Eric Vyncke. Since 1997, Eric has worked as a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco in the field of security by assisting customers to deploy secure networks. Since 2005, Eric has also been active in the IPv6 area, he is notably the co-chair of the Belgian IPv6 Council and has a well-known site for monitoring IPv6 deployments: http://www.vyncke.org/ipv6status/ He is also Associate Professor at the University of Liège in Belgium. He participates in several IETF working groups related to security or to IPv6. Eric can be reached at eric@vyncke.org
Bruce Baikie. Bruce is a member of the Broadband for Good team at Inveneo as Senior Director Broadband Initiatives. He is leveraging his extensive experience in the energy and telecom industries, and 16 years at Sun Microsystems as telecom industry expert to advise on implementing solar powered ICT4D projects. His areas of expertise include: wireless networking, eco-data centers, DC telecom power systems, and solar power. Bruce has published numerous white papers and articles on green data center operations and solar power in ICT4D. His educational background includes a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University and advanced studies in International Business from the University of Wisconsin. Bruce is also a guest lecturer on solar powered ICT4D at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. During past two years, Bruce has been mentoring engineering students from Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Colorado-Boulder, San Francisco State University, and San Jose State University in ICT4D design and projects in Haiti, West Africa, and Micronesia. Bruce can be reached at bruce@green-wifi.org
Laura Hosman. Laura is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Illinois Institute of Technology. Prior to IIT, Professor Hosman held postdoctoral research fellow positions at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Southern California (USC). She graduated with a PhD in Political Economy and Public Policy from USC. Her current research focuses on the role of information and communications technology (ICT) in developing countries, particularly in terms of its potential effects on socio-cultural factors, human development, and economic growth. Her work focuses on two main areas: Public-Private Partnerships and ICT-in-education, both with a focus on the developing world. Her blog, giving insights on her fieldwork experiences, is at http://ict4dviewsfromthefield.wordpress.com
