RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITY: Child Protection in a Web 2.0 World

Phil Archer

Chief Technical Officer
FOSI

Science and technology have always figured prominently in Phil's formal education and private passions. Nevertheless, it was a varied career path which lead to him joining ICRA (now FOSI) in April 2000.

The mix of skills gained along the way means that not only does he understand the technology behind the ICRA system, but can communicate it effectively to techies and policy makers alike.

Since the beginning of 2003, the focus of Phil's work has been the integration of the ICRA system into the worldwide effort to create the "Semantic Web." This involves working with a variety of technical experts in developing methods to make it quick and easy to add machine-readable descriptions to large amounts of content. ICRA's move from PICS to RDF in 2005 is part of this ongoing effort.

Phil represents FOSI within the W3C and is an active member of the Mobile Web Initiative's Best Practices Working Group. Among other things, this group is responsible for defining the "mobileOK" trustmark. This is highly relevant to the Quatro project from which comes Phil's other major activity within W3C, chairmanship of the Protocol for Web Description Resources Working Group (POWDER). This in turn followed on from the Web Content Label Incubator Activity, the first activity of this kind within the Web's leading standards body.

Brian T. Ashby

Associate General Counsel - Digital Media, Music & Content, Legal Department
Verizon

Brian is responsible for Content Licensing; Commercial Transactions; Copyright & Trademark; Telecommunications Regulation in Verizon's Legal Department.

Brian began his career as an associate with two private law firms in Washington, D.C., Keller & Heckman LLP and Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, where he focused on telecommunications and regulatory law. He began his in-house career when he joined the Legal Department of US WEST, Inc. in Denver, Colorado as a Senior Attorney in the State Regulatory Law Group.

In 2000, Brian joined the Legal Department of Verizon Wireless. At Verizon Wireless, he played an integral role in the launch of many of Verizon Wireless data services, including V CAST Music, Ringtones, Ringback Tones, V CAST Video, BroadbandAccess, Get It Now, TXT Messaging, Picture and Video Messaging, push e-mail services like Blackberry, location services and the Global Phone, and he negotiated application, content and service agreements with the vendors used by Verizon Wireless. He also provided legal support on related issues like content standards, privacy, advertising, local number portability and electronic commerce.

Earlier this year, Brian moved into his current role in the Legal Department of Verizon. In this role, he is responsible for licensing the content distributed by Verizon Wireless and Verizon Online, including video, music, games, ringtones, ringback tones, wallpaper and text messaging programs. He also provides legal support on related issues like content standards, parental controls, user generated content and social networking.

Brian attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, and graduated in May 1987 with a BA in International Relations and a minor in History. He graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia in May 1990 where he obtained his Juris Doctor. He has practiced law for 17 years.

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Dorothy Attwood

Senior Vice President-Regulatory Planning & Policy and Chief Privacy Officer
AT&T, Inc.

Dorothy Attwood, Senior Vice President-Regulatory Planning and Policy and Chief Privacy Officer for AT&T, Inc., is responsible for developing and coordinating the company's regulatory policy at both the state and federal levels. As Chief Privacy Officer, Attwood has broad enterprise-wide oversight of all activities related to the development and implementation of policies governing the privacy of customer information.

Previously she served as senior vice president-federal regulatory strategy and integration, where she was responsible for developing federal regulatory strategies and ensuring that key federal policy initiatives are effectively integrated within the company's business and regulatory groups.

Prior to joining the company in August 2002, Attwood spent two years as chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau. During her six-year tenure at the agency, she provided strategic and policy counsel to FCC Chairmen William Kennard and Michael Powell. She served as senior legal advisor to Chairman Kennard on all common carrier, enforcement and consumer matters and as chief of the Enforcement Division of the Common Carrier Bureau.

Dorothy received her bachelor's degree from Brown University, a masters from The Wharton School and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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Stephen Balkam

Chief Executive Officer
Family Online Safety Institute

Stephen Balkam is the founding CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute, an international organization whose aim is to identify and promote best practice, tools and methods in the field of online safety. The Institute's work includes the development of the ICRA family of products and services, online safety events, public policy and public education.

Prior to this, Stephen was the founder and CEO of the Internet Content Rating Association and the Recreational Software Advisory Council, where he led the creation of the world's leading content description system for digital content. In addition, he has run three other non-profit organizations and ran his own consultancy business. Stephen won the 1998 Carl Bertelsmann Prize in Gütersloh, Germany, for innovation and responsibility in the Information Society. And he was named one of the Top 50 UK Movers and Shakers, Internet Magazine, 2001.

Debra Berlyn

President
Consumer Policy Solutions

Debra Berlyn is President of Consumer Policy Solutions, a consulting firm centered on developing public policies addressing the interests of consumers and the marketplace. With over 18 years of consumer advocacy experience, she is a seasoned veteran of handling in-depth, regulatory and legislative issues. She is experienced in communicating complex language and issues into easily understandable, applicable messages for consumers.

Ms. Berlyn has been recognized as a national voice on the issue of online safety and is a regular guest on radio talk shows. As an online safety expert, she writes on the importance of keeping children safe online and was recently published in the Daytona Beach News-Journal and the New Jersey Herald News.

Prior to launching Consumer Policy Solutions, Ms. Berlyn was Senior Legislative Representative in the Federal Affairs Department of AARP, responsible for all communications and energy matters. She advocated on behalf of the members of AARP before Congress, the federal agencies (FCC, FERC, FEC, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce), and the Administration. Although Ms. Berlyn is no longer with AARP on a full-time basis, she retains responsibilities on a consulting basis, working primarily on the digital television transition issue. Consumer Policy Solutions other clients include consumer organizations and industry. Prior to her position at AARP, Ms. Berlyn was president of Consumer Policy Consulting, a firm supporting the implementation of pro-consumer telecommunications and energy policies. Ms. Berlyn was co-founder and Executive Director of the Competition Policy Institute, a non-profit organization, from 1996 to 2002. Immediately prior to creating CPI, Ms. Berlyn served as the Executive Director of the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA). Prior to her position with NASUCA, Ms. Berlyn worked for several public interest organizations, developing grassroots lobbying programs and campaigns.

After serving two terms on the Federal Communications Commission Consumer Advisory Committee, Ms. Berlyn was recently appointed chairperson for the Committee. Ms. Berlyn was appointed by the FCC Chairman to serve on the Board of Directors for the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) from 2006 - 2007. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Consumers League.

Ms. Berlyn has served as a faculty instructor with Boston University's Washington Program. She received a B.A. from American University and a M.A. from Northwestern University.

Kathryn C. Brown

Senior Vice President - Public Policy Development & Corporate Responsibility
Verizon

Kathryn C. Brown has been with the Verizon since June 2002. She is responsible for Verizon's corporate responsibility initiatives, policy development and issues management, public policy messaging, strategic alliances and the Verizon Foundation.

Before joining Verizon, Ms. Brown was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and a member of the firm's Communications and Electronic Commerce practice, where she focused on the legal and regulatory challenges for communications companies in the converging telecommunications market.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Brown was the Chief of Staff of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) where she managed Chairman William E. Kennard's agenda on all telecommunications, broadcast, and spectrum matters. She previously served as the Chief of the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau, where she led key initiatives implementing the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Before working at the FCC, Ms. Brown was the Associate Administrator, Office of Policy Analysis and Development, at the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications & Information Administration. In that position, she was closely involved in President Clinton's initiatives to put computers in every classroom in America, and to close the "digital divide" by promoting the deployment of advanced technologies both here and abroad. Ms. Brown also worked for eight years at the New York State Public Service Commission in various capacities, including as the Director of the Consumer Services Division and as Litigation Attorney and Managing Attorney for Telecommunications with the Office of General Counsel. Prior to joining the NYPSC, she was the Deputy Clerk of the New York State Court of Appeals.

Ms. Brown received her J.D., summa cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law in 1980 and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Marist College in 1974. She is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia.

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John Carr

Internet Consultant

John is Secretary of the UK's Children's Charities' Coalition on Internet Safety, comprising all of the UK's major professional child welfare organizations. He was previously the Head of the Children and Technology Unit at NCH. The focus of much of John's work is on the "digital divide", seeking to ensure all children and young people can benefit from the wonderful opportunities presented by the new technologies. He has given special attention to the needs of handicapped children and other disadvantaged groups.

John is a member of the British Government's Internet Task Force on Child Protection and is also a member of the Education Ministry's Task Force charged with ensuring that all families with children of school age have internet access at home. His publications include "A Parent's Guide to the Internet", "The Role of the Internet In the Commission of Crime", "Child Pornography, Child Abuse and the Internet" and, in 2001, he wrote the theme paper on child pornography that was presented to the 2nd World Congress on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Yokohama, organized by UNICEF and the Government of Japan.

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John Carosella

Vice President of Content Control
Blue Coat Systems

John Carosella is responsible for the K9 Web Protection product and its associated community outreach program at Blue Coat. Through their own experience in raising children, John and the K9 Web Protection team arrived at a radical solution to a pressing problem: Blue Coat would contribute a key technology from its commercial portfolio to parents, in the form of a free, easy-to-use Internet content filter. In addition to K9 Web Protection, the Blue Coat Community Outreach Program provides materials to educate the first generation of "Internet Parents" about the impact of the Internet on children and on parenting strategies. John holds a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University.

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Vinton G. Cerf

Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist
Google

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company. Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. In 1997, President Clinton recognized their work with the U.S. National Medal of Technology. In 2005, Vint and Bob received the highest civilian honor bestowed in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the software code used to transmit data across the Internet has put them "at the forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication, and entertainment."

From 1994-2005, Vint served as Senior Vice President at MCI. Prior to that, he was Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), and from 1982-86 he served as Vice President of MCI. During his tenure with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1976-1982, Vint played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies.

From 2000 until very recently, Vint served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. He served as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995 and was on the ISOC board until 2000. Vint is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and more than a dozen honorary degrees.

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Chris Cheah

Authority Member, Australian Communications and Media Authority

Mr Chris Cheah is a full-time member of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). ACMA commenced on 1 July 2005 and was formed by the merger of the previous Australian Broadcasting Authority and Australian Communications Authority.

Chris has had a wide range of roles in communications policy and strategy. These have included policy, research, regulatory and strategy roles with the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA), the National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE), AUSTEL and Telstra. He played a leading role in the development of telecommunications, broadcasting and online content legislation, including the Telecommunications Act 1991, the 1997 telecommunications reforms, and the online content provisions of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992. He also led a major research team in the early 1990s when he was research manager for the Communications Futures Project in the Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics.

For six years he headed up the telecommunications and postal division in DCITA, which advised successive communications ministers on telecommunications policy and legislative issues, as well as running a range of government funding programs.

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Dominique Clement

FlowInspect SpA

In an impressive, fast-moving career in the telecommunication and information technology industries, Dominique has acquired over 20 years of experience of success in major development, sales and marketing positions for international companies.

After gaining his doctorate in Applied Mathematics and a master's degree in Software Engineering, Dominique joined the Sema group in Sophia Antipolis. Starting as a Senior Engineer he moved to Project Director of a multi-million euros research project. Then he founded a start-up, Connexite, to develop a software product for the scientific market; the product is currently a leader in the domain. From there, Dominique took on a wide variety of senior roles in sales, marketing and business development. At Ascom he was Sales & Marketing Manager of their Carrier Access Division, dramatically increasing new business sales, and then he took on a succession of senior marketing and business development posts within Lucent Technologies.

Since 2002 Dominique has worked as VP Sales for two French start-ups. First at Quescom Dominique put in place a partnership with CISCO. As Senior VP International at NETASQ, Dominique has overseen rapidly increasing sales, built partnerships with major telecoms operators across Europe and developed export business in India, the Middle East, and Asia. Dominique has huge expertise in every aspect of high-tech marketing, including market requirements, competitive/market analyses, product positioning, pricing policy and sales strategy across a wide variety of technology product markets. He also has a wealth of experience in setting up winning international partnerships, in product development and in positioning products and systems at both business and technical management levels.

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Roger J. Cochetti

Group Director - U.S. Public Policy
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA)

Roger J. Cochetti joined CompTIA in September of 2004 as Group Director of U.S. Public Policy, where he directs CompTIA's U.S. public policy programs. Before coming to CompTIA, Roger was Senior Vice President for Policy at VeriSign, an Internet and telecom services company. Previously, he was Program Director for Policy with IBM Corporation, where he directed IBM's global e-commerce policy efforts. Earlier, he served as a Vice President of Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) and Assistant Director of the U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency (USIDCA).

Roger Cochetti currently serves on the Boards of the Public Affairs Council, the Internet Education Foundation and the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI). He was a founder of the Internet Law & Policy Forum (ILPF), the Global Business Dialogue on e-Commerce (GBDe), TRUSTe, ICRA, Better Business Bureau Online (BBBOL), the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee and a variety of Internet-related initiatives.

Roger is the author of a book and numerous articles on advanced telecommunications and computer industry topics and has frequently spoken publicly and testified on IT and Internet policy matters. He has been recognized by Who's Who and is a member of the Princeton Club of New York and the National Press Club. Roger graduated from Georgetown University and continued his education at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

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Bob Corn-Revere

Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Robert Corn-Revere is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, specializing in First Amendment, Internet and communications law. He has served as counsel in cases challenging the constitutionality online speech restrictions in the Communications Decency Act and the Child Online Protection Act, and was lead counsel in Mainstream Loudoun, Inc. v. Board of Trustees of the Loudoun County Public Library, the first case to hold that mandatory use of Internet content filters in public libraries violates the First Amendment. He successfully argued United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc., in which the United States Supreme Court struck down Section 505 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as a violation of the First Amendment.

He has written extensively on First Amendment, Internet and communications-related issues and has provided expert testimony before numerous congressional committees and the FCC. He is co-author of a three-volume treatise entitled Modern Communications Law, published by West Group, and is Editor and co-author of the book Rationales & Rationalizations. Mr. Corn-Revere is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Pike & Fischer's Internet Law & Regulation.

Before joining Davis Wright Tremaine L.L.P., Mr. Corn-Revere was a partner at Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. in Washington D.C. from 1994 to 2003. Prior to that, he served as Chief Counsel to Chairman James H. Quello of the Federal Communications Commission. Previously, from 1990 until 1993, he was Commissioner Quello's Legal Advisor. In 2003, he successfully petitioned Governor George E. Pataki to grant the first posthumous pardon in New York history to the late comedian Lenny Bruce.

Linda Criddle

Author

Linda Criddle is a tireless advocate for consumers. Her passion and talent for teaching Internet safety principles has benefited youth, parents, and educators. She is author of the award-winning consumer-oriented book, Look Both Ways: Help protect your family on the Internet, and gives consumers the same straightforward, accessible online safety information on her Web site, Look-both-ways.com.

Before establishing her company, LOOKBOTHWAYS Online Safety Consulting LLC, Criddle spent 13 years at Microsoft where she was a pioneer in online safety for the MSN division and more broadly to the entire company. Criddle has a deep understanding of online predatory behavior and drove the work to create practical, technical and policy-based solutions. The depth and breadth of Linda's online safety expertise is reflected in her direct participation in the creation and filing of numerous patents on behalf of Microsoft in the areas of emerging technologies and online safety.

Linda chairs the Education Committee for the State Attorney General's Youth Internet Safety Taskforce in Washington State, and she advises on Internet safety matters for several other attorneys general around the U.S. In addition, Linda has offered online safety training and design expertise to executives and product teams across the technology industry.

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David S. Diggs

Executive Director
The Wireless Foundation

David Diggs was named Executive Director of The Wireless Foundation in June 2000. He previously served as Vice President, Global Marketing for CIBERNET Corporation, a former subsidiary of CTIA dealing in wireless roaming administration. Prior to joining CTIA, Diggs held marketing and operations positions with several wireless carriers.

The Wireless Foundation, a non-profit organization established in 1991, initiates and oversees philanthropic programs that apply wireless technology to help make America's communities safer, including "Get Wise About Wireless, " a partnership with Weekly Reader to educate middle-schoolers on safe, smart and courteous use of wireless; Wireless AMBER Alerts, a free public service partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, United States Department of Justice and the Ad Council that delivers AMBER alerts as text messages to wireless devices; Text 2HELP, which allows wireless customers to donate to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund by sending a text message; and CALL TO PROTECT, which provides wireless services for survivors of domestic violence as well as funding for organizations combating family violence.

Mr. Diggs received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University and his MBA from Loyola College. He serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

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James Dirksen

Vice President of Business Development and Managing Director
RuleSpace

James is responsible for all business and product strategy at RuleSpace. He joined the company in 1999 and worked in Engineering and Production Operations to design and deploy the first generation of distributed RuleSpace solutions. He currently manages RuleSpace product strategy, sales and partnerships.

James also serves as an advisor to industry, legislative and law enforcement, regulatory bodies and child protection advocates worldwide.

James has 13 years of experience in Internet solutions and business development. Prior to joining RuleSpace, he worked at Coopers and Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) and Northrop Grumman. Mr. Dirksen holds Bachelors Degrees in Chemistry and Biology from Point Loma University, San Diego, California.

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Charles M. Firestone

Executive Director
Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program

Since Charles' appointment in December 1989, the Aspen Institute's Communications and Society Program has focused on the impact of new technologies on democratic, economic and social institutions, the development of new communications policy models and options for the public interest, and the implications of communications and information technologies for leadership. For three years Charles Firestone was also the Institute's Executive Vice President for Policy Programs and International Activities.

Charles Firestone is the editor, author or co-author of several books and numerous articles on communications law and policy. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a GLOCOM Fellow of the Japanese Institute of Global Communications in Tokyo, Japan, and was a Visiting Professor at the Duke University Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy in 2003.

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U.S. Ambassador David A. Gross

Ambassador, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy
U.S. Department of State

Ambassador David A. Gross has served since August 2001 as the U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the Senate.

Ambassador Gross began his career in communications twenty-five years ago. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 (BA in Economics) and receiving his law degree from Columbia University in 1979, Ambassador Gross joined the law firm of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan. While at the law firm, he became a partner specializing in telecommunication issues. In 1994, he left the firm to become Washington Counsel for AirTouch Communications. In 1999, AirTouch was acquired by Vodafone. In 2000, Ambassador Gross joined the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign as National Executive Director of Lawyers for Bush-Cheney.

Since joining the Department of State, Ambassador Gross has addressed the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and has led more U.S. delegations to major international telecommunication conferences than anyone in modern history, including the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 2002 Plenipotentiary Conference (Marrakech, Morocco), the 2002 ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (Istanbul, Turkey), the 2004 ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (Florianópolis, Brazil), the 2006 ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (Doha), and the 2006 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (Antalya, Turkey). He also has led U.S. delegations to two APEC Tel Ministerial Meetings in Shanghai, China and Lima, Peru. Ambassador Gross led the U.S. Government participation in the multilateral preparatory work for both phases of the UN's "Heads of State" World Summit on the Information Society and had the honor of leading the U.S. delegation to the formal Summit both in Geneva in 2003 and in Tunis 2005. These were the largest U.N. Summits ever held with almost 20,000 delegates and a large number of Heads of States and government.

Ambassador Gross has been a member of the UN Information and Communications Technologies Task Force. He also has led interagency telecommunications delegations to many countries, conducted bilateral discussions at senior levels with representatives from more than 70 countries, and provided commercial and policy advocacy on behalf of U.S. companies in markets around the world. Ambassador Gross has had the honor to lecture at many colleges and universities around the world,including the United States, Canada, Qatar, the UAE, Yemen, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, France, Kazakhstan, Singapore, Rwanda and Pakistan.

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Marsali Hancock

President
Internet Keep Safe Coalition

As president of the Internet Keep Safe Coalition, Marsali Hancock works to help families implement Internet safety and security in their homes; she brings 20 years of public service to this office. Over the past three years, she has developed and implemented Coalition strategic plans, overseen product development of the Faux Paw the Techno Cat Internet Safety Program and support curriculum, and gathered funding for all Coalition initiatives, to date, more than $5 million with a reach of more than 50 million people.

Ms Hancock speaks internationally on Internet safety and security issues. Last year her many speaking engagements included the US Department of Justice Project Safe Childhood National Conference, the C3 Conference in Maryland, and a private meeting with China's Ministry of Science and Technology. She works closely with industry leaders, including corporate partnerships with Symantec, Adobe, AOL, BearingPoint, Dell, Disney, ENA, Intel, Oracle, Target, and Yahoo!.

Previous to her Internet safety efforts, she founded and directed the Mountain West String Academy, a highly successful music education program, funded through public and private grants and donations. This program still serves the elementary, junior high, and high school students of northern Utah.

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Holly Hawkins

Director of Consumer Advocacy and Privacy
AOL LLC

Holly Hawkins is the Director of Consumer Advocacy and Privacy for AOL LLC. Holly has over a decade of experience in forging best practices for AOL in the area of kids and teen protection. Holly is responsible for a wide range of consumer protection and risk management issues for AOL's brands (AOL, AIM, Netscape, CompuServe, MapQuest, MovieFone, Spinner, WinAmp, ICQ, Advertising.com) including child privacy and safety, content and community standards as well product moderation and enforcement standards. In her role as Director of Consumer Advocacy, Holly works closely with child protection and Internet Safety organizations such as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and ikeepsafe.org.

From January 2004 through September 2004, Holly served as the Director of Policy, Community and Communications for AOL UK. In that role, she influenced legislation impacting the Internet through participation in both government and industry groups. Holly participated in the Home Office Internet Task Force on Child Protection on the Internet contributing to the creation of the 'Good Practice Guidance on Chat, Instant Messaging, Web Based Services, Moderation and Safe Search.' She also participated in Internet Service Providers Association on the Child Safety, Law Enforcement, and Content Liability task force.

Holly was a speaker at the European Commission's exploratory meeting "Towards a Pan-European Code of Conduct for Internet Service Providers" where she presented AOL's self-regulatory approach to the Commission. She was a speaker at the British National Crime Squad Conference on Child Abuse on the Internet. Holly is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals as a Certified Privacy Professional.

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Adam Hildreth

Founder and President
Crisp Thinking

Adam Hildreth is recorded as the UK's youngest ever Managing Director, and, at 22, probably one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in the country. After leaving school at 16 with just a handful of GCSEs, Adam has gone on to become one of the UK's rising business stars and is already worth in the region of £10 million.

Adam is a classic entrepreneur for the 'dotcom' generation, having set up his first business at the age of 14, and has now established a new business protecting young people from on-line grooming and cyber bullying.

Adam was named the CBI's Young Entrepreneur of the Year for 2006. He won the accolade at the Growing Business Awards for his development of Crisp Thinking and its products. He was presented the award by Dragons' Den judges Duncan Bannatyne and Peter Jones at an awards ceremony compared by Rt Hon. William Hague MP.

Born in West Yorkshire, Adam inherited his work ethic from his father who, in a long career with Halifax Building Society, worked his way up from an office junior to head up the company's call centre operations.

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Natasha Jackson

Head of Content Policy
GSMA

Natasha Jackson, Head of Content Policy at the GSMA, is responsible for public policy and regulatory issues arising from mobile content services.

Natasha leads the GSMA's work on promoting responsible self-regulatory approaches to mobile content services. She was responsible for the development of a global code of practice on mobile spam and has recently developed educational toolkits for mobile operators outlining issues and good practice in the areas of age-sensitive commercial content and child protection. She also leads the GSMA's global mobile initiative against child sexual abuse content (child pornography).

Natasha has a broad telecommunications background, having worked in the sector for over 15 years. She started her career at Cable & Wireless and has worked internationally across fixed and mobile business in both blue chip and start up environments.

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Andrew Keen

Author, broadcaster and entrepreneur

Andrew Keen is a Silicon Valley author, broadcaster and entrepreneur whose provocative book Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture was recently acclaimed by The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani as "shrewdly argued" and written "with acuity and passion". Andrew is a prominent media personality who has appeared on the Colbert Report, McNeil-Lehrer Newsnight show, The Today Show, Fox News, CNN International, NPR's Weekend Edition, BBC Newsnight and many other television and radio shows in America and overseas. He has written for The Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the London Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, The Weekly Standard, Fast Company and Entertainment Weekly and has been featured in numerous publications including Time Magazine, The New York Times, US News and World Report, BusinessWeek, Wired, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times, the Independent & MSNBC.

Andrew is also a pioneering Silicon Valley media entrepreneur, having founded Audiocafe.com in 1995 and built it into a well known first generation Internet music company. He was educated at the universities of London and California.

Brian Knapp

Chief Privacy Officer; Vice President, Corporate Affairs
Loopt

Brian oversees Loopt's data privacy and security matters, regulatory and policy efforts, corporate development, and legal affairs. Loopt is a Silicon Valley-based company that has built a revolutionary "social mapping" communications service that will change the way people use mobile phones to keep in touch with their friends. The most common mobile question in the world is 'Where are you?' and Loopt answers that question.

Brian was previously an associate with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati with a focus on data privacy and intellectual property technology transactions. Prior to law school, he held senior positions in business development and marketing with such companies as Dun & Bradstreet, Barnes & Noble.com, and AllBusiness.com.

Brian has a Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration, from the College of William & Mary and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of San Francisco School of Law.

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Amanda Lenhart

Senior Research Specialist
Pew Internet & American Life Project

Amanda Lenhart is a Senior Research Specialist with the Pew Internet & American Life Project and has been with the Project since its inception in 1999. She graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College with a double major in English and Anthropology, and she earned a Masters with distinction from Georgetown University in Communications, Culture and Technology.

Amanda is the lead author of numerous Pew Internet Project reports, including Teen Content Creators and Consumers, Bloggers, Social Networking Websites and Teens, and most recently, Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks. For her research about and knowledge of youth and their use of the Internet, Amanda has testified before a congressional subcommittee, the FTC and the U.S. States Attorneys General, and presented her work at academic conferences and briefings, including one most recently at the U.S. Capitol. Amanda has been quoted in major news outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and USAToday and has been interviewed for many local, national and public radio and television programs such as Talk of the Nation, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, On the Media, CNN's On the Money, MSNBC TV, ABC-TV's Ahead of the Curve, The Exchange, Futuretense, and CBSMarketWatch, among others.

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Professor Sonia Livingstone

Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Media and Communications
London School of Economics and Political Science

Sonia Livingstone is Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is author or editor of ten books and 100+ academic articles and chapters on media audiences, children and the internet, domestic contexts of media use and media literacy. Recent books include Young People and New Media (Sage, 2002), Audiences and Publics (edited, Intellect, 2005), The Handbook of New Media (edited, with Leah Lievrouw, Sage, 2006), and Public Connection? Media Consumption and the Presumption of Attention (with Nick Couldry and Tim Markham, Palgrave, 2007).

Having recently directed the research project UK Children Go Online, for the ESRC's e-society programme, her current projects include an ESRC-funded study of the public understanding of risk and regulation and a thematic network, EU Kids Online, for the EC's Safer Internet Plus programme. She serves on the UK Home Secretary's Task Force for Child Protection on the Internet, the DCSF's Ministerial Taskforce for Home Access to Technology for Children, Ofcom's Media Literacy Research Forum, and the boards of the Internet Watch Foundation and of the Voice of the Listener and Viewer. She is currently President of the International Communication Association.

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Tim Lordan

Executive Director
Internet Education Foundation

Tim Lordan serves as executive director for the Internet Education Foundation (IEF), a non-partisan, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, dedicated to educating the public and policy makers about the potential of a decentralized global Internet to promote democracy, communications and commerce. Mr. Lordan joined the IEF in 1999 as the first permanent staff member. The IEF assists the efforts of the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee in educating Congress about the Internet and related policy issues. Mr. Lordan helps coordinate those Internet Caucus Advisory Committee initiatives as well as other public education activities regarding the Internet.

In 1999, Tim helped develop and launch the GetNetWise one-click parental empowerment resource and has since launched the State of the Net project designed to measure the success of the Internet - in cultural, socio-political and economic terms.

Since graduating from law school in 1995, Mr. Lordan has amassed a broad range of experience in law, public policy, media relations and political strategizing. Prior to joining the IEF Mr. Lordan served as deputy policy counsel for the Internet Alliance, a Washington-based industry trade association. Mr. Lordan's other posts include: Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, full-time consultant for AT&T's Law and Government Affairs Department and WGBH Educational Foundation. He is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Larry Magid

CBS News On-Air Technology Analyst

A syndicated technology columnist and broadcaster for more than two decades, Larry Magid contributes to CBS News, the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News and other media outlets. He served for 18 years as a technology columnist for the Los Angeles Times and his columns have also appeared in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, CNN.COM and numerous other newspapers and websites throughout the world. His technology reports can now be heard several times a week on CBS Network and CBS affiliates throughout the United States and daily on KCBS in San Francisco and he can be seen occasionally on CBS Evening News and local TV news stations. His columns and reviews also appear on CBSNews.com.

An Internet safety advocate, Larry is founder of SafeKids.com and SafeTeens.com and is co-director of BlogSafety.com. He is the author of Child Safety on the Information Highway and Teen Safety on the Information Highway, free booklets from National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that have helped millions of families understand how to safely navigate cyberspace. He is on the board of directors of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Larry is the author of the safety guide on the GetNetWise.Org child safety web site and a member of the advisory boards of both GetNetWise and Family Online Safety Institute. Larry's newest book is MySpace Unraveled: A parents guide to teen social networking, coauthored with Anne Collier. He is also the host of three popular web sites: PCAnswer.com, SafeKids.com and SafeTeens.com and co-director of BlogSafety.com.

Larry has a doctorate of education from the University of Massachusetts and a bachelor's degree from University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts and the Boston University School of Communications.

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Deborah Platt Majoras

Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission

Deborah Majoras' tenure as FTC Chairman has been marked by the Commission's strong efforts to protect and enhance consumer welfare. She has focused on ensuring data security and protecting consumers from emerging frauds, such as identity theft, spyware, and deceptive spam. In May 2006, she was appointed by President George W. Bush to be Co-Chair of his Identity Theft Task Force. Majoras also has focused on increasing the efficiency and transparency of the merger review process, implementing sound antitrust policy regarding intellectual property, increasing efforts to prevent anticompetitive government policies, and strengthening cooperation with consumer and competition agencies around the world. She is a vigorous proponent of empowering consumers by providing information on market risks and the benefits of a competitive marketplace.

Deborah is the recipient of the International Association of Privacy Professionals' 2007 Privacy Leadership Award and RSA's 2007 Award for Excellence in the Field of Public Policy. SC Magazine named her one of the Top Five Influential IT Security Thinkers in 2006, and Washingtonian Magazine listed her among the "100 Most Powerful Women in Washington." She is a frequent speaker on competition and consumer protection policy issues to national and international audiences.

Marian Merritt

Internet Safety Advocate
Symantec Corporation

Marian Merritt provides consumer-friendly insights into technology issues impacting families as Symantec's Internet Safety Advocate. In this role, Marian is the official spokesperson for Symantec's "Norton Connected and Protected Family Safety Initiative," which is dedicated to raising awareness of Internet safety. As part of this initiative, Symantec has partnered with Miss America 2007 Lauren Nelson, whose personal platform is protecting children online. Throughout the year, Lauren Nelson and Marian Merritt will travel across the United States to educate children, parents and educators on how to be, and how to raise, better cyber-citizens. They will also present city, state and national officials who have made outstanding advances towards keeping kids and families safe online with the Internet Keep Safe Award, an honor bestowed by iKeepSafe, a national non-profit organization.

Marian recently authored Symantec's "Family Online Safety Guide," a practical guide for parents and educators that focuses on age-specific solutions for protecting children online. She also serves as editor in chief of Symantec's Family Resource Web Site, which offers tips, resources and information on a broad array of Internet security topics. On this site, consumers can submit technology-related questions to be answered by Marian, listen to podcasts, and read columns and see photos from Marian's "Connected and Protected" tour journeys.

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Annie Mullins

Global Head of Content Standards
Vodafone

As Vodafone's Global Head of Content Standards, Annie Mullins is responsible for ensuring Vodafone's leadership in protecting users, with particular emphasis on young users in accessing new content and services.

She has been a member of the UK Home Office Child Protection and the Internet Task Force for the past 6 years, and has chaired Home Office Task Force Working Groups for the Good Practice Guidance on: Chat, Instant Messaging Service, World Wide Web; Moderation of Interactive Services; Currently the Social Networking & interactive Service Good Practice Guidance (2008).

Annie is also Head of Social Issues for Yahoo UK managing social issues and is a consultant to Virgin Mobile and EU Safety Internet Programme.

As Policy Manager for NCH (children's charity), she is responsible for children's issues, including child sexual abuse, domestic violence, trafficking, youth homelessness, children in care, criminal justice, rural poverty and Internet safety.

Annie Mullins is a lecturer at University of Warwick - Social policy & Social Work, and is a qualified social worker with over 20 years working in the public sector with responsibility for child protection investigations and therapeutic work with abused children.

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Helen Normoyle

Director of Media Literacy and Market Research
Ofcom

Helen Normoyle is Ofcom's Director of Media Literacy and Market Research, leading a team of over 30 people. Ofcom is committed to regulation which is evidence-based and driven by research. Helen is responsible for ensuring that Ofcom delivers cutting-edge strategic research and market intelligence, providing support for key decisions and projects. Helen directs Ofcom's work on media literacy and is currently leading the work on Ofcom's response to the Byron Review (a UK government initiated review into the risks to children and young people when exposed to potentially harmful or inappropriate material on the internet and video games).

Previously Helen was Director of Global Consumer Insights and Product Marketing at Motorola where she worked regularly in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia, leading Motorola's research in the areas of 2.5G, 3G, wireless internet, multi-media, mobile e-commerce, messaging and entertainment. Before that she worked for one of Europe's leading market research agencies, Infratest+GfK, based in Germany.

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Viviane Reding

European Commissioner for Information Society and Media

As Information Society and Media Commissioner, Viviane Reding has a number of important instruments at her disposal to contribute to Europe's competitiveness, including the regulatory framework for electronic communications, the regulation of audiovisual content and the EU's ICT research programme.

Before starting a professional career as a journalist for the leading newspaper in Luxembourg, the Luxemburger Wort, she obtained a doctorate in human sciences at the Sorbonne. From 1986 to 1998, she was President of the Luxembourg Union of Journalists. She started her political career in 1979, as a Member of the Luxembourg Parliament and held the following positions: President of the Social Committee, Member of the Office of the Chamber of Deputies, Member of the Benelux Parliament, and Member of the North Atlantic Assembly (leader of Christian Democrat/Conservative group). She then became leader of Luxembourg's European People's Party delegation in the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999.

Within the European Parliament, she has held positions as President of the Petitions Committee, and Vice-President of the Social Committee and the Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs Committee. From 1999 to 2004, she was appointed Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth, Media and Sport. In 2004, Commissioner Reding started a second term in the European Commission, now with the enhanced responsibility for Information Society and Media.

She has earned numerous prizes and distinctions, including the St George's Cross from the Generalitat of Catalunya; the Gold Medal of European Merit;a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Hu Chen University, Taiwan; and a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Torino.

• Commissioner Viviane Reding

Mark Ryland

Chief Technology Officer
Mpower

Mark Ryland is co-founder and CTO of Mpower Media, LLC, a technology firm providing products and services for family-oriented video and Internet content management.

From 1991 to 2000 Ryland served in a variety of technical, marketing, and management roles at Microsoft Corporation, culminating in his work from 1998 to 2000 as founder and Director of Microsoft's Standards Strategy Group. Prior to his work in standardization he worked in the Windows NT group as Lead Program Manager for COM/DCOM, as well as a Senior Technical Evangelist and Senior Architectural Engineer in Systems Marketing and Federal Sales organizations, respectively.

Mark was originally trained as a lawyer, matriculating at Boalt Hall (U.C. Berkeley) School of Law and clerking on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He was an associate at the firm of Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C., before jumping to a software career. Since leaving Microsoft, Mark has served as a technical consultant to a number of firms, served on the board of directors of several for-profit technology companies, as well as a number of non-profit educational, academic, public policy, and philanthropic groups.

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Gregory S. Smith

Author, Vice President and CIO, Information Technology
World Wildlife Fund

Gregory S. Smith, vice president for information technology and chief information officer, joined WWF in January 2001. Previously, he was with the American Association of Retired People (AARP) in Washington, D.C., where he directed software development, e-business, and business intelligence activities. Prior to joining AARP, Mr. Smith was with Sallie Mae, where he directed technology for the Corporate Finance Division and two subsidiaries, and also was a principal consultant in the Management Consulting Solutions group at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Greg is the author of How to Protect Your Children on the Internet: A Road Map for Parents and Teachers (Greenwood 2007) and Straight to the Top: Becoming a World-Class CIO (Wiley 2006). He has published several articles, including Talking at the Top of the World in CIO magazine, along with a variety of technology topics in eWeek, Optimize, Computer World and LAN Times.

He received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland at College Park and an M.S. in Business from The Johns Hopkins University, where he serves as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education, Graduate Programs.

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Denise Tayloe

Co-Founder, CEO & President
Privacy Vaults Online, Inc. d/b/a/ Privo

Denise Tayloe is Co-Founder, CEO & President of Privacy Vaults Online, Inc. d/b/a/ Privo. Denise founded Privo and created the PrivoLock™ system to fill the niche of online registration of kids and families in compliance the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Privo is an online identity verification and permission management aggregator with a proprietary software and service solution designed to protect and manage consumers' personal information. Privo strives to make the Internet a safer place for children by empowering kids with the ability to safely interact with other kids and the brands they love by providing companies with a turn-key outsourced solution that enforces "best practice" enabling them to build legally compliant and socially responsible online relationships.

Denise is a seasoned business professional and accomplished entrepreneur with several years of executive level management experience and a documented track record of success. She brings the proven ability to develop and implement practical and effective strategies to achieve profitable results and the leadership skills necessary to grow companies from small entrepreneurial environments to larger corporate entities. Ms. Tayloe has more than 14 years experience in business development, sales, finance and the development of companies innovating and providing business and technology related services.

She completed her CPA after graduating Magna Cum Laude from George Mason University with a degree in Accounting and Finance.

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Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate

Federal Communications Commission, US

Deborah Taylor Tate was nominated to the Federal Communications Commission by President George W. Bush on November 9, 2005 and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on December 21, 2005. She was sworn in as FCC Commissioner on January 3, 2006. Among her many responsibilities, Commissioner Tate serves as Chair of both the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service (Universal Service Joint Board) and the Federal-State Joint Board on Jurisdictional Separations.

Commissioner Tate has worked extensively to facilitate market based solutions to public policy issues. Drawing on her extensive experience at the state and local level, Commissioner Tate actively promotes cooperative federalism and public/private partnerships when it is time for the government to act. And, as a leading voice on issues affecting families and children, she has been at the forefront of the movement to ensure that advances in communications technologies benefit all Americans.

Consistently recognized by Tennessee Business as one of Tennessee's "Most Powerful People," Commissioner Tate has been the recipient of numerous local and state professional and nonprofit honors as well as the International Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award (Justice Sandra Day O'Conner was a previous honoree). She is invited to speak regularly at law schools, nonprofits and professional organizations across the country, seeking to inspire others through her lifelong commitment to volunteerism. She is the founder and former president of Renewal House, a recovery residence for women addicted to crack cocaine and their children, and is currently chair of board of directors of Centerstone, Tennessee's largest, and the nation's ninth largest, behavioral healthcare organization.

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Adam Thierer

Senior Fellow and Director of The Progress & Freedom Foundation's Center for Digital Media Freedom (CDMF)

As Director of the CDMF, Adam Thierer analyzes public policy developments that impact both the economic and social aspects of the media industry, with a strong focus on First Amendment issues. Prior to joining PFF in 2005, Adam spent four years at the Cato Institute as Director of Telecommunications Studies, and nine years at The Heritage Foundation as a Senior Fellow in Economic Policy. His work on communications, high-technology, and media policy has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Forbes, The Economist, Newsweek, and many other newspapers, newsletters, and journals. Adam is the author or editor of six books on diverse topics such as intellectual property, mass media regulation, parental controls technologies, Internet governance and jurisdiction, regulation of network industries, and the role of federalism within high-technology markets.

Before coming to Washington, Adam spent time in London, England at the Adam Smith Institute where he worked on reform of the British legal system. Mr. Thierer earned his B.A. in journalism and political science at Indiana University, and received his M.A. in international business management and trade theory at the University of Maryland.

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Frank Torres, III

Director of Consumer Affairs
Microsoft

Frank Torres is the Director of Consumer Affairs for the Microsoft Corporation. He also has responsibility in helping direct federal policy for the company on privacy and Internet safety issues, including spyware, phishing, identity theft, spam and child online safety.

Prior to joining Microsoft, he served as Senior Legislative Counsel in the Washington, DC consumer advocacy office of Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine.

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Rudi Vansnick

President & CEO, Internet Society Belgium, & Treasurer ISOC-ECC Barcelona, Spain

Rudi started his professional career at the Ministry of Agriculture and quickly became involved in the digitisation process of government administration. In 1988 he developed the "pharmacy computer" solution, bringing communication facilities to pharmacy distribution centres and pharmacists (in collaboration with Labo Flandria, Gent). The elaborated solution was later implemented in France, Luxemburg and Germany, with national regulations and laws incorporated for each country.

Since 2000 he has been president of the Belgian chapter of the Internet Society, an organisation focusing on the promotion of the internet for everyone. He participates in national debates with federal and regional governments on topics such as cyber criminality and security issues related to Belgian citizens. In November 2004 he became more and more involved in Internet issues and debates all around the world - in Bangladesh, Tunis, Hannover. In 2005 he became the national expert for the World Summit Awards and one of the 38 Grand Jury members from all over the world in electing the 40 best e-Content projects worldwide.

2006 saw him focusing on breaching the Digital Divide through projects in regional and European organisations. His goal: to capture the voices of the Internet user, individual as well as in an organisational environment, understanding the needs and burdens of each. He considers the most difficult hurdle to be the fact that while culture and technology are far away from each other, they should be mutually supportive.

Currently Rudi is involved in a project focusing on the ICT needs of the Social Profit and will write the ICT Whitebook for the Social Profit, with publication expected around September 2007.

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Joe Waz

Public Policy Counsel and VP for External Affairs
Comcast Corp

At Comcast, Joe Waz has primary responsibility for the company's public policy activities; oversees the company's political action committees; and works closely with the company's federal government affairs, law, state and local government relations, and public relations professionals. He serves as President of the Comcast Foundation and as Executive Director of the Comcast Corporation Political Action Committee and COMPAC-USA.

Before joining Comcast in 1994, Joe spent 11 years at The Wexler Group, a government relations and public affairs consulting firm in Washington, D.C., serving as executive vice president and general counsel. His practice included representation of a range of telecommunications and content companies and associations. He began his Washington career with Ralph Nader's Telecommunications Research and Action Center in 1979.

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Derek Wyatt MP

Member of the UK Parliament

Derek was first elected to the House of Commons for the new constituency of Sittingbourne and Sheppey in north Kent, UK, in May 1997. He was re-elected in June 2001 and again in May 2005. Before being elected as an MP, Derek was Director of The Computer Channel at BSkyB and travelled extensively throughout America from mid 1995 to research the internet and to assess its impact. On arriving at Westminster he quickly formed the All Party Internet Group and has been its chairman ever since. This year the group has concentrated on examining the issues around Digital Rights Management, and Derek attended the Internet Caucus in Washington, DC, and suggested delaying the .XXX url (which ICANN did) and re-examining security with respect to server technology.

In 2004 Derek was voted one of the top 100 internet visionaries over the past decade, and in 2006 his web site won the New Statesman New Media award for the best site for an "Elected Representative".

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