Editorial Team
From TTC: Mobile Advocacy Toolkit Working Meeting wiki
Ken Banks
Ken Banks is originally from Jersey in the Channel Islands. He moved to the UK in 1996 to pursue an academic interest in global conservation and development, graduating from Sussex University with a degree in Social Anthropology with Development Studies three years later. He has over 22 years of high-tech experience from the private, corporate and non-profit sectors, and over the past fourteen has worked on numerous conservation and development projects in Zambia, Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Cameroon and Mozambique. Since 2003 he has run his own consultancy, kiwanja.net specializing in the application of mobile technology in the non-profit sector. Ken project managed the European rollout of the first conservation-based mobile portal in 2003/2004 with Vodafone and has more recently worked with the likes of Microsoft, Fauna & Flora International and United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) on the practical application of technology for social and environmental benefit. Last December he spoke in Bangalore at the W3C Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries, and has been invited to speak again - and sit on a specialist panel - at the 16th International World Wide Web Conference in Canada this May. Ken is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University, working on the application of technologies in the developing world.
Evan Henshaw-Plath
Evan (Rabble) Henshaw-Plath is the co-author of the upcomings book Testing and Debugging Ruby on Rails and the Asterisk Cookbook from O'Reilly. He was the lead developer and architect of the podcasting site Odeo.com, one of the first high profile rails sites to launch. He is currently a senior developer at Yahoo! working on the Brickhouse R&D team. Evan has been active in participatory media activism projects including indymedia.org and protest.net and maintains blogs at anarchogeek.com and testingrails.com
Tad Hirsch
Tad Hirsch is a researcher and PhD candidate in the Smart Cities Group at MIT's Media Lab, where his work focuses on the intersections between art, activism, and technology. He has worked with Intel's People and Practices Research Group, Motorola's Advanced Concepts Group and the Interaction Design Studio at Carnegie Mellon University, and has several years experience in the nonprofit sector. Tad is also a frequent collaborator with the Institute for Applied Autonomy, an award-winning arts collective that exhibits throughout the United States and Europe.
Dorothy Okello
Dorothy Okello is the coordinator of Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET). She has worked to get more women and rural communities engaged in the information society for development via gender and ICT policy advocacy and via program implementation and monitoring and evaluation. She has also been a lecturer with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Makerere University, Uganda. She has been for over a decade in teaching, researching, and conducting projects in the ICT sector at national, regional and international levels.
Trixie Concepcion
Trixie Concepcion of TXTPower, the group that popularized the Hello Garci protest ringtones in the Philippines!
Fran Boon
Fran Boon has worked on IT solutions for the developing world for 11 years. Fran is currently the Deputy International Support Manager at Oxfam GB, where he coordinates IT support for the 150 field offices. In his spare time he works on OpenSource projects, such as Sahana.
Geoffrey Muthondu
http://eprom.mit.edu/index.html
Geoffrey is a programmer working with Nathan Eagle (MIT) under the EPROM programe. (part of the Program for Developmental Entrepreneurship within the MIT Design Laboratory, which aims to foster mobile phone-related research and entrepreneurship). Key activities include:
- the development of new applications for mobile phone users worldwide
- academic research using mobile phones
- the creation of a widely applicable mobile phone programming curriculum
Christiana Iyoha
Christiana Charles-Iyoha is a development communications practitioner involved in policy and development analysis with a bias to gender influence, coherence and integration in development. Christiana has a keen interest in and a burning passion for gendered development policy and development programming. An active participant in the Nigerian and global social development discourse, Christiana has extensive experience in germane social development issues from the National Foundation on Vesico Vagina Fistulae, Post Abortion Care Network, (Nigeria), and Development Information Network. She is the Executive Director of the Centre for Policy and Development, Lagos, Nigeria and the Protem Coordinator of the African Women ICT4D Network.
Rick Bahague
Rick leads the Computer Professional's Union (CPU)
Kevin Nnadi
Nnadi Kevin an Economist, came into development work in 2001 with optionaid Nigeria in the area of women and youth development. Had worked for four years in the Reproductive health and Economic empowerment project of optionaid Nigeria for women and youth of low income status in Plateau state. He was involved in fashioning the population policy of Nigeria as a member of the National Poulation Policy Review Committee for North-Central Nigeria. He has experience in community mobilization - working with women and In-and-Out of school youth. Kevin has worked with UNICEF as a master trainer in the UNICEF/National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS prevention project D-field. He has keen interest in mainstreaming ICT in the Rural Development work. He is the executive Director, International Center for Accelerated Development an organisation committed to ICT, gender issues, women and youth empowerment.
Bobby Soriano
Roberto Soriano is a self taught IT practitioner. Currently working with an NGO in the Philippines the Institute for Popular Democracy (IPD) as a staff of the Applied Technology and Information Solutions (ATIS) - the information technology department of IPD. Roberto "Bobby" has worked with a few NGOs in the Philippines for the past 15 years doing mostly general systems administration work. Bobby has also been invited on several occasions to provide trainings on secure online communications in the Philippines and abroad. In addition to doing systems administration work, his interests lie in xBSD, Mac and GNU/Linux systems.
Toni Eliasz
Toni Eliasz gained a reputation as a mission driven social entrepreneur with the aim to understand the opportunities and risks of future technologies (especially Information and communication Technologies, ICTs) and use this knowledge to contribute towards sustainable world and society. One of the key figures of a Global eRiding Network, a world-wide movement of non-profit technology consultants. A rising young visionary, advocate, and a speaker on international digital divide issues.
