More cyclist than human, Daniel Palencia is a Civil Engineer from UNAM and a Master’s in City Planning from MIT currently based in Singapore. He is currently is spending his efforts on the relationship between urban environments, their denizens, and technology, mostly focusing on crowdsourced data collection and participatory planning in developing countries like Mexico, Indonesia, and Bangladesh. His current work on Fuente, where he leads the team and the technology design, is a data collection platform that aims to empower and inform citizens and organizations by the means of fast, easy to deploy and share self-driven data collection projects. He has participated in numerous efforts as a technologist , tech lead and software architect, from initial idealization to strategist the best technological approaches to create the best UX to go to market.