Monthly Archives: July 2011

Dr. Philip Wong Siew Koon

Name  

Dr. Philip Wong Siew Koon
Economy SINGAPORE
Title Associate Dean/Pedagogical Development & Innovations /

National Institute of Education
Organization(s) Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) /

Singapore International Foundation
Introduction Past Professional Experience:

  • Teacher educator for the past 30 years
  • Consultant for multinational companies in ICT development in schools
  • Work for non-profit organizations to draft policies, implement and design curriculum for ICT integration in schools.

 

Expert in:

  • ICT integration in education
  • e-learning pedagogy
  • Policies in ICT planning

 

 

Education:

  • BSc at University of Malaya
  • MS(Ed) at Indiana University
  • PhD at University of Minnesota
  • DipEd at National University of Singapore

 

 

Dr. Michael Gurstein

Name  

Dr. Michael Gurstein
Economy CANADA
Title Director
Organization(s) Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training (CCIRDT)
Introduction Past Professional Experience:

  • Research Professor in the School of Management, New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark)
  • Research Professor in the Faculty of Management  University of Quebec (Ouatouais)
  • Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
  • NSERC/SSHRC Associate Chair in the Management of Technological Change, University College of Cape Breton
  • Management Advisor with the United Nations
  • Team Leader (Dean) of the School of Management, Technical University of British Columbia
  • Consultant to the governments of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the European Union, Malaysia, Nepal and Jordan
  • Consultant to the Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, UN Development Program, Nortel, Mitel, Bell Canada, and Intel

 

Expert in:

  • Community Based Technology Applications / Informatics
  • Research & Development in Marginal Communities

 

 

Education:

  • B.A., University of Saskatchewan
  • Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Cambridge

 

 

Dr. Kentaro Toyama

Name  

Dr. Kentaro Toyama
Economy JAPAN / USA
Title Senior Researcher, School of Information
Organization(s) University of California, Berkeley
Introduction Past Professional Experience:

  • Co-Founder & Assistant Managing Director at Microsoft Research India (MSR)
  • Co-Founder of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD)
  • Researcher of Computer Vision and Multimedia at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA and Cambridge, UK

 

 

Expert in:

  • Technology and International Development
  • Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
  • Computer Science (Vision, GIS, Multimedia)

 

 

 

Education:

  • Bachelors degree in Physics, Harvard University
  • PhD in Computer Science, Yale University

 

 

Dr. Yoo-Jin Han

Name  

Dr. Yoo-Jin Han
Economy KOREA
Title Vice-Executive Director / Assistant Professor 

 
Organization(s) Asia Pacific Women’s Information Network Center (APWINC) / 

Department of Entrepreneurship, School of Global Service, Sookmyung Women’s University
Introduction Past Professional Experience: 

  • Development of national-level intellectual property (IP) indicators at the Korean Institute of Intellectual Property

 

 

Expert in:

  • Intellectual Property

 

 

 

Education:

  • B.Sc in Industrial Management, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
  • MBA in International Business, Seoul National University.
  • PhD in the Management of Technology, Seoul National University.

 

 

Dr. Craig Warren Smith

Name  

Dr. Craig Warren Smith
Economy USA
Title Founder & Chairman / Co-Chairman
Organization(s) Digital Divide Institute / Investor Group Against Digital Divide
Introduction Past Professional Experience:

  • Senior Fellow , Center for Ethics of Science and Technology at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
  • Advisor, True Corporation, CP Group
  • Senior Advisor, Human Interactive Technology Laboratory, University of Washington, U.S.A
  • Visiting professor at Kennedy School of Government, Singapore
  • Advisor to multinational corporations (Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Nokia, Oracle), philanthropic institutions (Ford, Rockefeller and Kellogg Foundations), ministers of emerging markets (India, Indonesia, Thailand), intergovernmental institutions (UN, UNESCO, World Bank, OECD), and leading universities (Harvard, MIT).

 

 

Expert in:

  • Meaningful Broadband for economic and social transformation
  • Social and cultural impacts of digital technology
  • Next-generation software and new computer/human interfaces
  • Philanthropy, corporate citizenship, social entrepreneurship and public/private partnerships
  • Strategies for enhancing human impacts of the mobile revolution in Southeast Asia
  • Spiritual Computing
  • Engaged Buddhism

 

 

Education:

  • Political Science (cum laude), Stanford University
  • MA Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
  • PhD in Sociology, Brandeis University

 

 

Mr. Carl Middlehurst

Name

 

Mr. Carl Middlehurst
Economy AUSTRALIA
Title General Counsel and Company Secretary
Organization(s) National ICT Australia (NICTA)
Introduction Past Professional Experience: 

  • Adjunct Professor of Internet and e-Commerce Law, Santa Clara Law SChool
  • Licensing Counsel, The Salk Institute, La Jolla
  • Solicitor, Baker & McKenzie (Sydney and San Diego)
  • Manager of International Investment Program for High-Growth Emerging Markets, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Palo Alto)
  • Local General Counsel for Australasia & Asia South (interim), Sun Microsystems (Australia)
  • Counsel, Marketing,, Trademarks, APAC, APAC Distribution, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Palo Alto)

 

 

Expert in:

  • Intellectual property law and management
  • Commercial law and practice
  • Distribution models
  • Internet, e-Commerce and privacy law
  • International aspects of law on the internet
  • Use of Intranets in legal departments
  • Biochemistry research