8.1.1. Bruce Girard

Community-based Networks and Innovative Technologies: New models to serve and empower the poor, (with Seán Ó Siochrú), UNDP, New York, 2005. Available online at www.propoor-ict.net/

?Microtelcos in Latin America and the Caribbean?, (with Hernan Galperin) in Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives, DIRSI, Peru, 2005. Available online at: http://www.dirsi.net/espanol/files/05-Galperin-Girard_23nov.pdf

Assessing Communication Rights: A handbook, CRIS Campaign, 2005. Available online at: http://crisinfo.org/pdf/ggpen.pdf

Communicating in the Information Society, (with Seán Ó Siochrú), UNRISD, Geneva, 2003. Available online at:
http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(search)/5DCA28E932BB8CFDC1256E240029A075?
Opendocument&highlight=2,communicating,in,the,information,society&fromsearch=yes&
query=Communicating+in+the+Information+Society

The One to Watch: Radio, New ICTs and Interactivity (Ed), FAO, Rome, Italy, 2003. Available online at www.comunica.org/1-2-watch. On media, ICTs and migration see the chapters Blending Old and New Technologies: Mexico?s indigenous radio service messages http://comunica.org/1-2-watch/pdf/chapter13.pdfand Callos and Guatitas: Radio and migration in Ecuador and Spain http://comunica.org/1-2-watch/pdf/chapter14.pdf

Global Media Governance, (with Seán Ó Siochrú and Amy Mahan), Rowman and Littlefield, USA, Oxford, 2002
?Information Wants to be Free?, with Seán Ó Siochrú. Contribution to Visions of the Information Society, ITU, Geneva, 2003. Available online at: http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/visions/free/index.html

8.1.2 Subbiah Arunachalam

Thorsteinsdóttir, H,  Daar, A.S, Singer, P.A,  Archambault, E,  and Arunachalam, S (2006) Health biotechnology publishing takes-off in developing countries, International  Journal of  Biotechnology,  8  (1/2), pp. 23-42. Arunachalam, Subbiah (2005) Public access to the Internet, in Word Matters: Multicultural perspectives on information societies. C & F Editions. Suber, P and Arunachalam, S (2005) Open Access to Science in the Developing World, World-InformationCity, October 17, 2005. (World-InformationCity is the print newspaper distributed to delegates at the November 2005 meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis. Leslie Chan, Barbara Kirsop and Subbiah Arunachalam, 2005. ?Open access archiving: The fast track to building research capacity in developing countries,? Science and Development Network (SciDevNet), at http://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/4415/1/Open_Access_Archiving.pdf, accessed 1 January 2006. Arunachalam, Subbiah (2005) Making Knowledge Work for the Rural Poor. Delivered at Berlin 3 Open Access : Progress in Implementing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Southampton (UK). Presentation.

Nambi, A.Arivudai and Arunachalam, Subbiah (2005) The Second MSSRF South - South Exchange Travelling Workshop: 30 October - 6 November 2003, Pondicherry & Tamil Nadu, India.

Chapman, Robert and Arunachalam, Subbiah and Sharma, Geetha (2005) The Third MSSRF South - South Exchange Travelling Workshop: 15-22 October 2004 Tamil Nadu & Pondicherry, India.
Arunachalam, S. Open access and the developing world (2004) National  Medical Journal of India 17 (6), pp. 289-191.,

Senthilkumaran, S. and Arunachalalm, S. ?Harvesting Networks.? Times Agriculture Journal. Jan-Feb 2004. p. 16-19.

Arunachalam, S.Information and communication technologies and poverty alleviation(2004) Current Science 87 (7), pp. 960-966.

Arunachalam, S.Workshops on open access in India(2004) Current Science 86 (12), pp. 1589-1590.

Gupta, R.P., Arunachalam, S. Science in India (2004) Current Science 86 (9), pp. 1195-1198.

Arunachalam, S.Workshops on open access (2004) Current Science 86 (7), p. 892.

Arunachalam, S.On publication indicators (2004) Current Science 6 (5), pp. 629-632.

Arunachalam, S.Use of SCI-based publication counts (2003) Current Science 85 (10), pp. 1391-1392.

Arunachalam, S. Information for research in developing countries - Information technology, a friend or foe?(2003)
International Information and Library Review 35 (2-4), pp. 133-147.

Arunachalam, S. Information for Research in Developing Countries: Information Technology - Friend or Foe?(2003) Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science 29 (5), p. 16.

Arunachalam, S. Science in India - On the comments of Gupta and Garg (2003) Current Science 84 (3), p. 259.

Arunachalam, S., Gunasekaran, S.Production of doctorates in selected Asian countries (2003) Current Science 84 (1), p. 9.

Arunachalam, Subbiah and Rino, S.I.  Mapping new biology research in India and China: an analysis of publications, citations and international collaboration, ISSI Conference, China, 25th Aug,2003.

Arunachalam, S.The role of leadership and innovative management in building rural knowledge centers to reach the "Unreached" (2002) Science and Technology Libraries 23 (2-3), pp. 17-24.

Arunachalam, S.Reaching the unreached: How can we use information and communication technologies to empower the rural poor in the developing world through enhanced access to relevant information?

(2002) Journal of Information Science 28 (6), pp. 513-522.

Arunachalam, S., Gunasekaran, S.Diabetes research in India and China today: From literature-based mapping to health-
care policy (2002) Current Science 82 (9), pp. 1086-1097.

Arunachalam, S., Gunasekaran, S. Tuberculosis research in India and China: From bibliometrics to research policy(2002)
Current Science 82 (8), pp. 933-947.

Arunachalam, S. The Global Research Village: A view from the Periphery(2002) IDRC Report.

Arunachalam, S. Reaching the Unreached: How Can We Use ICTs to Empower the Rural Poor in the Developing World through Enhanced Access to Relevant Information?. (2002) In Proceedings 68th IFLA Council and General, pages pp. 1-11, Glasgow.

Arunachalam, Subbiah (2002) Quality of Science and Science Journals in India. Current Science 93(3), pp. 195-196.

Arunachalam, Subbiah (2002) Is Mathematics Research in India on the Decline?. Current Science 83(4), pp. 353-354.

Arunachalam, Subbiah (2002) Is science in India on the decline?. Current Science 83(2), pp. 107-108.

Arunachalam, Subbiah (2002) Correspondence on "Diabetes Research in India" . Current Science 83(4), pp. 355-356.

Arunachalam, Subbiah (2002) China Promotes Traditional Medicine. In Current Science, 83(4) pages pp. 358-358.

Arunachalam, S and Gunasekaran, S. Cardiovascular Research in India and China in the 1990s. (2001) 8th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. July 16-20, 2001.

Arunachalam, Subbiah and Umarani, K. Status of Mathematics Research in India in 1990 and 1994: An Analysis based on MathSci (2001)Information Today & Tomorrow, 20 (4), pp.23-p.30.
Arunachalam, Subbiah and Rino, S.I.  Life Sciences Research in India:A Profile based on BIOSIS 1998 (2001) Information Today & Tomorrow 20 (4), pp.18-p.22
Arunachalam, Subbiah and Rino, S.I (2001) Life sciences research in India: a profile based on Biosis 1998. Other. NISSAT, New Delhi, India.
Arunachalam, Subbiah  Mapping life sciences research in India: A profile based on BIOSIS 1992-1994. (1999) Current Science 76(9) pp. 1191-1203.
 

8.2 Emerging Markets

8.2.1  Richard Gerster

Publications (see www.gersterconsulting.ch)
Numerous books and articles on development policy issues, such as

Risks of General Budget Support, Presentation at the International Symposium on General Budget Support in Berne, 29 June 2006

Learning from Experience with Performance Assessment Frameworks (PAFs) for General Budget Support, synthesis report, Oxford/Berne 2005 (together with Andrew Lawson and David Hoole)

Perfect Partners? The performance of Programme aid Partners in Mozambique 2004, G-17/GOM, Maputo 2005 (together with Tony Killick and Carlos Castel-Branco)

New Sources of Development Financing: An SDC Working Paper, Berne March 2005 (together with Walter Hofer and Roland Jenni)

Up-scaling Pro-Poor ICT Policies and Practices. A Review of Experience in Low Income Countries of Asia and Africa, SDC/MSSRF 2005 (together with Sonja Zimmermann)

Mondialisation et équité/Globalisierung und Gerechtigkeit (?Globalisation and Equity?, in French & German), 2. völlig revidierte Auflage, lep / hep-Verlage, Lausanne / Bern 2005

Programme Aid Partners? Performance Assessment (PAPPA) in Mozambique: Baseline Survey on PAP Performance 2003, G-15/GOM, Maputo 2004 (together with Alan Harding)

Mozambique: Learning Assessment of Joint Review 2004, Final Report for the G-15 & the GOM, June 2004 (together with Alan Harding)

Sri Lanka: An independent assessment of the Comprehensive Social Development Programme of the Sarvodaya Movement, Report to Sarvodaya and Novartis Foundation, December 2003

Diminishing the Digital Divide in Switzerland. ICT-Policies, Practices and Lessons Learnt, SDC November 2003 (together with Andrea Haag)

ICTs and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa. A Learning Study (Synthesis) (together with Sonja Zimmermann) on behalf of CIDA, DFID, DGIS, SDC, Building Digital Opportunities Programme, Den Haag (IICD) October 2003

Information and Communication Technologies for Poverty Reduction? Discussion Paper, SDC March 2003 (together with Sonja Zimmermann)

SDC?s Bilateral Engagement in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Process (together with Tony German, Judith Randel, Sonja Zimmermann), Evaluation Report 2003/1, SDC, Berne August 2003
People before Patents. The Success Story of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry, in: Medicus Mundi Schweiz, Bulletin Nr. 84, April 2002, pp. 43 - 49

Convention on Biological Diversity: Exploring the Creation of a Mediation Mechanism (together with Chaytor Beatrice and Herzog Theresa), in: Journal of World Intellectual Property, April 2002,  pp. 157 - 180
Patents and Development. Lessons Learnt from the Economic History of Switzerland, Third World Network, Penang/Malaysia 2001

Alternative Approaches to Poverty Reduction Strategies. A Review of the World Bank Compared to Other Donors, SDC Working Paper, Berne 2000 
Switzerland as a Developing Country, Swiss Coalition News, Berne February 1998


8.2.2   Radhika Lal

8.2.3. Paul Cunningham

Building the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies
Paul Cunningham, Miriam Cunningham, & Peter Fatelnig (Eds),
IOS Press, 2003 Amsterdam
ISBN: 1-58603-379-4

eAdoption and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies
Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds)
IOS Press, 2004 Amsterdam
ISBN: 1-58603-470-7

Innovation and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies
Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds)
IOS Press, 2005 Amsterdam
ISBN: 1-58603-563-0

Exploiting the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies
Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds)
IOS Press, 2006 Amsterdam
ISBN: 1-58603-682-3

8.3 Emerging Technologies

8.3.1 François Bar

- http://pubs.fbar.net/
- Benkler's "The Wealth of Networks"
- Castells' "The Rise of the Network Society"
- (many PDFs available from the above url)

8.3.2 Laszlo Karlavics

1. Publications in related fields
A community IT-development byte
    In: Beyond Tunis: Flightplan (Global Knowledge Partnership, 2006 pp. 27-28

The Information (Society) Race
    In: Perspectives and Policies on ICT in Society Ed By Berleur, Jacques ? Avgerou, Chrisanthi Springer (IFIP),
    2005 pp. 99-120
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-25588-5_8

The Hungarian Information Society in the Enlarged Europe
    In: Ungarn in der Europaischen Union 2004 (Begegnungen. Schriftenreihe des Europa Institutes Budapest)
    Übersetzt von Vera Gáthy
    Europa Institut, Budapest, pp. 147-160. (Pintér Róberttel)

Designing a Discipline: Social Informatics Revisited
    In: Jose V. Carrasquero et al. (eds): Informatics and Society PISTA Proceedings Vol. I. IIS, 2004 pp. 317-321.

From Individuals to the Global Community: the Hidden Contradiction of the Cultural History of Classification and the Latest Browsing Technologies
    In: The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference 2003. Proceedings of the Tracks Vol. II. pp 39-45.

Two models and six types of Telecentres: a typological experiment
    In: ProLISSA (Proceedings of the second biennial DISSAnet Conference Eds: Bothma,
    Theo ? Kaniki, Andrew Infuse, Pretoria, 2002 327 ? 332.o. (with Szilárd, Molnár)

The Security of Information Society as a Global Biocultural System
    In: Human Choice and Computers. Issues of Choice and Quality of Life
    in the Information Society Ed. by Klaus Brunnstein ? Jacques Berleur Kluwer 2002, 147-162.o.

"Information society" in Eastern Europe? Chances, possibilities, tasks and programs
    East European Quarterly 34: (4) 509-522 Winter 2000 (with Magyar, B.)

Information Society Visions: from the early utopies to the adequate government-level strategic planning methods
    In: Informatisatisation et anticipations. Information Society:
    Looking ahead Proceedings, Strasbourg, France, 1998 June 10-12 pp. 63-74.

2. Project proposal
New generation knowledge producing communities: hybridization of science and education into Human Grids (pdf attached)

3. Other essential references
    - Indigenous Knowledge Inquiries. A Methodological Manual for Development
      (Paul Sillitoe, Peter Dixon And Julian Barr) ITDG Publishing, 2005
    - Basics for Social Software:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software

8.3.3 Jovan Kurbalija

- your publications, papers, web links etc,
- Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme: http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig/IGCBP/default.asp
- other references that you consider essential for our work
- pdfs: of course we welcome pdf copies and/or hard copies of your publications






8.4 Biographies of the Participants of the Oxford Session

Contributors
Compilation by Helena Loh

Subbiah Arunachalam Arun is an information scientist based in Chennai, South India. He has been associated with Indian academic and scholarly communities for over three decades and has been, among other things, a science writer, a chemistry researcher, an information science teacher, a librarian in a national laboratory, a scientometricist, the executive secretary of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Arun is widely published, serves on the editorial boards of six refereed international journals, and is a frequently invited speaker to international conferences. He is,

among others, an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), a Member of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), a Trustee of the Electronic Publishing  Trust, a Member of the Governing Board of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, an Executive Committee member of the Global Knowledge Partnership, and on the international advisory board member of the International Institute for Communication and Development, The Hague.

A volunteer and distinguished fellow with the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in Chennai since April 1996, his research interests include science on the periphery, scientometrics, information access, and the application of information and communication technologies in development and poverty reduction programmes. At MSSRF, his team works at grassroots level to see how ICT-enabled development programmes can make a difference to the lives of the rural poor. Arun also advocates open access archiving and the adoption of this practice among the research community in developing countries.

http://www.codataweb.org/UNESCOmtg/bio-arun.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/infopoverty/biog.htm
http://technologysource.org/author/subbiah_arunachalam/

Subbiah Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Third Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600 113 Tamil Nadu, India
T: +91 44 22542791, 22541129 F: +91 44 22541319 E: arun@mssref.ac.in

More information on Arun and his work may be found at www.mssrf.org

François Bar François is Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California (USC), in Los Angeles where he also is a Senior Fellow. He directs the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication. His research interests include comparative telecommunication policy, as well as economic, strategic and social dimensions of computer networking, new media and the Internet. François is published in books of collected studies, in policy reports, and in journals such as Information Technologies and International Development, Telecommunications Policy, The Information Society, Organization Science, Infrastructure

Economics and Policy, Communications & Strategies, Réseaux, and the International Journal of Technology Management.

At present, he serves on the advisory boards of the non-profit Compumentor, and start-ups Clickability and Polaris Wireless. He has held faculty positions at Stanford University and at the University of California at San Diego. Since 1983, François has been a member of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) at UC Berkeley, where he previously served as programme director for research on telecommunications policy and information networking. He has also held visiting faculty appointments at the University of Toronto, the University of Paris-XIII, Théséus, and Eurécom.

Paul Cunningham As President and CEO of International Information Management Corporation Ltd (IIMC), Paul advises commercial and government clients on strategic technology adoption issues in the areas of eBusiness, eContent, eGovernment & eDemocracy and Knowledge Management. His work includes organising international technology research conferences, bringing together government, industry and research leaders from around the world to share knowledge and experience. Paul has also been responsible for the design and implementation of complex publishing systems for organisations, publications and events.

Clotilde Fonseca Clotilde Fonseca is a native of Costa Rica. She studied literature at the University of Costa Rica and Mass Communication at the University of Navarre in Spain. She obtained a Master in Public Administration with emphasis in technology and education from Harvard University, where she became a Luscius Littauer Fellow for academic leadership. She is Executive Director of the Omar Dengo Foundation (ODF) and has worked in the area of technology and education for over 18 years. Fonseca was founding director of the Costa Rican Educational Informatics Program, a joint ODF and

Richard Gerster Richard is a development economist and activist from Switzerland. He holds a PhD Econ from the University of St Gall (Switzerland). He was with Helvetas, the Swiss Association for Development and Cooperation from 1972 to 1981, and then until 1998, with AllianceSud, then Swiss Coalition of Development Organisations, first as Coordinator for Development Policy, and then as Executive Director. He was a member of the Advisory Committee on Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid to

the Swiss government from 1978 to 1994, and has been since 2000, a member of the Development Cooperation Advisory Council to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria.

Since 1998, Richard has been Director of Gerster Consulting, an independent consulting firm for public policy and international development. Some key areas he covers include pro-poor policies emphasizing Poverty Reduction Strategies; trade in particular WTO issues and fair trade; development cooperation with emphasis on programme aid and evaluation; and global public goods including information and communication.

Richard is the winner of several development policy awards. In 2002, his book ?Globalisation and Equity? won the Blue Planet Award as well as the Golden Slate Award for educational graphs. He has also written several other books and numerous articles on development policy issues for scientific journals and newspapers.

http://www.novartisfoundation.com/pdf/cv/cv_richard_gerster.pdf
http://www.gersterconsulting.ch/fs/fs_main.asp?kt=6&skt=19
http://www.i4donline.net/indiantelecentreforum/review/view-contents.asp?id=ITF06/ABS/165

Richard Gerster, Director, Gerster Consulting
Göldistrasse 1, CH-8805, Richterswil, Switzerland
T: 41 44 7848308 F: +41 44 7848317 E: richard.gerster@gersterconsulting.ch

For more information on Richard, visit http://www.novartisfoundation.com/pdf/cv/cv_richard_gerster.pdf,
http://www.gersterconsulting.ch/fs/fs_main.asp?kt=6&skt=19, and
http://www.i4donline.net/indiantelecentreforum/review/view-contents.asp?id=ITF06/ABS/165

Bruce Girard Bruce is the coordinator of Comunica, a network that researches and supports the use of new information and communication technologies by local and independent media in less developed countries to reinforce local initiatives for development and democracy. He is an acknowledged expert in community and local radio, and a founder of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC). His recent radio work has focused on the use of the Internet and other new ICTs through local radio in developing countries and on developing an e-learning course for community media managers.

Bruce founded the Agencia Informativa Púlsar, the world?s first Internet-based radio news agency, now based in Argentina, and has rganized various international seminars on broadcasting and the internet, including Converging Responsibility: Broadcasting and the Internet in Developing Countries, Kuala Lumpur in 1999, Mixed Media/Medios Enteros: Broadcasting and the Internet in Latin America and the Caribbean, Florida, USA, in 2000 and La Onda Rural: Radio, ICTs and Rural Development in Latin America in Ecuador in 2004. He is also centrally involved in the World Dialogue on Regulation for Network Economies, a joint project of the LIRNE Networks, the World Bank?s infoDev programme and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). This project seeks to facilitate the transformation of telecommunication regulation to provide both a foundation of support and a catalyst for development of network economies in developing and developed countries.

Bruce has consulted for national and international agencies such as the International Institute for Communication and Development, Radio Nederlands Training Centre, the World Bank and various United Nations agencies such as FAO, UNDP, and UNESCO on communication and development projects.

He was a founding member and spokesperson for the campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) and has written extensively on communication related themes. His book include Global Media Governance (with Seán Ó Siochrú and Amy Mahan), The One to Watch: Radio New ICTs and Interactivity, and Communicating in the Information Society www.comunica.org/bruce_girard.htm

world-information.org/wio/program/participants/1038590616

Bruce Girard , Coordinator, Comunica.org
Dr. Pablo de María 1036, Montevideo 11200, Uruguay
T: +598 2 4102979 M: +598 99 189652 E: bgirard@comunica.org
More on Bruce and his work may be found at www.comunica.org.

László Karvalics Currently an associate professor and Head of the Department of Information and Knowledge Management at Technical University Budapest, Laszlo teaches and carries out research on social impacts of information technology, comparative analysis of national information strategies, information history and education in the information age. A key person in the Hungarian Information Society strategy making process, and founding editor of the Hungarian language Information Society quarterly, he is also deeply involved in several European Union projects and events in terms of expertise in the field.

Laszlo has written books, studies and numerous articles on the dissemination of the "Information Society thinking" and Internet-culture. Among his best-selling books in Hungarian are: Introduction to Information History (Gondolat, 2004), Information, Society, History (Typotex, 2003), Searching of the Information Society (Aula, Budapest, 2001), Toothpick on the Net (Prím, Budapest, 2000), and Information Society (from technology to the human aspects) (Muszaki, 1995).

He holds an MA in History, Literature and Linguistics, PhD and a Hab. in History, ELTE, Budapest. Laszlo is also, at present, a Fulbright Research Fellow at George Washington University, Center of International Science and Technology Policy (CISTP).

http://www.ittk.hu/english/cvs/laszlo_karvalics_cv.pdf
http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/whoiswho/view_profile.cfm?contactid=8065http://americanhungarian.org/featured_member-Laszlo_Z_Karvalics.php

László Karvalics
Associate Professor and Head of Dept of Information and KM,
Technical University Budapest 46750 Southern Oaks Terrace, Sterling, VA 20164 USA
T: +1 703 4443172 E: zkl@itm.bme.hu

More on Laszlo and his work may be found at http://www.ittk.hu/english/cvs/laszlo_karvalics_cv.pdf,
http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/whoiswho/view_profile.cfm?contactid=8065,
http://americanhungarian.org/featured_member-Laszlo_Z_Karvalics.php

Jovan Kurbalija Jovan?s professional and academic background lies in diplomacy, international law and ICT. Since 1994, he has conceptualized and directed a course focusing on the impact of ICT/Internet on diplomacy. As part of this course, Jovan designed and runs a negotiation simulation exercise on Internet Governance; he also lectures on diplomacy and ICT/Internet, diplomatic privileges and immunities, and international law for diplomats. His research focuses on the impact of ICT/Internet on diplomacy, with emphasis on changes in the national and

international environment for diplomatic activities such as changes in national and international distribution of power, new items on diplomatic agendas including ICT policy and Internet Governance; and new tools for diplomatic activities such as hypertext systems for research and online negotiation tools.

Jovan is currently involved in research on Internet Governance, the emerging language of ICT diplomacy, and diplomatic aspects of the WSIS negotiations. He is widely published and has co-authored the Information Society Library, covering issues such as information security, online learning, and Internet governance. He is special advisor to the UN Internet Governance Forum.

www.itu.int/osg/spu/forum/intgov04/bios/kurbalija-bio.html
www.circleid.com/member/home/964/
www.diplomacy.edu/Edu/PGD/cv.htm

Jovan Kurbalija , Director, DiploFoundation
56 rue de Lausanne, CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland
T: +41 22 7410435 M: +41 79 7884226 E: jovank@diplomacy.edu

Further information on Jovan and his work may be found at www.circleid.com/member/home/964/,
www.itu.int/osg/spu/forum/intgov04/bios/kurbalija-bio.html; and
www.diplomacy.edu/Edu/PGD/cv.htm.

Radhika Lal Radhika is a senior policy advisor on ICT for poverty reduction and the MDGs with the Poverty Group in UNDP?s Bureau for Development Policy in New York. By training she is an economist with a specialization in political economy and trade issues. The focus of her work in UNDP is in integrated development approaches including the use of information and communication technologies to enhance development effectiveness & empowerment and identification of policy options to realize this potential. In the context of her work at UNDP, in addition to advising developing country governments and working with

partners on strategies and programmes relating to the role of ICT as an enabler of development, she has been active in global level fora such as the World Summit on the Information Society Geneva-Tunis, the G-8 DOT Force, the UN ICT Task Force and most recently in supporting the SG?s Task Force on Financial Mechanisms for ICTD that was facilitated by UNDP in the follow-up to the Geneva-phase of WSIS. Prior to working with UNDP, she undertook research, taught economics, and worked with a number of civil society organizations on issues relating to technology as well as economic policy and capacity development for advocacy.

Her recent publications include ?Development Divides and Digital Bridges: three reasons why ICT is key for achieving the MDGs" co-authored with Mr. Shoji Nishimoto, Assistant UNDP Administrator and Director, BDP for the Reference Report of the Commonwealth Ministers of Finance (2005); "Towards an Inclusive and Development-Rich Information Society: Linking Financing Issues and Development Agendas" in The World Summit on the Information Society: Moving from the Past into the Future edited by Daniel Stauffacher and Wolfgang Kleinwächter (2005); ?Using ICT for Reaching the Millennium Development Goals: Moving from Rhetoric to Action in ICT4D: Connecting People for a Better World (2003); ?National & Regional E-Development Strategies: A Blueprint for Action? and ?The Role of ICT in Enhancing the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals?, in The Role of ICT in Global Development; she is a co-author of Budgets as if People mattered: Democratizing Macroeconomic Policies (2000).

http://www.globalknowledge.org/ict4d/index.cfm?LineNbr=4&StartRow=46&menuid=99&parentid=62&searchtxtname=
http://www.undp.org/poverty/docs/CFMR_UNDP_ICTD.pdf
http://www.asiasource.org/asip/about.cfm#lal

Radhika Lal, Senior Policy Advisor, ICT for Poverty Reduction and MDGs, Poverty Group, Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme
304 East 45 th Street , Room 11104, New York, NY 10017, USA
T: +1 212 9065046 F: +1 212 9065313 E: radhika.lal@undp.org

For more information on Radhika and her work, visit http://www.undp.org/poverty/and
http://www.globalknowledge.org/ict4d/index.cfmLineNbr=4&StartRow=46&menuid=99&parentid=62&s

Wendy Schultz Wendy has over twenty years' international foresight experience in academic, government, and business organizations. Her research areas are diverse, ranging from telecommunications to justice and cross-cultural adjudication; from LNG and global natural gas markets to future submarine design; higher education to human habitation of space; the future of libraries to environmental management. She has worked in Japan, Croatia, Finland, the USA, and the UK, among other locales, and has

designed and edited environmental scanning databases for the UK Office of Science and Technology?s Horizon Scanning Centre, and the UK Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Wendy has given the keynote address at numerous conferences on future trends including those on technology, education, space and marine exploration, and information management. She has also run training workshops on foresight tools and techniques; horizon scanning for policy, planning and innovation; scenario building for enhanced creativity; and leadership and strategic foresight. She has completed a research paper on the future of philanthropy. Her other research interests include the future of microsensors and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as tools, toys and toxins.

She holds a Ph.D. in Alternative Futures (Political Science) from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and for over ten years, was a researcher, foresight process designer, and project manager at the Hawai'i Research Center for Futures Studies. Wendy has also served as faculty at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. She is a Fellow and an Executive Board member of the World Futures Studies Federation; a Board Member of the Association of Professional Futurists; a member of the International Advisory Panel of the European Futurists Conference Lucerne; and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (London). She was also a Fulbright research grantee in Finland, and currently, organizes and coordinates the Applied Futurists Council which advises the foresight web portal Shaping Tomorrow.

http://www.infinitefutures.com/resume.html
http://telemed.custompublish.com/index.php?id=329725
http://www.futuremanagementgroup.com/en/speakers/schultz/index.php

Wendy Schultz, Sole Proprietor, Infinite Futures
c/o JB Lewis Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD, United Kingdom
T: +44 (0) 1865 284377 F: +44 (0) 1865 274125 E: wendy@infinitefutures.com

More information on Wendy and her work can be found at http://www.infinitefutures.com.

Gerolf Weigel Gerolf Weigel is Head of the ICT4D Division of SDC, Swiss Foreign Ministry. At the World Summit WSIS Geneva 2003, he had a leading function in the SDC-GKP ICT4D Platform, the largest summit event. G. Weigel is strongly involved in ICT4D networks, policy development and programmes, including the Executive Committee of the ?Global Knowledge Partnership? (GKP). He is Co-Editor of an ICT4D Book (www.globalknowledge.org/ict4d). G. Weigel is Board Member of the World Electronic Media Forum (WEMF). Before joining the SDC Multilateral Cooperation and Development Policy Department as Senior Advisor, he

served as SDC Country Director in Pakistan/Afghanistan (1994-1999) and Bhutan (1987-1990). From 1982 to 1986, he worked in development programmes in Ethiopia, Haiti and Nepal. He gained experience in the Private Sector with Dornier Systems GmbH, Germany. He studied Sciences at the Universities of Berne (PhD), Basle (M.Sc.) and Zurich, and completed the Programme on Macroeconomic Policy and Management at Harvard University.

Gerolf Weigel, Head of ICT4D Division, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Freiburgstrasse 130, CH 3003 Bern, Switzerland
T: +41 31 3223475 F: +41 31 3241348 E: gerolf.weigel@deza.admin.ch

More information on Gerolf and his work may be found at
www.globalknowledge.org/ict4d/index.cfm?menuid=62;
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ldc/mauritius/documents/presentations/sdc.pdf

Rinalia Abdul Rahim Rinalia is Executive Director of the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP), the world's first Multi-Stakeholder Partnership in the area of ICT-facilitated development. Rinalia established the GKP Secretariat in Kuala Lumpur upon its transfer from the World Bank Institute in 2001. She now heads its operations and provides leadership and strategic guidance. She is currently an ex-officio member of the GKP Executive Committee and serves as a member of the International Advisory Panel for the World Summit on the Information Society's ICT4D Platform as well as UNDP's Asia Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP).

She began as a policy technologist in 1997 with the National Information Technology Council (NITC) of Malaysia, the primary advisor and consultant to the Malaysian Government on matters pertaining to ICT for national development. In 1998, she organized a discussion panel involving luminaries such as the Prime Minister of Malaysia, the Vice President of the World Bank Group, the President of the 51st UN General Assembly, the Secretary General of UNCTAD, and the Commissioner of the European Commission.

She was a lead architect of the Second Global Knowledge Conference (GKII) hosted by the Government of Malaysia, and co-chair of the GKP Working Group on Governance. She has also represented Malaysia at numerous international gatherings, and contributed substantively to papers, projects and publications in the field of ICT4D.

Rinalia has a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Princeton University.

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Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Executive Director, Global Knowledge Partnership
Level 23, Tower 2, MNI Twins, 11 Jalan Pinang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
T: +603 21623000 F: +603 21622823 E: rinalia@gkps.org.my

More information on Rinalia and GKP may be found at http://www.globalknowledge.org.