Dr Simon Batchelor is Director of Gamos Ltd, a small consultancy working with the social factors surrounding development interventions, organizational development, technology use and transfer. Simon has pioneered empowerment programmes using creative thinking in Asia and Africa and Gamos has recently applied a number of innovative techniques to understanding behavioral change among the poor. Simon’s interest in ICTs and the new technologies is very much as tools that potentially help the development process. He is also author of www.sustainableicts.org, www.ecommerceandpoverty.info and has made a significant contribution to case studies and analysis at www.infodev.org (to be published). Simon can be contacted by [email protected] and their website is at http://www.gamos.org.
Dr Dorothy Okello is Coordinator of Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) whose mission is to promote and support the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among women individuals and organizations in Uganda. Ms. Okello is also an active member of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) Women’s Networking Support Program (WNSP). For further information, please send email to [email protected] or visit the WOUGNET Web site at http://www.wougnet.org
Prof Maria Suárez Toro is co-director of FIRE - Feminist International Radio Endeavour since 1991. She is a journalist, feminist and human rights activist in local, national, regional and international arenas has reported on most UN Conferences since 1992, ranging from Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, Cairo, Beijing and Durban, and South Africa, to numerous other local, national and international conferences and events. Maria has also worked as a literacy teacher at the grassroots level in El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras in the 1970s and 1980s. She has authored several award winning publications on behalf of the FIRE, e.g. ‘ Women’s Voices on FIRE’, Anomaly Press, 2000. Most recently, Maria has co-authored a groundbreaking book entitled, “Se Vende Lindo Pais” (For Sale Lovely Country), which focuses on a controversial plan by a U.S. oil company to drill for oil off the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica, and the grassroots democratic movement organized to stop it. Maria can be contacted at [email protected] or via FIRE’s website: http://www.fire.or.cr
María de la Paz Silva is Director of VINCULART: Vinculación para el desarrollo, la cultura y la educación, an NGO devoted to promote and support non formal education programmes in rural and indigenous communities. In recent years, she has participated in the community telecentre movement not only in Mexico, but in Latin America and Caribbean region through the network http://www.telecentros.org (contact: somos@telecentro). Maria can be contact at [email protected]
Clare O’Farrell is a Communication for Development Officer in the Extension, Education and Communication Service (SDRE) FAO. [email protected]
