 20 years.

Tail

• Contact.- mtcarrascogmail.com
• Disclaimer.- I only talk for myself.