Amr Aljowaily is First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Egypt in Geneva. His responsibilities include
UNCTAD, the ICT agenda of the WTO, the ITU and the WSIS follow up. He was a member of the Egyptian delegations to the two phases of the
WSIS. He holds a BA in Political Science, an MA in Middle East Studies from the American University in Cairo, and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics. He published some of the earliest analytical works in Arabic on ICTs and international relations, and was the co-editor of the pioneer issue theme of the “International Politics” periodical (Al Siyassa Al
Dawliya) on the impact of the information revolution on international relations, in January 1996. He was also a lecturer in the Political Science Department of AUC from 1994-1996, during which time his classes addressed the socio-political dimensions of the Information Society. He was seconded to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology as Coordinator of International Relations from 2001 to 2003.
Ms Karen
Banks
Association for Progressive Communication, London
Karen Banks is a networking pioneer who has worked with ICTs and their application as a tool for social change since 1990. She coordinates the Association for Progressive Communications’ (APC) participation in the WSIS process and has been active in facilitation of the Civil Society content and themes group and an active member of the Human Rights, Information Security, Gender and European caucuses and working groups. She leads APC’s work in the CRIS (Communication Rights in the Information Society) campaign and has recently taken up position as Networking and Advocacy Coordinator for APC after coordinating APC’s Women’s Networking Support Programme for eight years and coordinating APC’s internet rights work globally, and in Europe from 1998-2001. She is a Director of GreenNet (the APC Member in the UK), trustee of Privacy International, an international privacy rights and civil liberties watchdog based in the UK, member of the civil society working group on the Commonwealth Action Programme for the Digital Divide, member of the WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) and was recently awarded the Anita Borg Social Impact Award with the APCWNSP.
Mr Bertrand de La
Chapelle
Director, WSIS-Online.net, Paris
Bertrand de La Chapelle is an active promoter of multistakeholder governance processes. He has worked towards dialogue between civil society, private sector and governmental representatives within the WSIS process over the last four years. He is the co-coordinator of the Civil Society Working Group on Implementation and Follow-up, as well as a member of the WSIS CS Internet Governance Caucus and the Civil Society Bureau. He is currently Director of the wsis-online.net platform. Mr de La Chapelle is also a member of the Board of the NGO Bridge Initiative International and a regular partner of the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation. A diplomat by training (as Head of the Mission for New Information Technologies of the French Foreign Ministry from 1998 to 2001, he was a member of the G8 DOT Force), he also enjoys nine years of private sector experience, including four years as founder and President of Virtools, a company providing a leading development environment for 3D interactive content. In 2002 Mr de La Chapelle conducted research on multistakeholder governance mechanisms in his position as Special Advisor to the Director of Institut Français des Relations Internationales, the leading French think tank on international relations.
Ms Veronica
Cretu
Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme, DiploFoundation and
President of the “CMB” Training Center, Chisinau
Veronica Cretu is the President and founder of the “CMB” Training Center, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. The mission of “CMB” is to provide short-term, career-focused education and training in a flexible, learner-centered and supportive environment. At the moment, the Center has three main directions: social projects, consultancy in management and leadership, and English language training programmes. Ms Cretu is a graduate of Diplo’s “Postgraduate Diploma in Diplomacy.” She currently collaborates with Diplo as a tutor in the IG Capacity Building Programme and through research on socio-cultural aspects of IG with a special focus on education and mass media. Her areas of interest are adult education (cooperative learning and online learning), as well as human resources management, general management, leadership and project management.
Avri Doria is an independent researcher currently affiliated as a research consultant with Luleå University of Technology in Sweden and with ETRI in the Republic of Korea. She also works part time in the CTO Office of Operax AB as a senior consultant. Ms Doria has been involved in the development of Internet protocols and architectures for over 25 years and is an active participant in the IETF, co-chair of the IRTF Routing Research group, Technical Committee Chair of the Multi Service Forum, an active participant in WSIS Civil society and was a member of the WGIG. Ms Doria is a founder of the Nomadic Women’s ICT Network, a new NGO focusing on increasing the ICT opportunities for nomadic and semi-nomidic women, and has recently become a member of the APC Women’s Networking Support Program. Her current projects include research into methods of bringing the Internet into areas that are communication challenged, and she is working with the semi-nomadic Sámi population of Sapmi (aka Lapland) to develop an ICT infrastructure for the UNESCO heritage region of
Laponia.
Dr William
Drake
President, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, Geneva
William J. Drake is President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and a consultant in Geneva, Switzerland. He is, inter alia, co-editor of the MIT Press book series The Information Revolution and Global Politics, and a former member of the Working Group on Internet Governance. He has been a Visiting Senior Fellow at the University of Maryland, a Senior Associate and the Director of the project on the Information Revolution and World Politics at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Associate Director of the Communication, Culture and Technology Program, Georgetown University, and an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. His books and monographs include Governing Global Electronic Networks, Reforming Internet Governance, Information and Communications Technology for Peace, From the Global Digital Divide to the Global Digital Opportunity, Toward Sustainable Competition in Global Telecommunications, Telecommunications in the Information Age, and The New Information Infrastructure.
Robert Guerra is a leading privacy advocate based in Toronto, Canada. He helped establish Privaterra - an ongoing project of the SAGE Charitable Foundation that works with human rights NGOs on issues of data privacy, secure communications and information security. He currently sits on the board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), and was actively involved in the preparatory process of the UN World Summit on the Information Society, in the capacities of panelist at the Pan European and Latin American Regional Meeting, NGO advisor to the Canadian delegation, and focal point for CPSR. He also sits on the advisory board of several human rights and non-profit organisations, including the international youth organisation “Taking IT Global.”
Ms Ayesha
Hassan
Senior Policy Manager for E-Business, IT and Telecoms, Executive in Charge of ICT Policy, ICC International Secretariat, Paris
Ayesha Hassan manages the ICC’s Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms. She is in charge of the Coordinating Committee of Business Interlocutors (CCBI), a vehicle mobilising and coordinating the involvement of the worldwide business community in the process leading to the World Summit on the Information Society (2003 and 2005). In 2004, Ms Hassan accepted the UN Secretary General’s invitation to participate in the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). She also served on the UN Secretary General’s Task Force on Financial Mechanisms. She has represented the ICC on numerous occasions, participating and making presentations at international and regional events including the G8 Dot Force and the UN ICT Task Force, OECD, WTO, ITU Telecoms and the EU Commission. Ms Hassan is an experienced lawyer, and has a background in dispute resolution, international policy, and e-commerce issues. She is former head of online dispute resolution services at
SquareTrade.
Dr Jeanette
Hofmann
Social Science Research Center - Berlin
Since 2004, Jeanette Hofmann has worked as a Research Fellow in the Research Unit Innovation, Organisation and New Forms of Governance at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin, where she has also been the Programme Leader of the Research Unit for Internet Governance. She has lectured in Politics and Communication at Duisburg-Essen University. Since 2003, she has been a Fellow of the Collaborative Research Center 597 Transformations of the State, Project Area The Future of the Democratic Nation State, Subproject Regulation and Legitimation in the Internet. In 2004 and 2005, she was a member of the ICANN Nominating Committee. Since 2003 she has been a member of the German Civil Society Coordination, the German Delegation, and co-coordinator of the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus for the World Summit on the Information Society.
Professor Ang Peng
Hwa
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ang Peng Hwa is Dean of the School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he teaches and researches media and Internet law. He was a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance. He is the author of Ordering Chaos: Regulating the Internet, published by Thomson in 2005, which argues that the Internet can be and is being regulated. The book was partly written while he was on sabbatical at the Kennedy School at Harvard University as a Fulbright scholar and at Oxford University as a visiting scholar. A lawyer by training, he worked as a journalist before going on to pursue a Master’s in Communication Management at the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in Mass Media at Michigan State University.
Professor Peter Serracino
Inglott
University of Malta
Peter Serracino Inglott has lectured in philosophy at the University of Malta since 1971. He has served as Chairman of the Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta since 1987 and Director of the International Ocean Institute – Malta Operational Center since 1998. He was the Rector of the University of Malta from 1987 to 1988, and 1991 to 1996, and Chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology from 1987 to 1996. He has lectured as a visiting professor in Paris, Ottawa, Cincinnati, Milan, Venice and Palermo. Professor Inglott has served in various capacities with a number of organisations, including the Maltese Broadcasting Authority, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Commonwealth of Learning, the Commonwealth Science Council, the Mediterranean Society of Philosophy, and UNESCO. He is the author of numerous books and articles mainly on the border area between philosophy and the human sciences.
Professor Wolfgang Kleinwächter
University of Aarhus, Denmark
Wolfgang Kleinwächter is a Professor in the Department for Media and Information Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and also in the Department for Communication, University of Tampere, Finland. He has an academic background in Communication, International Relations and International Law, and has lectured at Universities in Germany, Finland, the USA and Sweden. He is the founding Director of the European School of Journalism (HALESMA) at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He has been a key-note speaker, panellist, moderator and rapporteur at numerous international conferences on the Information Society, Information Law and Internet Governance, including ITU, EU, OECD and UNESCO conferences. Professor Kleinwächter has written numerous books and articles on the Information Society, Information Law and Internet Governance (including ICANN), for Telecommunication Policy, Gazette, Multimedia & Recht and other publications.
Markus Kummer is the Executive Coordinator of the Secretariat supporting the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). He was appointed to this post by the United Nations Secretary General in March 2004. His mandate was extended to prepare for the convening of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). From 2002 - 2004 he held the position of eEnvoy of the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Berne. His main tasks included foreign policy coordination with regard to information and communication technologies in general and the WSIS in particular. Mr Kummer was a member of the Swiss delegation during the first phase of the WSIS where he chaired several negotiating groups, including the group on Internet Governance that developed an agreed text on this issue for the WSIS Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action. He is a career diplomat who served in several functions in the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Berne, Lisbon, Vienna, Oslo, Geneva and Ankara.
Jovan Kurbalija is the founding Director of DiploFoundation. He is a former diplomat with a professional and academic background in international law, diplomacy, and information technology. Since the late 1980s he has been involved in research on ICT and law. In 1992, he established the Unit for IT and Diplomacy at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies in Malta. After more than ten years of successful work in the field of training, research, and publishing, in 2003 the Unit evolved into DiploFoundation. Dr Kurbalija currently directs online learning courses on ICT and diplomacy and lectures in academic and training institutions in Switzerland, the United States, Austria, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Malta. His main areas of research are diplomacy and the development of an international Internet regime, the use of hypertext in diplomacy, online negotiations, and diplomatic law.
Mr Latif
Ladid
President, The New Internet based on IPv6
Latif Ladid is the President of the IPv6 FORUM, and Chair of the European IPv6 Task Force. He is also an Emeritus Trustee of the Internet Society, and works as an independent international consultant. He is a member of the IPv6 Ready Logo Program Board and has been a researcher on multiple European Commission Next Generation Technologies IST Projects. He is a member of 3GPP PCG, 3GPP2 PCG, the UN ICT Task Force Policy WG, the IEC Executive Committee, the ITU-T Informal Forum Summit. He is also Vice Chair of SuperComm EntNET 2005.
Mr Guido
Maccari
Head of IT and Network Services, OECD, Paris
Guido Maccari joined the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in late 1987 and has been head of Information Technology and Network Services (ITN) since 1996. In this capacity, he is responsible for the development, implementation and support of computing and networking systems and services. Recently, Mr Maccari has undertaken extensive reforms to ICT services, focussing on stronger client orientation and more effective support to the OECD system of intergovernmental cooperation committees. On the technical side, the emphasis has been on the migration from mainframe computers to Y2K and Euro compliant client-server facilities, the establishment of common desktop systems for cost-effective information creation and management, and the development of a worldwide infrastructure to service the exchange of information and networking needs of the OECD. Mr Maccari has an academic background in Statistics and forty years of professional experience in information and communications technology. Before joining the OECD, he worked for 14 years with the United Nations - as Management Systems Analyst in New York, Head of Data Processing Services in Geneva offices and Executive Counselor to the Director of Information Systems also in New York.
Eskedar Nega is a Programme Officer in the Development Information Services Division at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). She works with a team promoting ICTs for Development in Africa through the formulation of inclusive national ICT policies and strategies, the development of sectoral information and knowledge resources at national and regional levels, and capacity development programmes. Under the framework of the African Information Society Initiative, the ECA is engaged in harnessing information for development through the deployment of practical strategies and programs to help lead Africa towards digital inclusion. Before joining the Economic Commission for Africa in 2000, Ms Nega lectured in International Public Law and Communications at the University of Law in Toulouse, France. She worked at the CERD-Com, a Center dedicated to research on global and national trends in areas such as the economic and legislative regimes of the ICT sector.
Claudia Padovani is a researcher on Political Science and International Relations in the Department of Historical and Political Studies at the University of Padova, Italy. She teaches International Communication and Institutions and Governance of Communication, while conducting research in the fields of the global and European governance of the information and knowledge society. She is particularly interested in the role of civil society organisations and transnational social movements as “stakeholders” in global decision-making processes. From this perspective she has closely followed the WSIS process and written extensively on the experience. She is a member of the International Council of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), the European Communication and Research Association (ECREA) and the international campaign Communication Rights in the Information Society
(CRIS).
Dr
George Papadatos
Minister Plenipotentiary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Dept of International Organizations, Athens, Greece
Dr. Papadatos holds a Law Degree form the University of Athens a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Utah,USA and a PhD in Economics from Virginia Polytechic Institute and State University, USA.
He taught Economics at University level for seven years before joining the Greek Foreign Service.
Dr. Papadatos spent a number of years at the Greek Mission in the UN, New York where he was head of delegation in the Second Committee of the General Assembly. He has held a number of elected positions the most signficant being Chair of the Second Committee and as Vice President of
Ecosoc. He has participated actively in the preparation of world conferences such as the Population Conference held in Cairo, the Women's Conference held in Beijing and the WSIS Geneva and Tunis Summits.
Dr. Papadatos served as the Rapporteur of all the PrepComs of the WSIS second phase and was also elected Rapporteur of the Tunis Summit.
Adam Peake works at the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), a research institute located in Tokyo. His interests are the intersection of public policy and the Internet, and promoting information and communication technologies in society. At GLOCOM he works on projects related to telecommunications and broadband policy, network and information security and follow-up activities for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Mr Peake participated in the G8 DOT Force where GLOCOM was the Japanese NPO representative. He has co-led GLOCOM’s work on WSIS, including GLOCOM’s role as facilitator of NGO/Civil Society participation in the Asia and Pacific Regional WSIS Conference, January 2003, and WSIS Thematic meeting “Tokyo Ubiquitous Network Conference” in May 2005. He has been a coordinator of the WSIS Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus since the Geneva Summit and is a member of the Public Interest Registry (.ORG) Advisory Council and Associate Chair of ICANN’s 2006 Nominating Committee.
Mr Vladimir Radunović
Coordinator, Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme, DiploFoundation
Vladimir Radunović completed Diplo’s online programme in “Internet Governance” in 2003, and joined Diplo in 2004 as the Coordinator of the Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme. He is also a member of the IG Portal Team, in charge of overall coordination of portal activities. He has a background in Electrical Engineering and has worked as an IT administrator with the Alternative Academic Educational Network and “B92” Media House’s B92.net department. He has been a Board Member of the European Students’ Association AEGEE Belgrade, involved in coordinating several conferences and projects, as well as the European youth initiative “Youth for South-Eastern Europe.” He has been a member of the Student Union of Serbia from 1998, an activist with OTPOR! (1998 - 2000), and a Member of the University Council of the University of Belgrade, twice delegated as a student representative.
Dr Roberta
Ritson
External Relations Officer, Government, Civil Society and Private Sector Relations, World Health Organization
Roberta Ritson is a graduate in modern languages from University College, London, with a Master’s degree in European literature, a postgraduate diploma in education, and a Ph.D. in International Relations. Following a short career with the British diplomatic service, she taught at a number of national and international schools in Europe before joining the United Nations Office in Geneva. Since 1984 she has worked for the World Health Organization in Geneva, both on policy development and on training courses and training materials for the health sector in Member States. Most recently she has served as External Relations Officer, building relations between WHO and its partners in government, academia, private enterprise and civil society.
Mr Waudo
Siganga
National Chairman, Computer Society of Kenya
Waudo Siganga is the National Chairman of the Computer Society of Kenya, a non-governmental, not-for-profit association championing ICT Public Policy issues in Kenya. He is also a Steering Committee member of the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA). He has worked in the ICT field for more than 20 years, mainly in the public policy area. In 2004 Mr Siganga was appointed by the Secretary General of the UN to the UN Working Group on Internet Governance. Mr Siganga has spoken widely, including at the 2004 ASOCIO Summit held in Colombo, Sri Lanka and at the WTO Friends of Computer Services meetings held in Geneva in September 2005.
Mr
David Souter
Association for Progressive Communication (APC)
David Souter has been managing director of
ICT Development Associates ltd and visiting professor in communications management at the University of
Strathclyde, Scotland, since 2003. He works mainly at the interface of ICT
and development policy with a variety of international and civil society
organisations and the private sector. He was coordinator of the Louder
Voices project which assessed developing country participation in
international ICT decision-making for the DOT Force in 2002, and is
currently reviewing developing country and civil society participation in
WSIS for APC. From 1995 to 2003, he was chief executive of the Commonwealth
Telecommunications Organisation.
Ms Theresa
Swinehart
General Manager, Global Partnerships, ICANN
Theresa Swinehart joined ICANN in 2001 as Counsel for International Legal Affairs, where her work involved ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee, country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs), and other global coordination activities. In February 2004, she was appointed General Manager, Global Partnerships at ICANN. In this capacity, she leads ICANN’s efforts in globally coordinating ICANN’s planning activities and work with regional communities. Ms Swinehart continues to lead ICANN’s outreach activities, building relationships with interested participants and regional organisations (both in the private sector and governmental organisations). She is also in the process of concluding her work with the ccNSO launching group. Prior to joining ICANN, Ms Swinehart was Director for Global E-Commerce at MCI, responsible for international issues relating to e-commerce, such as data protection, ISP liability, and monitoring emerging technical areas such as ENUM (telephone numbering on the Internet). She also actively participated in the global Internet community’s discussions that led to the 1998 transition of the Domain Name System to private sector management and the establishment of ICANN, and served as a North American representative on the ICANN Domain Name Supporting Organization’s Names Council from 1999-2001.
Dr Alex Sceberras
Trigona
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta
Alex Sceberras Trigona is a faculty member and Senior Fellow of DiploFoundation, and has been organising courses simulating international negotiations—bilateral and multilateral—at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, University of Malta, since 1991. Dr Trigona served as Malta’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1981-1987. He negotiated Malta’s Neutrality Agreements. He lobbied for, won and managed Malta’s first ever seat on the United Nations Security Council for 1983-1984. His law doctorate was awarded on the basis of a seminal thesis “Constitutional Change and the Maltese Constitution.” Fundamental constitutional changes in 1974 followed this thesis in both manner and substance.
Paul Wilson is the Director General of APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific, responsible for management of IP addresses throughout that region. Over seven years, Mr Wilson has overseen development of APNIC into a respected institution of the Asia Pacific community. As a leader within this community, he has attended many meetings of Internet, government, and regional organisations, and made many presentations on APNIC and Internet matters. Mr Wilson has been involved with Internet networking for over 15 years. In 1990, he helped to establish the first private ISP in Australia, as Technical Director and later CEO. Over eight years, he worked on projects for UN and other development agencies, supporting Internet development projects in many countries.
