Raúl Zambrano - PNUD

Raul Zambrano is a Senior ICT Policy Advisor for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). For the last 18 years. he has supported the deployment and use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in over 75 developing countries to foster development. He has currently focusing on e-governance policies and programmes with a focus on service delivery for the poor and e-participation. He has also supported the usee of Free/Open Source Software in developing countries since 1995.

Kafui Amenu Prebbie - OneVlllageFoundation - www.kafui.com

Kafui Amenu Prebbie has a long history of activism in ICTs for Development in Ghana as well as Africa. He also co-founded the African Youth Initiative which was later supported by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to be the African Youth ICT4D Network. He is also the Country Director of oneVillage Foundaton-Ghana. His focus areas include Linux/Open Source and ICTs for Development (ICT4D) especially in the areas Education, Health, and Peace Building.

Vivek Vaidyanattian - IT tor Change - www.itforchange.com

IT for Change is a non protit organisation looking at how new age Information and Communication Technologies(ICTs) can be made relevant to marginalised communities. My work profile at ITfC primarily involves exploring convergences between technology and traditional development domains (health, education etc) in a way which allows for citizen centric participation and decentralised governance. A part of my work also involves working on issues of Internet Governance.

Daniel Pimienta - Funredes - www.funredes.org

Member of the Gaid Champions, of the Social Digital Solider Council and of the Executive Council of the MAYAA Network. In 2003, he was nominated for the World Technology Award for Ethics and Innovation in Technology and received, in 2008. the IFIP WG9.2 Namur Award for the sum of his actions for a holistic vision of the Social Impact of the ICT. Actually, Daniel is director of FUNREDES.

Stéphanie Lucien-Brun - Handicap International - http://handicap-icom.asso.fr

Works since september 2001 in icom's centre, a project of the French Program of Handicap International. Involved in the development of a network of actors of "Access for All to ICT's" in the Lyon area. Member of the board of CREATIF, national network of key players in "Access for All to ICT's" initiatives. In 2001 was in charge of the Indian Ocean ICT's monitor, linked to the regional council. Worked from 1993 to 2000 for NGO's as project leader (Blakans. Middle-East, Great Lakes region,..).

María del Mar Negreiro - Union Europea Lisbon Strategy - www.ec.europa.eu

She works as a policy maker in the Information Society and Media Directorate General (DG INFSO) in the unit responsible for policy and coordination, the "Lisbon Strategy and i2010". In addition Mar is project officer responsible for studies related to the digital divide, einclusion and ICT for public services. She is also involved in the preparation of the i2010 Annual Report of the Information Society. Currently Mar is also responsible for a major Review report on digital literacy expected by the end of 2008.

Raoul Weiler - Club Of Rome - www.clubofrome.org

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. Among his activities, he is very involved to deal with the sustainable development which a planetary challenge and the use of Low-cost ICT to bridge the Digital Divide. 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.

Jérôme Combaz - Charte pour linclusion Numérique/Greta du Velay - http://crivelay.greta.fr

Computer science, works for the CRI - Greta du Velay, a public vocational training organisation and research department. He is involved in several projects as web developer, webmaster, network and server administrator, computing advisor. He does a permanent technology watch on various topics like common and future standards, eLearning tools and practices, free software developments and communites. He is also specialised in web accessibility and e-inclusion practices

Berta Maure Rubio - MITYC - www.planavanza.es

Technical Officer Corps of Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection. Since 2004, head of the Area of Awareness and Dissemination of the Information Society. Among the actions she is working on, and since the year 2006, within the Plan AVANZA, Berta is leading the calls for non-profit organizations grants aimed at promoting the Information Society in the Subprogram AVANZA CIUDADANIA. Moreover, she represents Spain in the "e-inclusion" group of the European Union.

Belén Perales - RSC IBM - www.ibm.com.es

IBM was born in the twenties in the United States by the hand of Thomas Watson. Since its beginning, this company developed the basis of what we know today as the Corporative Social Responsibility. In Spain, this famous ICT Company work, for more than 10 years, on Social Action programs. Belen Perales is the Director of RSC for IBM in Spain.

José Manuel García - RSC Sun MicroSystems - www.sun.com

Jose Manuel García Prieto studied Law and History, and work in the Management Sphere and execute responsabilities in the Universidad de Alcala (Social Advisor and Claustro Secretary). Through the management of his own service and audit company, in 2003, began to work in the Corporative Social Responsibility department of the Spanish delegation of Sun Microsystems, which is now the director.

Javier de la Nava - BBVA - www.bbva.com

Served as the Responsible of the Social Action for BBVA responsibilities and corporative reputation, he is in charge of the relatons with ihe NPO and the coordination of work lines such as corporative volunteerism, disability, attention and sponsoring of marginalised collectives. Economist and Master in International Relations, International Business and European lnstitutions.

Francisco Ortiz - Ahiciet - www.ahiciet.net

Specialized in the social study and promotion of the ICT, a field in which he has been a pioneer in Spain through the Foundation Fundesco. Author of numerous publications, he has given classes of TeleWork in over than 12 universities in Spain and Latin America. He served as President of the Spanish Association of Telecentres and he is chairman of the European Forum on TeleWork and the Ibero-American Association of TeleWork.

Julio Andrade - Concejal delegado de Participación Ciudadana del Ayuntamiento de Málaga - www.malaga.eu

Degree in English and master's degree in Management and Business Administration. In 1997, he entered in the municipality of Malaga. Over the past four years, he has been the Director of the "Area de Participación Ciudadana, dependiente de Alcaldia", and has worked in this area for the Spanish Federation of Municipalities (FEMP) and the Andalusian Federation of Municipalities (FAMP). He has also worked in advisory groups of the European Council.

Enrique Varela - Consultor - www.enriquevarela.com

Director of Accessible Technologies and R&D of the Foundation ONCE for the social cooperation and integration of people with disabilities. He is working too as an specialised advisor in development through Internet Technologies, accessibility and technological environments. He is member of the executive committee of the W3C and of the executive committee of the WAI. He had coordinated various publications on disability and technology, and he is responsible of the organisation DRT4LL.

Erick Iriarte - Alfa-Redi - www.alfa-redi.org - www.alfa-redi.org

Director of Alfa-Redi, Web editor of the LatinoamerICANN project on the Internet Gobernance in Latin America, Member of the Internet Governance Forum. Founding member of the Cibertribunal Perunao and of the Asociacion Peruana de Derecho Informatico. Director of AR:RDI (Alfa-Redi: Informatic Law Review). He is too coordinator of the Meta 25 of the Plan Elac 2007. Member of the Comité Asesor International of the ccTLD .pr and of the ccTLD .NI. Principal Associate of Iriarte & Asociados.

Susana Finquelievich - Links - www.links.org.ar

She is Researcher of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET and Director of the Research Program on the Information Society in the Research Institute Gino Germani. University of Buenos Aires. President of LINKS, Civil Association for the Development of the Information Society. She published eleven books on various aspects on the Information Society, with an emphasis on the Socio-Digital Inclusion.