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Dorothy Gordon
Director-General, Advanced Information Technology Institute (AITI), GhanaDorothy K. Gordon is the first Director-General of Ghana’s Advanced Information Technology Institute (AITI), the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT. She is a specialist in international development with over 20 years experience working throughout Africa, the US, Europe and Asia in Executive and Consulting positions with the United Nations, private sector and civil society organisations. Ms Gordon, who has degrees from Ghana and the United Kingdom, serves on a number of international and national boards...
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Jan Kaczmarek
Managing Partner at a startup accelerator 1410ventures and a strategic consulting firm Disruptive Concepts. He is a member of the Board of MOST Foundation (Mobile Open Society Through Wireless Technology) and an Associate Editor for the IC@ST magazine published by ICST. Jan has several year of experience as an R&D consultant and facilitator under international collaborative research projects, including ALIPRO, 3S and HOLA. He has been successfully conducting cooperation endeavours between enterprises, researchers as well as NGOs and public authorities and built interest groups within...
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Rickard Damm
Head of Sales, Mobile Cloud Accelerator Ericsson AB, SwedenWith experience in senior management positions in large blue-chip multinationals such as General Electric and Ericsson and in areas such as digital media, medical devices and telecom, Rickard has a solid track record of building successful businesses in most regions of the world.Most of Rickard's professional career has gravitated around turnarounds and start-up businesses within large organizations. He is frequently engaged internally and externally as speaker and thought leader within telecoms Media, Internet and social web trends....
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Peter A. Bruck
Chairman of EADiM Board, Chairman of the International Center for New Media (ICNM)CEO and Chief Researcher, Research Studios Austria Prof. Dr. Peter A. Bruck has more than 25 years experience in research, university teaching and information technologies in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Portugal, the US and Canada. He founded, built and headed research institutes, including the Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft and the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg. Since 2002, he serves as CEO and Chief Researcher of the Research Studios Austria. With offices in four Austrian cities...
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Mario Franco
President, Foundation for Mobile Communications, Portugal. Mario Franco made studies in philosophy. His background is linked to the associative movement in different areas from youth to development and environment. Later on he dedicated to public policy, focussing on Information and communication technologies. From 1995 he has been involved in eInclusion projects and programs at national and international level. In 2008, he assumed the post of President of FCM - Foundation for Mobile Communications having previously been coordinator of the Portuguese Information Society Fund - proceeding FCM...
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Eberhard Schrempf
Managing Director, CIS Creative Industries Styria, Austria As Director of Creative Industries Styria GmbH (CIS), he develops and shapes the creative industries network in Styria and solicits Graz as UNESCO - City of Design.As Culture Manager and Designer he was for example Vice Art Director for Graz 2003 - European Capital of Culture and has developed and realized the project 25PEACES for the Republic of Austria on the occasion of the commemorative year 2005 and Austria's council presidency in the European Union 2006. Schrempf is also a lecturer of Information Design at the FH Joanneum.
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Gregor Cholewa
International Project Manager, Research Studio AustriaBorn in 1981, in Vienna (Austria). Studied in Vienna, Salzburg and Pamplona – film and media science, communication science and digital television. Recipient of BMBWK scholarship for academic excellence in 2003. As a project manager at Telekom Austria he participated in the development of AonTV. His work on “St. Anna Fernsehen” was awarded the Multimedia and eBusiness State Prize in 2006 (category: innovation). As project lead for CITIZEN MEDIA (FP6) together with Marc Miletich he developed the “dissemination hub”, a web platform promoting...
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Osama Manzar
Founder & Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation, India Osama Manzar is a convert social entrepreneur spearheading the mission to overcome the information barrier between India’s rural sector, and the so-called developed society, through Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF). In 2003 he launched India’s first ever award for choosing the best e-content practices in India and South Asia, the Manthan Award South Asia for “Digital Inclusion for Development”. He has been a part of the Professional Social Entrepreneurship Program by Social-Impact International and has worked assistant editor...
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Lukasz Jablonski
Project Leader at a startup accelerator 1410ventures. Lukasz is a graduate of the prestigious CEMS Master's in International Management (CEMS MIM) Programme and a holder of a M.Sc. Diploma in Finance and Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH). As part of the CEMS MIM curriculum he studied at the Aalto University - Helsinki School of Economics and completed a number of projects in the field of strategic consulting, including business projects with McKinsey & Company, Unilever Finland and Totalizator Sportowy (Polish National Lottery). He gained professional experience in Finland...
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Nkemdilim Uwaje
Entrepreneur, Future Software Resources Ltd., Nigeria Since 2008 Nkemdilim C. Uwaje is Director of Future Software Resources Nigeria Ltd.. She attained a BSc. Hons in Bioinformatics at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), as well as the Technical University of Munich (TUM) Germany. She has worked on various research projects at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatric Research in the department for Statistical Genetics and Proteomics, as well as for the Pharmaceutical Company Affectis Pharmaceuticals AG, Germany. After 2005 Ms. Uwaje was involved in various research projects as well as in...
