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Daniel Bara
Director, NetGroup
I started NetGroup 2 and 1/2 years ago. Our mission was to help Argentine
SME's introduce in the new IT Society and take advantage of the Internet as a
Gateway to International Markets. To accomplish this mission we developed
Externa, The Argentine Business Gateway. We are now about to launch the same
system for Brazilian companies and we have proposals to build it for the
European Market.
For two years, we've been in touch with Argentine SME's understanding and
solving their promotional, commercial and IT problems. We are members of the
Informatics 2000 Initiative EC task force and of the G7 Global Marketplace for
SME's Project.
Homepage:
http://www.externa.com.ar or
http://www.externa.com
Eric Blot-Lefevre
President, Electronic Commerce Europe Association
Presently Treasurer of the Thomson Group, Chairman of Electronic Commerce
Europe, Eric Blot-Lefevre, after a MBA and PhD in Economics in '72-'74, started as
a trader at the IndoSuez Bank, then became treasurer, CEO and COB of several
companies. His present interest is in Business to Business EC and trends in
management of companies in the context of EC and the Euro upcoming.
Homepage: http://www.ec-europe.org
Antonello Busetto
Technical Staff of the Minister, Ministry of Industry
As you can see I work in the technical staff of the Minister and I'm the
special
advisor for the Information Society. I'm the Italian Coordinator in the G7
Pilot
Project "A Global marketplace for SMEs" as well and coordinator for the
Ministry
of Industry Policy Document "Industrial policy guidelines in the Information
systems and ecommunication sectors" that you can find at the INTERNET
address:
http://www.minindustria.it/doc_min/Eng/summary.htm
Prof.Dr. Srisakdi Charmonman
Distinquished Professor of Computer Engineering,
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
Homepage: http://www.vp-planning.au.edu/srisakdi.html
Charles P. Collins
Managing Director - International Business Network, Strategic Planning
Director, Consortium for Global Commerce.
CONSORTIUM FOR GLOBAL COMMERCE:
To co-ordinate the network of 10,000 autonomous, location specific chambers
of commerce and industry into a world-wide organisation with an integrated
total global strategy - to make the World Chambers Network the world's
leading facilitator of international commerce, a strategic alliance of four
world class organisations known as the Consortium for Global Commerce
headquartered at the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, was formed to
guide the World Chambers Network making it the largest single organisation
for the distribution of international e-commerce business to business
products and services.
CCIP - Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Paris, France - The world's largest
local chamber of commerce representing more than 275,000+ member businesses.
IBNET - International Business Network for World Commerce & Industry, Ltd. -
A U.S. operations based company run by international business executives,
with a world class team of directors and advisors.
IBCC - International Bureau of Chambers of Commerce - the World Forum of
Chambers of Commerce, a division of the ICC - International Chamber of
Commerce, the World Business Organisation based in Paris.
GMC/TIN - Global Management Centre of the G77 Chambers of Commerce Trade
Information Network, the largest regional trade network of chambers of
commerce operating under the auspices of the Conference of Chambers of
Commerce of the UN Group of 77, representing chambers of commerce in 132
emerging nations and China.
Homepage:http://www.worldchambers.net
Kathleen Foley Curley
Director of Research, Lotus Institute, Lotus Development Corp.
Dr. Curley is Director of Research at the Lotus Institute. The Institute is
focusing on Knowledge Management and how technology can be used to promote,
1) growth of electronic communities of practice 2)profiling of experts so that it is
easier to find "who knows what" 2)Distrance learning and the use of electronic media to promote education. Before joining Lotus, Dr. Curley was a professor at
Northeastern University in the Management Information Systems area with a
research focus in the use of information systems to gain competitive advantage,
and the implementation of expert systems.
Richard B. Dasher
Director, US-Japan Technology Management Center, Stanford University
Richard Dasher is Director of the US-Japan Technology Management Center and
Acting Associate Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford University.
Dr. Dasher coordinates research projects involving Stanford faculty in various
departments of the university in regard to topics in international technology
management and technology trends analysis. The US-Japan Technology
Management Center is also active in Internet World-Wide Web development; it
has launched several heavily used Web sites, including the "Stanford J-Guide to
Japan Information Resources"
Dr. Dasher's background includes experience on the boards of directors of two
Japanese companies and four years as Director of the U.S. State Department's
Foreign Service Institute field schools in Yokohama and Seoul, which provide
advanced full-time training to U.S. and selected Commonwealth country
diplomats in the languages and current affairs of Japan and Korea. He is fluent
in Japanese.
Homepage:
http://fuji.stanford.edu/JGUIDE
Ronald B. Epstein
Consultant, World Info/Mart, and Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)
In a work career which has spanned nearly 55 years, the central thrust has been
the development of community based businesses primarily in the health delivery
sector, but more recently assisting in the establishment of information and
communication networks of centers in economically developing societies.
Charlie Firestone
Director, Communications and Society Program, and Interim
Executive Vice President, The Aspen Institute
I direct a policy program that considers the impact of the communications and
information sectors on democractic institutions and values. My background is
over 25 years as a communications lawyer in the US specializing in electronic
media, telecommunications, and information policy. Among the reports of the
Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program that I have edited or
authored are Elections and Cyberspace; Creating a Learning Society; Television
and Elections; and Toward an Information Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.
I have also authored a paper on "The New Intermediaries" and several other
article,
http://www.aspeninst.org/dir/polpro/CSP/C%26S1.html
Homepage: http://www.aspeninst.org/
Michael Hauben
Author and Internet Researcher, Teachers College of Columbia
University
Michael Hauben has participated in online communities since the early 1980s.
He has worked at the University of Detroit/Mercy, Columbia University and Ziff
Davis Inc. helping people use and understand computers. He is a graduate of
Columbia University with a BA in Computer Science and MA in Communications.
Through his pioneering interactive online research, Michael coined and
introduced the term "Netizen" into popular use. The book he co-wrote, "Netizens:
On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet" was published by the
IEEE Computer Society Press in May 1997 and appeared in October 1997 in a
Japanese translation published by Chuo Koron Sha. He is frequently consulted to
comment on the growing importance of this new democratic medium. He has
given talks in the United States, Japan, Canada and Greece about the social
significance and history of the Internet. He hopes to help present the importance
of making Internet access universal.
Ronda Hauben
Researcher and Writer, Amateur Computerist
I have been involved with computers, computer education and computer
networks for several years. I have presented talks on the history of computers and
computer networks and have written extensively on computer history and the
history of technology. I taught computer programming at the Dearborn Engine
Plant from 1984 to 1987. Before that I taught at Stillman College in Alabama and
Wheelock College in Massachusetts. And I have taught introduction to the
Internet and Unix introductory sessions at Columbia University in New York
City.
I am one of the founding editors of the Amateur Computerist newsletter which
now circulates online. I am co author of "Netizens: On the History and Impact of
Usenet and the Internet" an anthology of articles about the history and impact of
the Global Computer Network that has been available in draft form online via ftp,
gopher and www. The book has now been published in a print edition by the
IEEE Computer Society Press and has been published in a Japanese translation
by Chuo Koron Sha.
R. M. "Chick" Hayden
Director, ANSI/IISP(American National Standards
Institute, Information Infrastructure Standards Panel)
I am Director of the Information Infrastructure Standards Panel (IISP),
sponsored by the American National Standards Institute in the U.S. The role of
IISP is to identify standards critical to the implementation of the GII. To date,
IISP has identified 168 Standards Needs, and they are documented on the web
page below. While individual industries have standards programs focused on their
respective areas, IISP's focus is both cross-industry (computer, telecommunications,
cable, broadcast, satellite, etc.) and international (liaisons and participation from
international standards groups) as the appropriate scope for GII standards efforts.
Homepage:http://www.ansi.org/iisp/
Wolfgang Hennes
Dipl. Kfm, Hennes & Partner, Information Broking
Business administrator Wolfgang Hennes is Information Broker and owner of
the business research service Hennes & Partner, Bonn. After he studied business
administration at the Freie Universitaet Berlin he was technological counsellor at
the Hans-Boeckler-Stiftung, counsellor for organisation at Siemens-Nixdorf-
Informationssysteme AG and scientific assistant at the study commission "Future
of the media - Germanys road to the information society" from the German
Bundestag. Since 1996 he is lecturer for media management in firms and media
companies at the Bauhaus University Weimar and project manager of the
initiative "West African Internet (WAIN" supported by the study commission
"Future of the media Germanys road to the information society" and the commitee
for foreign affairs of the German Bundestag under the auspices of Dieter
Weirich, Director of Deutsche Welle, Cologne.
Homepage: http://www.hennes.net
John H. Hine
Professor of Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington
I was primarily responsible for the introduction of the Internet into New
Zealand in 1985 and have been involved with its development ever since.
I completed a UNESCO contract looking at the requirements to introduce the
Internet into the developing countries of SE Asia and the Pacific (1992-93).
I'm currently a council member of the Internet Society of New Zealand with
responsibility for DNS policies. I was program chair of INET'97 held in
Kuala Lumpur and have been on the program committee of three other INET
conferences.
Homepage:
http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~hine
Thomas Kalil
Senior Director, White House National Economic Council
Currently working for the White House on issues related to information,
communications and other high-tech issues -- such as the President's Educational
Technology Initiative, the Next Generation Internet, tax incentives for private
sector R&D, government support of R&D, deployment of broadband services to
the home, and access to the Net for people with disabilities. Very interested in
the power of the Net to "leverage the small efforts of the many".
Member of IEEE, ACM, Internet Society, and Council on Foreign Relations.
Homepage: http://nii.nist.gov/cyber/cyber.html
Bruno Lanvin
World Coordinator, Global Trade Point Network, United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development
World Coordinator, UN Global Trade Point Network (an e-commerce network
active in over 100 countries) - check web site below Deputy Executive Secretary of
the United Nations International Symposium on Trade Efficiency (UNISTE)
Chairman, Telecom Interactive (1997) Head, Small and Medium-Sized
enterprises Trade Competitiveness, UNCTAD (Geneva, Switzerland) General
Manager, GET UP (Global Electronic Trade UN Partnership)
Homepages: http://www.lanvin-global.com,http://www.unicc.org/untpdchttp or http://www.unicc.org/unctad/en/special/p4dlead.htm
Ken Lyon
Vice President & Information Services Director, UPS Worldwide Logistics
He is responsible for the development and operation of
Information Services and this includes the WWL operations within Europe and
Asia. He joined UPS in 1991 and has been with the Logistics organisation
since it was founded in 1995.
Prior to this he has owned and managed software companies that operated in the areas of Electronic Trading and EDI.
Ken is also known for his often controversial views as to how organisations need to embrace radical change in order to extract maximum value from their IT investments. However these views have been formed from his broad experience in the development and establishment of electronic trading links between supplier and buyer often predicting the shift towards the burgeoning virtual communities now being established on the much hyped 'information superhighway'.
How companies capture the data required to establish and maintain a trading relationship and the available low cost mechanisms for transforming and transporting the data for commercial advantage are topics with which he is particularly familiar. Much of this knowledge was gained with a software development company he cofounded specifically to exploit these areas.
He has also acted as a strategic consultant to a select group of private clients including several multi-nationals and government agencies helping them understand the impact of technology on this sector of industry.
He has presented papers at several conferences on the subject of Electronic Business and published various articles on the subject over the past 12 years.
Mike Nelson
Director, Technology Policy, Federal Communications Commission
Mike Nelson works on the interface between technology and
policy-making, helping regulators understand technology and technologists
understand regulation. The issues he is working on include determining
how to improve the reliability and security of the nation's
telecommunications networks, how computing and communications are
converging, and how FCC policies can spur development and
deployment of new technologies.
Prior to joining the FCC in January, 1997, Nelson was Special Assistant
for Information Technology at the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy where he worked with the President's Science
Advisor, Jack Gibbons, and with Vice President Gore on a range of
issues relating to the Global Information Infrastructure, including
telecommunications policy, information technology, electronic commerce,
and information policy.
Dr. Nelson has a B.S. from Caltech and a Ph.D. from M.I.T.
Homepage:http://www.fcc.gov
Marja Erola
Director, Technology Development Centre Tekes
Programme Manager at Tekes. Chair of the OECD Working Party on the
Information Economy. - The Conference "Dismantling the Barriers to Global
Electronic Commerce" (19.-21. Nov. 1997) was held in Turku, Finland.
(please see the webcasting from:http://www.turku.eu.net )
Harris N. Miller
President, Information Technology Association of America
(ITAA) and World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA)
I have the privilege of heading the largest and oldest United States information
technology association--ITAA--representing companies involved in software,
services, telecommunications, Internet, electronic commerce, Year 2000, and
outsourcing. Our 11,000 companies are intensely interested in all aspects of IT
global issues. I also serve as WITSA President, an association of associations
from 28 countries from around the world. ITAA will have the 1998 World Congress
on Information Technology, June 21-24, 1998, in Fairfax County, VA, near
Washington, DC. ITAA also serves as the secretariat for the Global Internet
Project (GIP).
Mock, Pak-Lum
CEO, 1-Net Singapore Pte Ltd
1-Net operates the nationwide ATM backbone in Singapore supporting the
Singapore ONE initiative.
Homepage:http://1-net.com.sg
Kaoru Morisita
Staff Writer, The Nikkei Weekly, Nihon Keizai Shimbun,. Inc.
I'm a staff high-tech industry reporter for the Nikkei Weekly.
Jane Smith Patterson
Senior Advisor to the Governor for Science & Technology
Chair of Working Group on Information Infrastructure of the US Innovation
Partnership. (Partnership between the White House and National Governor's
Association, State of North Carolina)
I have been involved with issues and applications of information infrastructure
for many years both as a consultant, a government official, a vice-chancellor of a
university, and a vice president of an international network systems group of a
major multinational corporation. I served on the US Information Infrastructure
Advisory Council and was a megaproject cochair of the Applications area. Last
year, I received from the National Academy of Public Administration and the
Alliance for Redesigning Government their Public Innovator Award for 1997 for
my work both nationally and internationally in the use of information technology
to redesign the work of government, education and industry.
Homepage:http://gov.state.nc.us/connectnc
Bill Poulos
Director, Electronic Commerce Policy EDS Office of Government
Affairs
Howard Rheingold
Author of "The Virtual Community"
I wrote Tools for Thought, Virtual Reality, The Virtual Community, and was the
founding executive editor of HotWired, and founder of Electric Minds.
Homepage:http://www.rheingold.com
Jeffrey B. Ritter
Director, ECLIPS (an academic research program on the laws
and policies for electronic commerce)
Mr. Ritter has been an active participant in shaping the legal infrastructure for
global electronic commerce for nearly ten years. Previously, he served (1990-96)
as a Co-Rapporteur on Legal Questions to the United Nations' efforts at
establishing standards for electronic commerce and facilitating international
trade. He has represented the UN Economic Commission for Europe in
proceedings of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law to
establish a model national law for electronic commerce. He has participated as
an advisor and presenter to UNESCO, the OECD, the ICC, the World Bank and
the Global Information Infrastructure Commission and serves on the Conference
Committee of the Pacific Telecommunications Council. Previously, he served as
the Organizing Chair of the Internet Law and Policy Forum, a global organization
facilitating self-governance of electronic commercial practices.
Mr. Ritter is the Director of ECLIPS, an academic research center on the laws
and policies governing electronic commerce and cyberspace. ECLIPS is funded
by the United States government, state governments and the private sector to
conduct research and develop recommendations for structuring the legal and
policy framework for electronic commercial practices. He serves as the chair of
the American Bar Association Committee on the Law of Commerce in Cyberspace,
which actively advances projects for the legal facilitation of electronic commerce
across the venues of electronic banking, interactive services, information
infrastructure, international transactions and uniform domestic laws. He is
active in the development of uniform law for on-line transactions, software
licensing and government's use of information technologies.
Homepage:http://www.osc.edu/eclips
Daniel Salcedo
Executive Director, PEOPLink
Daniel Salcedo is founder and Executive Director of PEOPLink, a non-profit
organization training and equipping grass roots artisans all over the world to use
digital cameras and the Internet to market their products while showcasing
their cultural richness. PEOPLink is forming network of Partner Organizations,
currently in 14 countries, providing marketing and design services to thousands
of very poor, mostly women artisans.
Homepage: http://www.peoplink.org
Wolfgang Schlump
Science Couselor, German Embassy Washington, D.C.,
USA
web site of the embassy: http://www.germany-info.org
Brian Subirana
Assistant Professor, IESE International Graduate School of
Management
Prof. Brian Subirana researches the emerging business models of companies
operating in the converging information industries. He is particularly interested
in the study of the Internet as it represents a magnifying glass reflecting the
industry convergence and transformation process enabled by the new multimedia
infrastructures and information technologies. He has researched convergence in
industries such as banking, insurance, publishing, learning, advertising, business
information, electronic commerce, media and entertainment. In particular, he is
concerned with the ellucidation of infrastructures that enable virtual spaces for
learning and new organizational forms. He has authored numerous articles and
business cases.
Prof. Subirana holds a PhD in computer science from the M.I.T. Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory, 1992 and an MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School of
Management, 1993.
Homepage:http://web.iese.es/subirana
Odgerel Ulziihutag
Officer, Communications Dept., Ministry of Infrastructure
Development, Mongolia
The Communications Department is a government organization, the principal
function of which is to supervise and develop strategies and plans for info-
telecommunications sector development, regulatory policies. At the
Communication Department, I am involved in the formulation of
telecommunications sector and information technology strategies as well as
legislation policy in the above mentioned areas.
Tatsuo Tanaka
Visiting Research Fellow, Columbia University
Tatsuo Tanaka is a research fellow of Center for Global Communications(GLOCOM) which is a leading research institute in Japan on information and telecommunication innovation and its impact on society. He graduated a department of economics of the graduate school of Tokyo University, and has studied the relation between technological change and industrial organization. Recently he focuses on economic aspect of rapid innovation in telecommunication,especially the Internet. He is now a visiting research fellow of Columbia University.His e-mail address is tatsuo@glocom.ac.jp.
His paper on the Internet and the telecommunication available on the WWW.
"Is Usage-Based Pricing Inevitable?" 1994,
"Possible economic consequences of Digital Cash", 1996
"A policy proposal on interconnectivity in Japan's telecommunication
industry" 1996
Akihito Nohara
Born in 1963, graduated from Keio University in 1987, and joined IBJ. I am
responsible for reserching the Telecom Industry. My current task is to
research the current situation of Asian Telecom Industry from last year.
Takuji Ogawa
Mr. Ogawa, an MBA from University of Chicago, is currently working for
Mitsui, one of the major Japanese trading houses, on issues related to
network and database within group companies, open-EDI and global EC
projects like BOLERO and EDEN. Before his current assignment, he was
involved with corporate consolidation processing, US GAAP filing and
annual report preparation for years at Mitsui.
Robert Hettinga
Robert Hettinga writes about and promotes financial cryptography in a world
of increasingly ubiquitous geodesic public networks and their combined
effects on business, the economy and society.
An incorrigible neolog, he
was the first person to trot out blurbs like "financial cryptography",
"digital bearer certificates", "digital commerce *is* financial
cryptography", "Moore's Law is an information surfactant", "picomoney as
processor food", "micromoney mitochondria", and, of course, "ubiquitous
geodesic public networks", (though the concept of the geodesic network
comes from Peter Huber, who, of course, got the word "geodesic" from R.
Buckminster Fuller).
In 1995, Mr. Hettinga founded the Digital Commerce Society of Boston
and the e$/e$pam lists and
home page http://www.shipwright.com/. In 1996, he founded the Mac-Crypto
Conference http://www.vmeng.com/mc/with Vinnie Moscaritolo. In 1997,
with Vince Cate and Ray Hirschfeld, he founded the First International
Conference on Financial Cryptography (FC97) http://www.fc98.ai/.
This year, with 3 associates in the cryptography and financial technology
business, he's starting up the Financial Cryptography Development
Partnership, which will invest in zero-stage product development for
peer-to-peer internet transaction technology. He's trying to write a book,
which he hopes to finish sometime late in 1999. The working title is, "The
End of Civilization: Life in a Geodesic Society".
Mr. Hettinga and his work in promoting financial cryptography have been the
subject of articles and television and radio programs in places like the
New York Times, the Financial Times, Wired, NHK Japan, Institutional
Investor, Telerate's customer magazine, and the TalkAmerica radio network.
He collaborated with Josh McHugh in what became the financial cryptography
cover story in the September 8, 1997 issue of Forbes.
For HotWired's
BrainTennis page, he debated the end of book-entry transaction settlement
with Kawika Daguio of the American Banking Association. He has spoken at
Internet World, MacWorld, and the Office of Technology Assessment's Digital
Money conferences. He also writes rants on the net which occasionally get
sold to places like InfoWorld, Wired, ACM's NetWorker, MacTech, and
NetProfessional magazines, and to Time-Warner's Pathfinder site. One of his
rants is being translated for Russian publication. He is an editor of, or
sits on the editorial board of, several electronic publications, including
the Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce and Esther Dyson's First
Monday.
Ernest Wilson
Dr. Ernest J. Wilson III writes extensively on the information
revolution and developing countries. Currently Director of the Center
for International Development and Conflict Management at the
University of Maryland, and Senior Advisor, Global Information
Infrastructure Commission (GIIC), he has worked on IT issues at the
White House (Director, International Programs and Resources, NSC);
as head of the policy and planning unit of the US Information Agency,
and as Deputy Director of the GIIC. Dr. Wilson consults frequently
on IT and development, including for the World Bank, the Economic
Commission for Africa, the UN, and private clients. He is the
author of THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION COMES TO AFRICA (CSIS, 1996),
"Forecasting the Future of IT and Developing Countries" (FUTURES,
1998), and is co-editor of NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
INITIATIVES (MIT, 1997)
He recently lectured on and researched
this topic in Asia for his forthcoming book on IT and developing
countries. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the
Overseas Development Council, a fellow of the Center for Global
Communications (Japan), and is active with the Institute for
International Communications (UK).
Izumi Aizu
Principal, Asia Network Research Sdn. Bhd. Manager, Research & Planning , Institute for HyperNetwork Society Research Fellow, GLOCOM (Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan)
Born in 1952, Mr. Aizu joined printing industry in 1971 after graduating
from high school. He moved into the international advertising, marketing and
public relations business and obtained experiences and expertise in
intercultural communications. After spending a few years in technical
communications business to help ordinary users use and understand the
computer manuals, he became free-lance in 1985. He then encountered with the
personal computer networking and its early pioneers in the United States. In
1986, he became one of the founders of Institute for Networking Design in
Tokyo, a small think-tank for online communications specializing computer
conferencing and served as Secretary General of Networking Forum, an annual
conference of PC networking in Japan from 1987 to 1992.
In 1990, he organized first HyperNetwork Conference in Oita to anticipate
the new generation of network society. In 1991, he joined GLOCOM (Center for
Global Communications), at the International University of Japan, as Planing
Manager, and in 1993 he joined the newly established Institute for Hyper
Network Society (IHNS) as Research Director. IHNS has its main office in
Oita, a local city in Kyushu Island, and is actively involved in building
the community networking with grassroots citizens as well as local
government of Oita under the Governor Morihiko's strong leadership towards
building the information society.
From around 1992, he started to study and promote Internetworking in
Japan, giving strategic advises to Japanese telecommunications companies
such as NTT and other private companies in information and media industry,
and national and local government people.
In 1997, he moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and founded Asia Network
Research Sdn. Bhd., an independent firm dedicated to the research of
computer networking in Asia-Pacific region. ANR focuses on societal aspects
of Internet and its use, ranging from legal, regulatory and policy issues to
business strategy, to cultural influence and value issues and technological
evolutions. ANR is currently carrying out Asia Internet Study - a membership
program to study the current state of development of Internet and related
national projects in most Asian countries such as Multimedia Super Corridor
(MSC) in Malaysia and Singapore ONE.
He has been member of study groups on computer networks and informatization
at Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, (MITI) Ministry of
Post and Telecommunications (MPT) and other government agencies.
His publications include:
"The Report on Personal Computer Networking in US" (1985)
"PC Network Revolution" (1986)
"Evolutionary Network" (1994)
"Easy Steps to Internet Business" (1996)
Amelia H. Boss
Profession of Law, Temple University
Amelia H. Boss, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Rutgers Camden Law
School, is a Professor of Law at Temple University School of Law, where
she teaches in the commercial law, bankruptcy and electronic commerce areas.
Professor Boss is a leading participant in the emerging area of electronic
commerce. In the late 1980's, she chaired a group within the American Bar
Association's Section of Business Law that did pioneering work in the area,
culminating in two work products. The first was the publication of the two
works, The Commercial Use of Electronic Data Interchange: A Report, 45
Business Lawyer 1645-1716 (1990), for which Professor Boss served as the
co-reporter, ant The Model Form of Electronic Data Interchange Trading
Partner Agreement and Commentary (American Bar Association 1989) (with M.
Baum, T. McCarthy, P. Otero and J. Ritter), republished in 45 Business
Lawyer 1717-1749 (1990). The second work product was a report calling for
statutory treatment of contracts for the licensing and sale of software,
which eventually led to the drafting of a new Article 2B to the Uniform
Commercial Code. [The group which she chaired has grown to include almost
2,000 people. A report prepared on the group's last working group meeting
in January 1998 is attached to this memo to illustrate the breadth of the
issues which have been undertaken.]
Writing and lecturing extensively in the area of electronic commerce both
domestically and internationally, Professor Boss proceeded to author the
definitive book on the use of trading partner agreements in the business
implementation of electronic data interchange (or EDI): Electronic Data
Interchange Agreements: A Guide and Source Book (International Chamber of
Commerce 1993). She was selected to serve as the US delegate to the United
Nations Commission on International Trade Law [UNCITRAL], representing the
US on issues relating to electronic commerce. She represented the US in
the development of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce, and is
now representing the US in UNCITRAL work on digital signatures. In
addition, she has served as an expert to the UNCITRAL Secretariat on such
electronic commerce matters.
Domestically, Professor Boss has been at the forefront of activities to
revise the commercial laws of the United States to accommodate electronic
commercial practices. She represents the American Law Institute on a
drafting committee revising the Uniform Commercial Code to cover software
contracting and information licensing. She serves as the ALI
representative on other committees considering electronic issues: the
drafting committee revising the law of sales, and the drafting committee
revising general provisions of commercial law. She also serves as the
Advisor (representing the American Bar Association) to a Drafting Committee
devising a Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. From 1993-1997 she served
as Editor-in-Chief of The DataLaw Report (published bi-monthly by Clark
Boardman Callaghan).
Professor Boss's expertise in electronic commerce builds on her strengths
in the area of commercial law. She is a member of the Permanent Editorial
Board of the Uniform Commercial Code, and the former chair of the Uniform
Commercial Code Committee of the American Bar Association. She serves as
the American Law Institute member of the Drafting Committee to revise
Article 2 of the UCC on sales, of the Drafting Committee on the new Article
2B on licensing of software, and of the Drafting Committee to revise
Article 1 on general provisions. In the past, she served as an
advisor/observer to the revisions on Article 5 (letters of credit) and
Article 8 (investment securities). She is a member of the American Law
Institute, and served on the Members Consultative Group on the Restatement
of the Law of Suretyship. Professor Boss is a member of the Council of the
Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association, and will assume
the role of secretary of the section in August. She is member and former
fellow of the American College of Commercial Financial Lawyers, and is a
member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of International
Commercial Law. She served as the editor of a series of books on the ABC's
of the UCC, published by the American Bar Association. She is also on the
editorial board of The EDI Law Review and the Journal of Bankruptcy Law and
Policy, and is the editor of the new book series, ABCs of the UCC,
published by the American Bar Association.
Professor Boss's accomplishments have earned her many honors. In 1996,
she was awarded the "Glass Cutter Award" by the American Bar Association
Section of Business Law. That award is given to "a woman who has cut
through barriers to earn high accomplishments in the area of business law."
She was an advisor to the White House in the formulation of its policies
on electronic commerce. She was named a Fellow of the American Bar
Foundation. Most recently, she was named the Leo Goodwin Distinguished
Visiting Professor of Law at Nova University School of Law. In 1997,
Professor Boss was named Secretary of the Business Law Section of the
American Bar Association, which has over 55,000 members. In August of
1998, she becomes Editor-in-Chief of The Business Lawyer and Vice-Chair of
the Business Law Section. In 1999, she becomes Chair-Elect, and in 2000,
the Chair of the Business Law Section.
Shigeaki Horikoshi
Manager, Business Development
New Business Planning
Nihon Unisys, Ltd.
I joined Nihon Unisys after graduation of Chuo University(LL.B.).
Trained as a systems engineer, and engaged in several financial system
development projects. In 1990 chosen as an overseas study student and studied
at Carnegie Mellon's Business School.
My current responsibilities are business development for electronic commerce
systems and participattion in the inudustry consortia such as Electronic
Commerce Promotion Council of Japan(ECOM).
Affiliations: The Law and Computers Association of Japan.
Adnan Hassan
Dr., Director, Information Technologies, World Bank
Mr. Hassan is global coordinator of the World Bank's Internet Communities Project, a pilot to test a new methodology for international electronic commerce and information exchange using Internet-based infrastructure. Since 1993, Mr. Hassan has played a critical role in the creation and launch of the highly successful World Bank Group IPAnet initiative (www.ipanet.net) and contributed extensively to the World Bank's emerging role as a technology-savvy Knowledge Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Hassan was with Citibank and a prinicipal in a private consulting firm. Mr. Hassan has studied at Harvard Business School, Johns Hopkins University and Reed College. He has spoken on Internet-related issues in over 35 countries, including key-note addresses to Asian audiences in 5 countries as part of Sun Microsystems Financial Sector Summits. He has been featured in a variety of international media, including CNBC, Asian Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Latin Finance, Journal of Commerce, etc.
Diana Sharpe
Barrister, Telecommunications
I am Special Advisor in Technology and Communications Law to Dibb Lupton
Alsop, the U.K,s seventh biggest law firm with 50 lawyers in the
Communications and Technology Division. Prior to joining this firm I
worked solely in the Asia/Pacific region, based in both Singapore and
Sydney. Activities included involvement with the GIIC and the Internet
Law and Policy Forum. I am Vice President of the Pacific
Telecommunications Council and Vice Chair (Asia Pacific) of the
International Telecommunications Users Group which will be discussing the
impications of Global and National information Infrastructures at its
forthcoming meeting in Brussels (Feb10/12) I was Chairman of the EDI
Council of Australia (now Electronic Commerce Australia) and have
published widely on the laws and regulations governing international
trade and economies in the dynamically changing electronic business
environment (including computer crime)
I am part of the Australian delegation to APECTel which is currently
addressing the need for a harmonised regional appoach to the Internet and
E-Commerce generally. Tel 17 will take place in Brunei in early March.
Paul H. Timmers
European Commission, DGIII-Industry
Paul Timmers is working in the European Commission, DGIII-Industry. He is actively involved in electronic commerce technology programmes supported by the European Commission and in policy definition in electronic commerce. Secretary to the G7 Global Marketplace for SMEs, an international collaboration of about 15 countries and international organisations to promote electronic commerce for small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Web site:http://www.ispo.cec.be/Ecommerce
Leigh Baker
Senior Director in the Global Communications Industry
Business Unit of Oracle Corporation.
He is responsible for business strategy,business development and industry solutions for the Asia Pacific Region and is responsible also for a number of global projects.
He brings to this role extensive telecommunications industry experience
spanning more than 30 years, including military radio operation and
instruction; multi-country satellite system operation and management;
telecoms solution design, construction, delivery and operation; marketing and
management of value-added services; development and management of a joint
business with a major telecom; strategic consulting for a major
telecommunications service provider and strategic consulting to a major
Asian conglomerate and an Asian Government.
In his 15 years in the public sector, Mr. Baker's management and consulting
experience included: membership of the top management team of a university,
a Pan-Pacific satellite system, an army regiment and a Rotary Club;
consultancy assignments with various governments and international agencies;
intelligence
officer; publication of 1 book plus numerous encyclopedia and journal articles published in a number of countries.
Mr. Baker's qualifications include: a Master of Business Administration from the University of Aston in Birmingham (UK); a Master of Philosophy from the Papua New Guinea University of Technology: a Diploma of General Studies from the Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne; and a Company Director's Diploma from the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the University of New England.
He is a member of the Board of the Pacific Telecommunications Council and a
member of the Governing Council of Deakin University.
Married with two adult children, Mr. Baker?s hobbies include bushwalking,
trekking and travelling in remote areas of Asia and the Pacific, and reading.
Yoichi Tsuji
Teacher of English at Tezukayama Gakuin Izumigaoka High School
Executive Director of AGENE (Association of Global Electronic
Networking Educators) since 1991
Committee Member of My Town Map Councour since 1997
I have the privilege of contacting active practitioners for
education in technology across the world as executive director
of AGENE. inviting such educators as Yvonne Andres of Global
Schoolnet Foundation, Connie Stout of Texas Education Network
and Odd de Presno of KIDLINK among others. In the 1997 annual
conference, 23 educators from across the world were invited to
Kobe to discuss and further the global link and online projects.
My vision has been to promote telecommunication in education
in this country, which led us to establish AGENE.
As school teacher, I have been involved with Japan-Korea e-mail
link with Jeung Eui Girls' High School in Seoul since 1991 and
have been experimenting/using CU-SeeMe conferencing system with
Shin Jung Girls' Commercial High School and senior staves of
Telecommunication Department of D.O.E. of Hawaii since 1997.
I have been a coordinator of global projects of CEC (Center for
Educational Computing) for the last couple of years, linking the
Asia Pacific countries for students' exchange.
Author of two books on telecommunication in education,
co-authored two books.
Web site: http://202.249.80.2/infomad/
David Lytel
Managing Sherpa, Sherpa Consulting Group, Washington DC
I served as an advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology
Policy during the first Clinton Administration, where I worked on
commercialization and privatization of the Internet. I was also
co-developer and managing editor of the White House Web site. I now run
Sherpa Consulting Group, which provides online business development
strategies for corporate and non-profit clients, who have included Sony
and ASCII Corporation in Japan, and America Online, CyberCash, and the
Aspen Institute among others in the U.S. I also teach Internet History,
Law and Policy at Georgetown University. The syllabus may be found at:
http://www.georgetown.edu/grad/CCT/courses/lyteldavies.html. And I am a
columnist for Upside magazine and wrote the February cover story about
Microsoft's dispute with the U.S. Department of Justice, in two parts:
http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=349ee2b70
http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=349ef26c0
Web site:http://www.sherpa.org (business)
http://www.lytel.com (personal)
Anthony M. Rutkowski
Director,Center for Next Generation Internet
A well-known leader and strategic analyst in the Internet,telecom, and law & policy fields.
Web site: http://www.chaos.com/rutkowski.html
Michael R. Nelson
Director, Technology Policy, Federal Communications Commission
Mike Nelson works on the interface between technology and
policy-making, helping regulators understand technology and technologist
understand regulation. The issues he is working on include determining
how to improve the reliability and security of the nation's
telecommunications networks, how computing and communications are
converging, and how FCC policies can spur development and
deployment of new technologies.
Prior to joining the FCC in January, 1997, Nelson was Special Assistant
for Information Technology at the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy where he worked with the President's Science
Advisor, Jack Gibbons, and with Vice President Gore on a range of
issues relating to the Global Information Infrastructure, including
telecommunications policy, information technology, electronic commerce,
and information policy.
Dr. Nelson has a B.S. from Caltech and a Ph.D. from M.I.T.
I don't have a personal Web site, but the FCC Web
home page can be found at http://www.fcc.gov
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