 Abdunuur is a Project Ambassador with One World Youth Project, and Founder and Managing Director of the Perfect Youth Group. He is also Community Centre Coordinator at the Dr. Herman Wrice Youth Empowerment Village. In 2001, he was selected as a peer educator on HIV/AIDS and later elected as General Secretary in high school. He spearheads initiatives to raise awareness of the MDGs among communities in Tanzania and is youth adviser of an HIV/AIDS campaign in Arusha, Tanzania. |
 Adesuwa Ewere Akinboro is the eLearning programme manager at the African Medical and Research Foundation. She has worked with several organizations including multinationals such as Accenture, and Procter and Gamble. She has experience in eLearning implementation and brings a unique blend of skills in project management, human performance and technology consulting. |
 Mohamed Atani is the technical officer for the Online Access to Research in the Environment, a partnership between UNEP, the universities of Yale and Cornell, FAO, WHO and several leading publishers (Elsevier, STM, Blackwell, CABI, and Kluwer). |
 Anne Aubert works in the Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division in the FAO. She also manages the Web Guide, the official reference in FAO for Web guidelines, procedures and policies. |
 Ashima Bhardwaj is vice president One World Youth Project, Asia Region. With a background in environmental, health, and disability issues, she has worked on initiatives relating to drug consumption among urban youth, disability, and the environment. She is currently organizing the first One World Asia Youth Summit in 2008. |
 Jonathan Campaigne, has over the past 20 years, served as chairman of PRIDE AFRICA, one of the largest microfinance networks in East and Southern Africa. Since 2003, he has focused on the development of the supply chain management platform, DrumNet. |
Soon-hong Choi is the newly appointed assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, responsible for Information Technology. He has 30 years of technical and management experience in the public and private sectors. He served as head of Information Technology Services at the International Monetary Fund from 2004 to February 2007. |
Anna Downie supports evaluation and learning at the Institute of Development Studies based in the United Kingdom. Her focus is knowledge services and sharing learning with others involved with information work for international development. |
 Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed Eisa is chairman of Gedaref Digital City Organization. Prior to this he was Sudan’s minister of agriculture and was a Member of Parliament, a member of the Board of Directors of Al-sharg and Gedaref University and of an Agricultural and Farmer Bank. |
 Christopher Fabian leads the Innovation Unit in UNICEF’s New York Headquarters Division of Communication. He has been involved in developing partnerships to extend the reach and capabilities of UNICEF’s youth communication. The Unit will now work to connect young people through mobile phones, radios, televisions and other technologies which do not require an internet connection or a computer. |
 Catherine Fischer works at the Institute of Development Studies. Her main interest is supporting learning between organizations which, like IDS Knowledge Services, are playing an information intermediary role within international development. |
 David Galipeau, a former UNAIDS Web Manager and Global Head of eCommunications for a large Swiss pharmaceutical, is setting up a non-profit online social knowledge sharing group called eighty20.org. In the 90s, he founded an Internet media company in Germany that led to the creation of a magazine publishing and TV production company. |
 Julie Gichuru has years of experience in radio, print and television that has proved to be invaluable in her position with Kenya’s leading media house, the Nation Media Group, as current affairs editor of its television station, NTV. She is a news anchor and hosts, On the Spot, a one-on-one hard-hitting talk show. In October 2007, Julie was featured as one of the most influential women in ICT in ICT Village magazine. She will interview the panel of experts at the plenary. |
 Golam Monowar Kamal is the information management adviser for UN-HABITAT in Pakistan. He specializes in geospatial information technology in innovative application development; using cutting age technology including the Internet, mobile phones and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) for monitoring and tracking activities of development projects and post disaster information coordination. |
 Consolata Kabonesa is senior lecturer and coordinator of Gender and Technology Project, the Department of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University, Uganda. |
 Eddah Kaguthi works with the Environmental Education and Training Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her main interests are in development communication, project evaluation and capacity building for sustainable development. |
 Gajanan Kasbekar is Vice President of Tata Interactive, Corporate Solutions (North America). He is an expert on e-learning and training solutions. He has also worked with Kelloggs and Colgate. |
 Emdad Khan is the founder and CEO of InternetSpeech and inventor of Voice Internet. Khan holds 14 patents, has published many papers and is a frequent speaker at various industry trade shows and conferences. |
 Christian Kreutz is a knowledge management and communication specialist at the German Technical Cooperation department Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). He on communication technologies for development. |
 Nynke Kruiderink is an Officer Knowledge Sharing/Online Communications at the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD). She is a Political Scientist specialized in the fields knowledge management and e-learning, in a development context. Currently at IICD, she is responsible for coordinating IICDs knowledge and information management strategy, managing the Dgroups portfolio, and co-managing a variety of online knowledge sharing initiatives. |
 Victor Kyalo manages the Kenya ICT Board Transmission Control Internet Protocol Programme. He is also an Executive Director of KENET working on education communication networks. |
| Richard Maciver serves with the secretariat of the UN Chief Executives Board in Geneva. He is the ICT liaison in Geneva, Webmaster, and ICT Specialist focusing on ICT network projects and inter-agency website projects. Since last year, he has been Coordinator of the Web4Dev community. |
 James McNulty is a website manager for the International Monetary Fund. He previously worked for the UK Department for International Development. Key areas: communications planning, editorial and social media. |
 Elide Mwanri is the Head of the Tanzania Social Economic Database unit at the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics. |
 Amos Nungu is an Assistant Lecturer at Dar Es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT). A PhD candidate at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, he is a Project Manager of Information and Communication Technology for Rural Development. |
 Shem Ochuodho has coordinated and led ICT projects in over 30 African countries. He won the Kenya Community Abroad 2006/07 Excellence Award for his extraordinary role in pioneering Internet and Information and Communication Technologies in Kenya, Rwanda and Sub-Sahara Africa. He also holds the 2005 AfricaOnline Industry Pioneer’s Award. He is presently a Grand Jury Member of the World Summit Award and Chairman of the African Regional Centre for Computing. |
 Bjorn Pehrson is a professor and head of the Telecommunication Systems Laboratory at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He directs research and post-graduate education integrating development and capacity building in the area of sustainable broadband provisioning in rural and other under-served areas. |
 Stephen K. Roberts is UNESCO's Web Coordinator. He has vast experience with corporate websites including in the private telecommunications sector. He has created a web portal to bring together the numerous UNESCO websites, and coordinates the organization's six-language portal and website which features The UNESCO Courier online magazine covering content from UNESCO's extensive field network. Stephen has given numerous training sessions on web standards, writing for the web and managing web content. |
 Roxanna Samii is the Manager of Web, Knowledge and Distribution services at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Her main interests are ICT for Development and Knowledge Management for Development. |
 Sharad Sapra is Director of UNICEF’s Communications Division in New York. He has served as UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan and Iran, Chief of Operations in Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) programme in Nairobi, Kenya. A medical doctor, he was also Coordinator of the Afghanistan Back-to-School Programme. |
 Christine Sedky is coordinator of the World Bank's Webby Award-winning website for young people, Youthink! She brings her passion for international development to the World Bank as a dual American and Egyptian citizen struck by the differences between the developed and developing worlds |
 Aman Kumar Singh is the Chief Executive Officer of CHhattigsarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society (CHIPS). CHIPS is a Government organization created to propel growth of Information Technology (IT) in the Chhattisgarh, India. |
 Juerg Staudenmann, a Water Governance Advisor and Communities of Practice Facilitator, has led development of WaterWiki and other innovative web-based knowledge management projects supporting development practitioners in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
 Patricia Sudi isCountry Site Facilitator for TakingITGlobal Kenya, encouraging use of information technology by youth for networking, sharing ideas and accessing opportunities locally and globally. She won the Global Young Social Entrepreneurs’ Competition to participate in the GK3 Forum to be held in Kuala Lumpur from the 11-13 December 2007. |
 Adrian Wooster of Community Broadband Network (CBN) specialises in next generation broadband strategy and architecture. In 2004 he formed Great Technology Company (GTC) to focus on innovative technology concepts for next generation infrastructures and novel community-led technology projects from concept to delivery. |
 Marco Zennaro is a researcher at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy where he is part of the Aeronomy and Radio Propagation Laboratory and of the Science Dissemination Unit. |
 Hubert Zirimwabagabo is a Project Ambassador with the One World Youth Project and a medical student at National University of Rwanda. He is also Coordinator of the RwanDAnmark partnership between Rwandan and Danish medical students. |
