Mayo's self written bio:

I was born in Oliva (Valencia), a small town in front of the Mediterranean sea, 8th of December of 1975. I am part of the first generation born in democracy after the Franco dictatorship in the Spanish State and I started becoming politically active at the Catalan Global Resistance Movement (Barcelona). On 2002, I began focusing my activism in action research issues, mainly though building online spaces and tools for the systematization of the knowledge generated in political mobilization processes. Since 2006 I've been conducting a PhD research at the Social and Political Science Department at the European University Institute (Florence). My thesis is on Online creation communities: Democratic quality in knowledge-making processes (onlinecreation.info). I am visiting the School of information – UC Berkeley until December 2008. I try to put into practice the reflections coming from my search through the creation of an Open E-library On Social Transformation, contributing to the Webteam of the European Social Forum and the World Social Forum, and impulsing the Networked-Politics.info project.