Openness

Moderator

Nick Gowing became a main programme anchor for the BBC's international television news channel BBC World. From 1996 to March 2000 Nik was the principal anchor for the 90 minute weekday news programme The World Today and its predecessor NewsDesk. He has been a founding presenter of BBC's Europe Direct and has been a guest anchor on both the BBC's HARDtalk and the BBC's Simpson's World. He is now a main presenter on the news programmes re-launched in April 2000 and a regular presenter for the BBC's Dateline London. Nik's appointment draws both on his extensive reporting experience over two decades in diplomacy, defence and international security, and his presentation and chairing skills. Nik regularly anchors BBC World live coverage from major international events, including the UN World Sustainability summit in Johannesburg, the German, Dutch and Russian elections, and the India-Pakistan summit in Agra.

Panelists

Carlos Afonso has participated in the evolution of the new ICTs since their introduction in LAC region. Carlos Afonso is part of the RITS team, a NGO-oriented services and capacity-building network on information and communication technologies using the Internet as its main medium. Carlos and Herbert de Souza (known as Betihno) founded one of the most important Brazilian NGOs, the the Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Analysis, IBASE. Carlos design, implemented and managed the AlterNex project, the first computer-based communications and information system in Latin America dedicated to serve civil society organizations. He is a co-founder of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). In 1991-1992, Carlos proposed and coordinated the "UNCED Information Strategy Project in Rio" (UNCED ISP/Rio), first Internet project specifically developed for a UN conference. ISP/Rio's aims were to provide communications and information through the Internet so that organizations which had not been able to come to Rio was able to follow up on the events via the network. Carlos Afonso is also an independent consultant of the UNDP, IDRC, among other organizations. He was a member of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). Carlos is author of many books, articles and studies in relation to Internet development political and social issues, in different languages.

Anriette Esterhuysen became the Association for Progressive Communications Executive Director in May 2000. Her area of expertise is information and communications for development. Anriette has served on the African Technical Advisory Committee of the Economic Commission for Africa's African Information Society Initiative, is a member of the Canadian International Development Research Centre's South African Acacia Advisory Committee, a member of the governing council of the Society for International Development and a board member of several NGOs. Prior to her post with APC, Anriette spent seven years as Executive Director at SANGONeT, an electronic information and communications service provider for the development sector in Southern and South Africa, and APC member network. Before SANGONeT, Anriette worked as the chief information and documentation officer at the South African Council of Churches (SACC) from 1987 to 1991, and was the Director of Information Services at the Development Resources Centre from 1992 to 1993. She is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Hanne Sophie Greve is a Norwegian Justice, former judge at the European Court of Human Rights and international consultant to several international relief and human rights agencies. Her experience includes work in Thailand, Ethiopia, Angola, Romania and Cambodia.

Joichi Ito is General Manager of International Operations for Technorati, Chairman of Six Apart Japan, and also currently a member of the board of Creative Commons, Socialtext, The MetaBrainz Foundation and Technorati Japan. He is the Chairman of the board of Creative Commons International. He is the founder and CEO of the venture capital firm Neoteny Co., Ltd. In October of 2004, he was named to the board of ICANN for a three-year term starting December 2004. In April of 2005, he was named to the board of the Open Source Initiative. In August of 2005, he joined the board of the Mozilla Foundation. In 2006 he was appointed to the board of WITNESS. He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. In 1997 Time Magazine ranked him as a member of the CyberElite. In 2000 he was ranked among the "50 Stars of Asia" by Business Week and commended by the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for supporting the advancement of IT. In 2001 the World Economic Forum chose him as one of the 100 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" for 2002. He is currently researching "The Sharing Economy" as a Doctor of Business Administration candidate at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University in Japan. He is a follow at the USC Annenberg Center for Communications.

Jamie Love is the director of the Consumer Project on Technology, an NGO with offices in Washington DC, London and Geneva that works mainly on matters concerning intellectual property policy and practice, particularly as they relate to health care and access to knowledge. An advisor to a number of UN agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs, Mr. Love is US co-chair of the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue Working Group on Intellectual Property, founder and Chairman of Essential Inventions, Chairman of the Union for the Public Domain, Chairman of the Civil Society Coalition, and members of the MSF working groups on Intellectual Property and Research and Development, the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue Task Force on Intellectual Property. Mr. Love was previously Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a Lecturer at Rutgers University, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University. He received a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a Masters in Public Affairs from the Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Paschal Mooney is a public representative, a journalist and a businessman. In 1987 he was elected Seanad Éireann on the Cultural and Educational Panel. He has been re-elected at each subsequent Seanad Election. He is currently a Member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Irish Delegation to the Council of Europe, a member British-Irish Inter Parliamentary Body, the Forum for Europe and is a Member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Andrew Puddephatt is Director of Global Partners and Associates an organisation that promotes good governance, democracy and human rights and is a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics. He chairs the Audit Committee for the Parliamentary Ombudsman in the UK and also chairs an independent transparency panel for Britain’s nuclear waste company Nirex. From January 1999 to October 200 he was the Executive Director of ARTICLE 19, an international human rights organisation that promotes freedom of expression globally. He has been an expert member of both the Council of Europe of the Commonwealth Expert working groups on freedom of information and freedom of expression. He is the Vice-Chair of International Media Support; a Danish based NGO that provides emergency support to journalists in conflict areas. He is also a member of International Steering Committee for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina database, a Norwegian based project that documents censorship in the world and is an international Board member of the Open Democracy Centre in South Africa. Andrew has been a senior manager in the not for profit sector for more than twelve years. Between October 1995 and January 1999 he was the Director of Charter 88 which was the UK’s leading constitutional reform organisation. Between 1989 and 1995 he was General Secretary of Liberty (aka the National Council for Civil Liberties). In both capacities he played a leading role in securing a Bill of Rights for the UK. This was agreed in 1998 after eight years campaigning and took effect in October 2000. In January 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to human rights.

Art Reilly, Senior Director, Strategic Technology Policy at Cisco Systems, has been a leader in improving interoperability and quality in networks through telecommunications standards for more than 20 years. He is Cisco’s principal representative to the International Telecommunications Union and other UN activities on technology policy matters, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the US ITU Association. Art has successfully led nationally, regionally and globally efforts to promote voluntary, private-sector-led, market-driven standardization and to harmonize standards development. From 1984 until 1996, he held various leadership positions, including Chairman in the ANSI-accredited telecommunications networks standards committee sponsored by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS). As the business Vice Chair of the UN ICT Task Force, he provided leadership in promoting the achievement of the UN Millennium Declaration Goals (improving the quality of life for people around the world) through the use of information technology. Art has been an active private sector representative in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) processes. Art is also a past member of the Standards Board for the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the IEEE’s Charles Steinmetz Awards Committee.

Richard Sambrook is the Director of the BBC World Service and Global News, and former Director of BBC News. Sambrook was educated at Oakwood Grammar School in Maidstone, at the University of Reading and at Birkbeck College, London. His first jobs were as a journalist for various local newspapers in south Wales. In 1980 he joined the BBC as a sub-editor. He has stayed with the organisation ever since and steadily risen through the newsroom ranks. He became Director of News in 2001. Sambrook's name became well-known to the general public when, on July 20, 2003, he announced that Dr. David Kelly had been the BBC's source for its story that the British Government had knowingly exaggerated claims over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction in the September Dossier. In July 2004, the BBC announced that Sambrook would become director of the World Service and Global News from that September. He was replaced as Director of News by Helen Boaden, former Controller of Radio 4. Sambrook is a member of the board of trustees of the human rights group ARTICLE 19 and a board member of the Fritz Institute.

Fred Tipson is Senior Policy Counsel for Microsoft in Washington, DC. He is responsible for international organizations, development agencies and developing country issues in New York and Washington. Before joining Microsoft in early 2004, he was executive director of a project on ICT for Development at the Markle Foundation in New York, working closely with the United Nations Development Programme. Fred spent sixteen years in the international telecommunications industry, including fourteen years with AT&T and two years with Cable & Wireless - Hongkong Telecom. From 1979-84, he was counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under Jacob K. Javits (R-NY) and Charles H. Percy (R-IL). Fred has both a doctorate in Foreign Affairs and a law degree from the University of Virginia, an MA in International Relations from Yale, and a BA in history from Stanford. He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations for many years and was an International Affairs Fellow (1978-79) and a Senior Fellow (2000-2001) at the Council. He and his wife, Laura, have three children.

Catherine Trautmann Ancienne Ministre, Députée Européenne (depuis juin 2004 – Groupe du Parti des Socialistes européens / délégation française) Née le 15 janvier 1951 à Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) Maîtrise de théologie protestante : spécialisée en langue et littérature copte. Théologienne. Députée du Bas-Rhin (1986-1988) ; Déléguée nationale à l’urbanisme au comité directeur du Parti Socialiste (1987) ; secrétaire d’Etat auprès du Ministère des Affaires Sociales chargée des Personnes Agées et des Handicapés (1988) ; présidente de la mission interministérielle pour la lutte contre la toxicomanie (1988-1989) ; maire de Strasbourg (1989-1997) ; présidente de la Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg (1989-1997) ; élue députée PS du Bas-Rhin en juin 1997. Démissionne de son mandat de maire et de la présidence de la Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg en juin 1997 après sa nomination au gouvernement et reste membre du conseil municipal ; porte-parole du gouvernement de Lionel Jospin, Premier Ministre (1997-1998) ; ministre de la Culture et de la Communication (1997-2000) ; présidente de la Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg (2000-2001) ; candidat PS aux élections municipales de mars 2001, devancée au second tour par Fabienne Keller. Conseillère municipale de Strasbourg (depuis 1983) ; députée européenne (élue en 1989, réélue en juin 2004) ; Catherine TRAUTMANN est membre, au Parlement européen, de la commission Industrie , Recherche et Energie ( membre titulaire ) et membre suppléante de la commission Culture , Education et Jeunesse. Elle est également membre du bureau national du Parti Socialiste (depuis avril 2000) ; membre du conseil national du Parti Socialiste.