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Nawaf Mohammed Abdulrahman
Nawaf is Chief of Information Technology at the Ministry of Housing in Bahrain and Vice President of Bahrain Internet Society. He also holds several other important roles such as Head of the Jury Committee of Arab Golden Chip Award 2010 and Chief of Technical & Jury Committee in Bahrain eContent Award 2009. Nawaf boasts 12 years strong ICT operational and strategic experience with proven ability to manage various scale projects through the complete lifecycle and delivery within time and budget constraints.Nawaf has an MBA with a focus on Finance and a Bachelor in Information Technology,...
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Titi Akinsanmi
Ms. Akinsanmi’s experience spans the public and private sector. She has consulted for a range of international institutions including the IICD, UN-GAID and the World Bank amongst others. Her area of expertise is in strategic consulting (advocacy project management, communications, network development), policy research on ICTs, education, innovation and social entrepreneurship. She has engaged with dynamic policy processes nationally, regionally and internationally on the information society, ICT for development and gender. An avid bi-lingual speaker, Ms. Akinsanmi served two terms on...
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Zawan Al-Sabti
Zawan Hamed Al-Sabti works for the Information Technology Authority. She started her career as a marketing & training specialist. Working for ITA, Zawan was a member in the first editorial team which started Digital Oman magazine and worked on its content for 5 issues. In 2006, she managed e-Oman Marketing & Awareness campaign, where she started one of the most important road shows on e-government awareness in Oman. In the period from 2004 to 2005, Zawan was a key member in Oman WSIS preparatory Task force & represented Oman in the regional international WSIS conferences and...
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Jennifer Corriero
Named by the World Economic Forum as a 'Young Global Leader', Jennifer Corriero is a Canadian innovator with a passion for engaging youth and leveraging online networks as a tool for community development. Jennifer is Co-founder and Executive Director of TakingITGlobal, a non-profit organization with the aim of fostering cross-cultural dialogue, strengthening the capacity of youth as leaders and increasing awareness and involvement in global issues through the use of technology. The online community currently receives over 1 million hits each day and has over 200,000 members from over 200...
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Tom Dawkins
Tom founded youth organisations at high school and university before establishing Vibewire Youth Media and Arts Inc. to create expression opportunities for young Australians through media and arts in 2000, whilst still at university. Vibewire projects including the Reelife Short Film Festival, Interface Anthology of Youth Writing, sQuareOne incubator space and electionTracker, which sent youth reports out on the campaign trail during two Federal elections. He's assisted numerous organisations with program design and communications strategies and for five years organised electronic music...
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Ehssan Riazi Esfehani
Ehssan Riazi Esfehani, born in 1982, is an IT consultant and eSolutions project manager working with governmental and private organizations in Iran and abroad in order to help develop better e-contents and e-solutions. He has helped in development of e-contents and narrowing the digital gap by writing in different IT and economical papers, many media interviews, working closely with ICT reporters, speaking at conferences and writing on the web. Ehssan is the co-founder of "e-solutions festival" (IranWSA.com) since 2004, the first contest on e-content and digital media in Iran which has also...
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Alex Fielding
Alex Fielding is a human rights lawyer with expertise in international law, policy and youth activism. He has experience in the public and private sector with the United Nations, TakingITGlobal.org, Amnesty International, Stikeman Elliott LLP and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.Alex is passionate about harnessing technology for social change and human rights through multi-stakeholder initiatives like the WSYA.
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Andrew Gakiria
Andrew Gakiria is the National Coordinator of Kenya e-Learning Centre (KeLC) and a course manager for e-Learning programmes in Africa. He also provides support to online tutors as well as facilitation in regional workshops.Gakiria is the World Summit Award (WSA) Digital Content expert for Kenya.He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations and Security Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Sociology from the University of Nairobi. He is also an expert of new learning technologies having taken a technical course from the University of Frutwargen Germany.Prior to...
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Alex Hung
Mr. Alex Hung is the Managing Director of Crossover International Co., Ltd., which is an IT and Business Consulting company. He has extensive experience in international business development, project management and alliance development. Recently, he is leading a new challenging project in interactive 3D middleware development. He was the Project Director of Hong Kong ICT Awards 2006: eYouth and HKICT Award 2007,2008: Best Innovation and Research Award, an programme that provides opportunities to participants to demonstrate their talented ICT projects to the industry, academia and the general...
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Sebastian Ladika
Sebastian Ladika is president of Croatian association for promotion of information society CAPIS, a non-profit organization focused on developing information society in Croatia and establishing a network of local technology professionals and entrepreneurs. Through CAPIS he is developing several online community projects for building partnership and cooperation between government, private business and universities, organizing various IT lectures, workshops and seminars, and is responsible for organization of local e-Content award. He is also coordinator of IPv6 Task Force Croatia, a local...
