Daniel Pimienta was born in Casablanca (Morocco),read Applied Mathematics in Nice (France) and hold a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences.

After creating a Software House specialized in APL, he joined IBM France, La Gaude Laboratory, and worked 12 years as Telecommunication System Architect and Planner, participating in voice/data integration products, videotex and OSI protocol testing.

In 1988, he joined Union Latina, in Santo Domingo, as Scientific Advisor and Head of REDALC project. He focusing ICT for development. With the support of European Union and Unesco his team designed the first PC based multilingual interface to networks (MULBRI 1989) and built (and operated) Research and NGO networks in various LA&C countries: Peru (RCP-1991), Dominican Republic (REDID-1992) and Haiti (REHRED-1993).

In 1993, he launched the Foundation Networks & Development (FUNREDES) an international NGO in Santo Domingo of whom he is the president.

The main lines of activity are managing virtual communities, sensitizing and educating users, elaborating multi-stakeholders strategies, experimenting appropriate methodologies for sustainable development, with a special focus on:
- Dparticipative democracy with ICT and research-action on social impact of ICT (MISTICA)Stockholm Challenge finalist 2001;
- Observation of ICT public policies and alternative methodologies for IS Indicators (OLISTICA);
- Observing languages and cultures within the Internet (LANGUAGE AND CULTURE);
- Caribbean region integration (CARIBTIC, CARDICIS);
- Efficient and plurilingual virtual communities (EMEC, TRADUCCIÓN AUTOMÁTICA);
- Collaborative work with ICT (CARIBCAD, REDISCTIC).

Daniel Pimienta is an international speaker and writer on ICT4D and is an active civil society actor in the World Summit of Information Society as well as an obstinate promoter of institutional and professional collaboration in LA&C. A coordinating expert of the Alliance of the “Three Linguistic Spaces” (Agencia de la Francofonía, CESIB, CPLP, OEI, Unión Latina – http://3el.org). He is member, for the Caribbean, of the expert committee for the Francophone Virtual Universityand of the steering committee of GCNP andEUROLATIS Member of Argentina Academy of Arts & Communication Science, he has been nominated for the 2003 “World Technology Award for Ethics and Innovation