Mr. Risto Linturi

Risto Linturi is one of the world leading visionaries for Digital Cities and automated homes. He has advised industry leaders, leading politicians, mayors and ministers around the world. Many of his business concepts and ideas have spread world wide. He has been keynote speaker in World Congress on IT 2000 and plenary in World Congress on IT 2002 and several dozen other international conferences in USA, Canada, Australia, Asia and Europe. Fellow contributors have included several Presidents, Prime ministers, Nobel laureates, industry leaders and other leading opinion makers, scientists and experts.

International media about Linturi:

• Wall Street Journal: "Considered the savant of Europe's Internet technology, Linturi is visited by presidents of companies like Intel Corp."
• BBC: "A vision of the wireless world that may play a big part in our futures, in the house of the Finnish futurist Risto Linturi
• The Times: "Risto Linturi, a Finnish futurist is creating his own house of the future"
• Newsweek: "The Future is Finnish" "Linturi, master of this cyber showcase home." and "It's very egalitarian, very Finnish - and, of course Risto Linturi's idea. He has lots of them."

Mr. Alan Gilchrist
Senior Adviser, TFPL UK

Alan Gilchrist has over thirty years experience working as a consultant in information management, much of it directly or indirectly concerned with knowledge organisation. Working from a sound basis of the theory and practice of classification and thesaurus construction, he has worked in both the public and private sectors with subject specialists, information scientists and IT personnel in providing practical cost-effective solutions to the problems of information retrieval. Combined with his practical knowledge and application of a range of analytical techniques, he has based such solutions on an understanding of the business processes and information needs of the enterprises for which he has worked. Alan is a Certified Management Consultant, and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Librarians and Information Professionals. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Information Science, and continues to serve on its Editorial Board as Editor Emeritus. For the four years ending in 2003 he was External Examiner to the M.A. in Information Management course at the University of Brighton.

Dr. Najat Rochdi
Regional Coordinator



Najat has extensive experience dealing with ICT for development issues. She was Director in charge of e-Morocco, then she moved to Beirut as an UNDP ICTD policy adviser. She came back to Morocco as a Deputy Minister in charge of Small and Medium Enterprise and e-services development until she moved to Cairo. She was also closely involved in the formulation and drafting of Arab declaration of principle and platform for action as well as support to the organization of Arab ministerial meeting for the WSIS preparation.

Dr. Atef Khalifa
Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Demography
Cairo University

Dr. Atef Khalifa was born in Menufia, Egypt, and educated at Cairo University where he earned a B.Sc. in Statistics. Graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) included both a M.Sc. in Biostatistics and a Ph.D. in Demography. Following largely an academic career from 1963 until 1993, Dr. Khalifa worked as professor, Chairman of a Department, and as Vice Dean of the Institute of Statistical Studies and Research (ISSR) at Cairo University. He taught courses in various areas of statistics, demography, and research methods at undergraduate and graduate levels at institutions and universities in Egypt and other countries. Serving as principal investigator in many national as well as international research projects produced findings which have been published in books in the United States, Egypt and in reputable international scientific journals. He served as editor of the Egyptian Population and Family Planning Review and was on the editorial board of several national and international journals. He has regularly organized, chaired and participated in hundreds of scientific conferences and meetings at both national and international levels from 1971 until the present. Dr. Khalifa managed the conduct of surveys in 10 Arab countries including analysis and publication.

Dr. ORHAN ALTAN
Secretary General of ISPRS
Istanbul Technical University
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry

He served two times Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and in the period of 1994-97 he worked also as Head of the Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry. He is Member of the Turkish Chambers of Civil Engineers and Surveying Engineers, Turkish Societies for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, for Geodesy and Geophysics, for Geotechnics and Rock Mechanics. Between 1978 – 80 he worked as liaison office between ISPRS Commissions V and VII, in non-topographical applications. He is also member of the German Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and the Working Group "Close-Range Photogrammetry", Chairman of the OEEPE Working Group "Spatial Data Quality Management", invited member of the IAG Working Group IV "Applications of Geodesy to Engineering", vice-chairman of the FIG Working Group 5.3 "Cinematic and Integrated Positioning Systems" and corresponding member of the German Geodetic Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He is the initiator and co-organizer of the symposium series “Turkish – German Joint Geodetic Days” since 1995. He is also member of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Mr. Tony Caravella
Director of State Records
State Records Office of Western Australia
 

• Since March 2003 employed as the Director of State Records (and Chief Executive Officer) for the State Records Office of Western Australia. Full responsibilities for implementing recordkeeping and archives regime across the Western Australian public sector encompassing over 100,000 employees. Before this held the position of State Director with the National Archives of Australia since 1999. • Before working with National Archives of Australia worked in management positions in the following agencies over a period of approximately 23 years: • National Native Title Tribunal • National Crime Authority • Australian Securities Commission • Federal Department of Health • Department of Employment Education & Training • Commonwealth Employment Service • Australian Taxation Office