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THE PRESENTERS
GLOBALGIVING: Mari Kuraishi - President, GlobalGiving Foundation
Mari joined the World Bank in 1992 where she managed and created some of the Bank's most innovative projects. Along with GlobalGiving co-founder Dennis Whittle and their teams, Mari organized the first series of strategic forums with the World Bank's president and senior management, and the first ever Innovation and Development Marketplaces. She also designed a range of investment projects in the Russia reform program, including a large-scale residential energy efficiency project, structural adjustment loans, and the World Bank's first legal reform project. In addition to her native Japanese, Mari also speak Russian, German, Italian, and French. She has an undergraduate degree in history from Harvard University and did graduate work in Russian and Japanese history and politics at Harvard and Georgetown Universities. Mari also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
ENGENDER HEALTH: William Lester, Chief Information Officer
William (Bill) Lester is currently Chief Information Officer at EngenderHealth, where he serves as a strategist on knowledge management projects. Currently, he is focusing on the improvement of information sharing within the organization and with partners, funders, and clients. Mr. Lester is a founding member of the Non Profit Organization Knowledge Initiative (NPOKI) and is a board member of N-TEN (Non Profit Technology Enterprise Network), NPower, and KABISSA.
Prior to joining EngenderHealth, Mr. Lester was a senior technology consultant for Keane, Inc., an international consulting firm. He holds degrees from the College of the Holy Cross, The New England Conservatory of Music, and Juilliard.
http://www.npoki.org
http://www.engenderhealth.org
Digital Vision Program: Stuart Gannes, Director
Stuart Gannes brings a lifelong interest in learning and innovation to the position of Director of the Stanford Digital Vision Fellowship program. His career spans the disciplines of journalism, software publishing corporate research, and education. After graduating with a BA from the University of Michigan, Gannes received his Masters in Education and Social Policy at Harvard University. Working as a journalist in New York, he covered the field of higher education, and then moved to Time-Life Books where he edited numerous “How-to” books for popular audiences. Later, as Associate Editor at Discover and Fortune Magazines he covered science and technology and focused on the expanding use of computer technology in business and society at large. In 1988-89 Gannes was a journalism fellow at Stanford University. Afterward he remained in Silicon Valley and entered the computer industry, working for Mips Computer Systems, before founding a software company, called Books That Work, where he served as CEO and publisher.
Taking advantage of the increasing availability of powerful, low cost personal computers, Books That Work developed award-winning software tools that made it possible for non-professionals to design and visualize projects with 3-D graphics. Following the sale of the company in 1997, Gannes accepted a position as Vice President of Internet Applications for AT&T Labs in Menlo Park, California. At AT&T he was responsible for advanced development and service prototyping. Under his leadership, research scientists worked on a variety of practical projects, including wireless data services, e-mail clients, computer-based voice response systems, and authentication tools.
CARLOS ALFONSO: Information Network for the Third Sector
Carlos Afonso has participated in the evolution of the new ICTs since their introduction in LAC region by promoting and defending the interests of the third sector. He has a broad knowledge of ICT issues, and his experience is transversal to most of the issues related to ICTs: free software, digital inclusion, intellectual property, Internet governance, etc. Carlos Afonso is part of the RITS team, a NGO-oriented services and capacity-building network on information and communication technologies using the Internet as its main medium. In the late 60's he was an important person fighting against the dictatorship in Brazil.
He was in exile in Chile, Panama and Canada. This last country adopts him as a Canadian citizen. During the re-democratisation process, Mr. Afonso worked for democratising the access to communications. The amnesty allowed him to return to Brazil. Carlos Afonso and Herbert de Souza (known as Betihno) founded one of the most important Brazilian NGOs, the Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Analysis, IBASE.
Mr Afonso designed, implemented and managed the AlterNex project, the first computer-based communications and information system in Latin America dedicated to serve civil society organizations. He is a co-founder of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). In 1991-1992, Mr Afonso proposed and coordinated the "UNCED Information Strategy Project in Rio" (UNCED ISP/Rio), first Internet project specifically developed for a UN conference. ISP/Rio's aims were to provide communications and information through the Internet so that organizations which had not been able to come to Rio was able to follow up on the events via the network. Carlos Afonso is also an independent consultant of the UNDP, IDRC, among other organizations. He is author of many books, articles and studies in different languages in relation to Internet development political and social issues. One of his fields of specialization and expertise is Internet Governance and ICANN. Besides his technical knowledge, he has recognized intellectual and political autonomy and broad respect for his ethical and democratic behaviour.
Fabio Nascimendi: VIT@LIS
Fabio Nascimbeni has a Degree in Economics, with an international business management specialisation, and is finalising a PHD on ICT for Development in the Knowledge Society. In his actual position of research and Development Manager in the MENON Network (www.menon.org), he is in charge of research coordination, business development, coordination of international working groups, policy advisory and strategic consultancy. He conducted/conduces research, management and coordination activities in the frame of a number of trans-national projects in the field of e-learning (namely ACTIVe, eWATCH, L-Change, DELOS, POLE, SEEQUEL, Valnet, HELIOS, Triangle, TRACE, Value Scout, see www.education-observatories.net).
He has actively participated in the set up of a number of international entities (MENON EEIG, Multipalio EEIG, European Foundation for eLearning Quality). He is managing, in collaboration with the European Commission, the International Stakeholders Component of the @LIS Programme, focusing on the cooperation of Europe and Latin America in the fields of e-learning, health, e-government, e-inclusion, and the SINCERE Network, focusing on the collaboration of Europe, Latin America and South Easy Asia on Educational Research.
http://www.alis-online.org
http://www.menon.org
Ethan Zuckerman: Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Globalvoices and Geekcorp
Ethan Zuckerman an activist, blogger and geek, living in Western Massachusetts and working in Cambridge as a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School as a research fellow. He is co-founder of Global Voices, a project designed to feature citizen-created media from around the world. His research focuses on ways that citizen's media can address longstanding biases in the news media.
Before working at the Berkman Center, Ethan founded Geekcorps in 2000, a non-profit organization that shipped geeks to the developing world to work with technology entrepreneurs and community internet projects. Prior to that, he was part of the team that founded Tripod.com, one of the early online community companies. When not blogging, researching or making trouble, he chairs the board of directors of Worldchanging.com, sites on the board of Open Society Institute's Information Program and works on a variety of fun tecnology and development projects.
In 2002, Ethan won the MIT's Technology Review Magazine award for his contribution to human kind service using Technology. He was also named in the TR100 List (100 innovative people younger than 35). Ethan leads Worl Economic Forum for a global tomorrow.
His blog is at www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog, and Global Voices is http://www.globalvoicesonline.org.
http://www.geekcorps.orgwww.ethanzuckerman.com
TACTICAL TECH: STEPHANIE HANKEY - MAREK TUSZYNSKI
Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski, co-founders of TacticalTech, the organisers of Africa Source. Co-founder Marek Tuszynski, from Poland, and I started Tactical Tech after we both worked on a project for called OSI Technology Support for Civil Society.
Stephanie Hankey is the co-founder and partner of Tactical Tech. Stephanie spent nearly five years previous to this working for the Open Society Institute (OSI). Initially working on the Electronic Publishing Program, she then established and ran the Technology Support for Civil Society project for OSI working with NGOs and technologists in Europe, Asia and Africa. Stephanie has a background in information design and has worked as creative director and producer at various multimedia companies. She was the editor-in-chief of Pulp magazine, Manchester and has a masters in Computer Related Design from the Royal College of Art, London, England
Marek Tuszynski is the co-founder and partner of Tactical Tech. Marek has mixed backgrounds, by education art historian, by profession IT and NGO consultant, adviser and trainer, sometimes film, event and sound maker, pretty often NGO activist. In the 90s Marek worked as the director of the Internet Program for the Stefan Batory Foundation, a civil-society foundation based in Warsaw. In parallel he was a curator of many art exhibitions and music events. He was also a board member of Klon/Jawor (a research and infrastructure NGO), funder/board member of the International Contemporary Art Network based in Amsterdam and The Second Hand Bank (a refurbished & redistributed electronic equipment NGO). He has worked extensively as an international consultant for civil-society and art-based projects including the Information Program of the Open Society Institute and the King Baudouin Foundation in Belgium on the "Improvement of Inter Ethnic Relations" program.
Conference description
The Tactical Technology Collective's aim is to advance the use of new technologies as a tactical tool for civil-society in developing and transition countries. We are a not-for-profit stichting (foundation) based in Amsterdam.
ASPRATION TECH: ALLEN GUNN
Aspiration is led by Executive Director Allen Gunn, whose skills include software development, technology project management, and nonprofit program development and expansion, always with an eye toward sustainable innovation, and Assistant Director Heather Carpenter, whose passion for nonprofit operational excellence knows no bounds. In addition, Aspiration benefits from the expertise of an active and involved board of directors.
Executive Director Allen Gunn has over twenty years of software development and capacity building expertise. He has shepherded large software projects through all stages of development: from inception, design, development, and testing to deployment, support and marketing in environments ranging from start-up to large corporation to nonprofit. Drawing on engineering, senior management, and volunteer experiences, gunner is a skilled communicator, trainer and facilitator in both the nonprofit and corporate sectors who is passionate about helping nonprofits and NGOs make better use of software technology. He has been closely involved with the US and international technology activist communities; the Silicon Valley engineering, venture, and funding world; environmental activists and organizations, and academic communities. He is a firm believer in melding hard work with serious fun.
http://www.aspirationtech.org/
Open Standards International Symposium (OSIS): EDDAN KATZ
Eddan Katz is Executive Director of the Information Society Project and lecturer in law at Yale Law School. His subjects are intellectual property, cyberlaw, and telecommunications. He has a B.A. from Yale and a J.D. from U.C. Berkeley, School of Law, Boalt Hall.
Eddan Katz is the Executive Director of the Information Society Project and Lecturer-in-Law at Yale Law School. He has written articles and teaches in the areas of cyberlaw, intellectual property, telecommunications, and bioethics. He also wrote the hypertext poem Revolution is not an AOL Keyword, which has since been made into a T-shirt through the public domain license under which it was released. Eddan received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC, Berkeley in 2002, with a Certificate in Law and Technology and honors in Intellectual Property Scholarship. He was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Information Management and Systems at UC, Berkeley in 2002-3; and a Resident Fellow with the ISP in 2003-4. Eddan received his B.A. in philosophy from Yale in 1997.
http://research.yale.edu/isp/eventsosis.html
http://www.yale.edu/
CLUB OF ROME – WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION: RAOUL WEILER
Raoul Weiler is President of the Brussels-EU Chapter of The Club of Rome and member of the Executive Committee of The Club of Rome.
He spent several years as a post doctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Catholic University of America in Washington DC in the US and at the Centre de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, France. Weiler’s career includes applied research, engineering and manager of information technology of a German multinational chemical company.
During his professional activities, he was elected president of the Royal Flemish Engineers Association (K VIV), counting 11.000 academic engineers. He was long time active founder-president of different technological working groups and president of several international symposia, conferences and the World Congress on Filtration.
Weiler has lectured at different universities and teaches now at the University of Leuven about the relationship between technology and society for last year students in engineering and doctoral student.
Weiler is actively participating in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) with a variety of initiatives centered around ICT and Education, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation.
www.wikimediafoundation.org
http://www.clubofrome.org/
Belén Perales, director of RSC, IBM, Spain
International Bussines Machines (IBM), was born in the twenties in the United States. It was headed by Thomas J.Watson, when millions of inmigrants from all over the world were arriving to this country. Since its origins this company set up the basis of what nowadays is known as Corporate Social Responsability (RSC), helping the people with disabilities, minoritarium colectives and marginated sectors like the black population, to become members of the society. In Spain, this Known company in technologies of information has been carrying out social action programmes for over 10 years, and which has been stronger in the last five years.In this interview, we will know by Belén Perales, director of RSC, the objectives and achivements of these proyects.
LUIS VIVES FOUNDATION
The Luis Vives Foundation is a private non-profit organisation, whose mission is the support and strengthening of the Social Action Third Sector, as well as the dynamization of social action in our country.
The Luis Vives Foundation was created in 1987, after the aggregation of various pre existing foundations, collecting the spirit of the illustrious Spanish Renaissance man Juan Luis Vives, who in the XVI century promoted Social Action and fought for principles of justice, and the defence and protection of people’s rights.
Objectives 1.Contribute to the strengthening, improvement and professionalization of the social sector organisations. By professionalization, we understand that not only the non-profit organisations have the ideal staff, but that their structures and management systems are sufficient and are adapted to the activities that they carry out. Thus, we aspire to:
- 1 Improve management systems
- 2 Promote capacity building
- 3. Promote the exchange, partnership work and the broadcasting of good practices amongst organisations
- 4. Provide spaces and tools for analysis, reflection and debate on matters relevant to the Third Sector
- 5. Stimulate the study and research and spread useful information and relevant publications for those organisations
- 6. Stimulate and facilitate social participation; voluntary work, awareness raising
http://www.fundacionluisvives.org/
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