IGF 2017 WS #71 How devices, content & innovative business models shape our digital future: creativity with purpose

Anna Orlova, Researcher, São Paulo State University (UNESP): Anna graduated from the Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia with MA in psychology and sociology. At the moment Anna is doing academic research with focus on community connectivity and youth engagement and participation in Internet Governance processes. From 2016 she is working as an external researcher in the Fonias Juruá academic research project at the São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil, where she is also a project coordinator of FRIDA grant for the sub-project Amazon Digital Radio Network using HF radio band. She's been involved into Internet Governance for the last seven years, working as a researcher and facilitator with various European NGOs and youth organisations, focusing on issues of digital privacy, digital activism, open source, cybersecurity and most recently youth participation in IG. Anna is also volunteering as a researcher and facilitator of digital-x working group at the Cooperation and Development Network - Eastern Europe (http://cdnee.org).

Carlos Rey-Moreno, Post-Doctoral fellow, University of the Western Cape. Post-Doctoral fellow, University of the Western Cape. Dr. Carlos Rey-Moreno is a Post-Doctoral fellow in the Computer Science Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He received his PhD at Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC, Spain) in 2015. From 2007 to 2011, he was a researcher at the EHAS foundation and URJC, working on the field of rural broadband telemedicine networks for developing countries, participating in the design and implementation of long distance Wi-Fi networks in Spain, Peru and Malawi. Since 2012, he is with the BANG group at UWC. He has been instrumental in the co-creation of Zenzeleni Networks – Mankosi, a telecommunications co-operative in one of the most disadvantaged areas of South Africa, whose sustainability plan has been main focus on his PhD, and has participated as a facilitator in Connecting Eenhana, a community network in the north of Namibia.

Steve Song (NSRC) is an advocate for cheaper, more pervasive access to communication infrastructure in Africa. He is the founder of Village Telco, a social enterprise that builds low-cost WiFi mesh VoIP technologies to deliver affordable voice and Internet service in underserviced areas. Previously, Steve worked at the International Development Research Centre, where he led the organization's Information and Communication Technology for Development program in Africa, funding research into the transformational potential of ICTs across the continent. With NSRC Steve works to develop strategies for expanding the utilization of wireless technologies through unlicensed, dynamic and shared spectrum strategies to enable more Internet access in Africa and other emerging market regions. He writes about affordable access at http://manypossibilities.net.

Jochai Ben-Avie (Mozilla) is the Internet Policy Manager at Mozilla where he works on a range of global issues as diverse as the Internet. Before Mozilla, he lead the Policy Team at Access (AccessNow.org) an international organization that defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk around the world. Jochai is a member of the Freedom Online Coalition's Working Group 1 on an Internet Open and Secure and has previously served on the steering committee of the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance. Prior to his time at Access, he researched terrorism and reconciliation as part of Dr. Kathleen Malley-Morrison’s Personal And Institutional Rights to Aggression Study (PAIRTAS). Jochai graduated summa cum laude from Bard College at Simon’s Rock with a BA in Political Science and Social Psychology.