Blanca Garcia is an interdisciplinary Human Resources Developer & Learning Technologist dedicated to the facilitation, creation and Development Policy research of knowledge-generative environments that engage people at the city-region level. She works as a Researcher in the Public Policy Admin Department of the Northern Borderlands Research College (COLEF). She has joined the World Capital Institute (WCI) as a member of the executive board of directors, in the capacity of Awards Programme Executive Director. In such capacity, she manages the KBD international consultation exercise known as MAKCi Awards (Most Admired Knowledge City Awards). Blanca is also a member of the Executive Board of the Knowledge Cities World Summit (KCWS) that convenes the Summit on an annual basis.
Blanca works under the flag of Knowledge City schemes, focusing in city-region development through networked e-learning as one of the key processes (along with e-health, e-government, e-commerce, etc) of knowledge-based development (KBD) in urban contexts. She has contributed with Knowledge-Cities case studies for a number of Knowledge-based development publications, as well as with knowledge facilitation case studies on KM, PKM and Web 2.0.