7. About the contributors

Wietse Bruinsma works at the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) as country manager for Ecuador and as project manager for IICD’s livelihoods programme in Bolivia. His background is on indigenous knowledge systems and management of agricultural information. In addition, he has experience in managing agricultural development programmes and large-scale programmes on higher education on behalf of the Dutch Ministries of Development Cooperation and Education.

Anriette Esterhuysen was executive director of SANGONeT, an internet service provider and training institution for the development sector in South Africa, from 1993 to 2000. Prior to that she worked in development and human rights organisations involved in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. She is a founder of Women'sNet in South Africa. Currently she is the executive director of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC).

Alan Finlay has worked in the ICT4D sector for the past ten years in the areas of project development, research, writing and editing. He runs the research consultancy Open Research, specialising in ICT and media research and e-waste. For two years he was the Gauteng coordinator of the Green E-Waste Channel, amongst other things, setting up collection projects at the municipal level. As part of a group of environmental and waste activists he advocated for e-waste policy take-up in business and government, resulting in the formation of the eWaste Association of South Africa. In 2008 he completed the first national baseline study into e-waste in South Africa.

Bruno Güemes Delgado has completed studies in Madrid and the UK in the fields of the environment and international cooperation. He has worked in such diverse areas as land management planning, institutional strengthening and sustainable development, among others, in a number of different Latin American countries. He is currently working for the international cooperation agency Progressio and its Peruvian counterpart, CEPES.

Patrick Kalas Patrick Peter Kalas completed his master’s degree in political science at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, investigating Public-Private/Multistakeholder Partnerships for Delivery of Water and Sanitation Services. This was followed by a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Development and Cooperation (CAS) from the NADEL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich). After experiences with several international NGOs, he joined Mr. Adolf Ogi, the UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace.After his involvement during the two phases of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), he joined the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in January 2006 in the area of ICTs for Development (www.sdc.admin.ch/ict4d).

Karel Novotný is a Czech sociologist living in Montevideo, Uruguay. Since 2004, he has worked as the knowledge sharing coordinator of the APC Strategic Technologies and Network Development Programme (formerly the Strategic Use and Capacity Building Programme). Karel is involved in a number of projects developed by APC, with a particular focus on free and open source software (FOSS), wireless networking and training material development.

Kishor Pradhan is the deputy regional director and country representative for Nepal for Panos South Asia. He has worked in the areas of ICT4D since 1992, associated with various international organisations. At Panos he also manages the Media Pluralism programmes which include various ICT4D and media development activities. He has published various papers on ICT4D and media development issues in various international publications. He has an academic background in development anthropology and mass communications.

Naimur Rahman is the director of OneWorld South Asia, and in this capacity he also serves on the executive committee of the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP). A specialist in ICT4D innovation and incubation, Naimur has more than eighteen years of experience in strategic ICT advisory services, programmatic delivery in international development, information management and knowledge systems. Prior to OneWorld, Naimur was associated with ICT innovations within social sector development initiatives, and worked in various capacities in civil society, the corporate sector, bilateral donor agencies and the government.

Denise Senmartin works as knowledge sharing officer at the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) in The Hague, focusing on livelihoods and agriculture, governance and environment thematic areas. Previously she worked at the Development Gateway Foundation and the World Bank in Washington, DC, and for local development organisations in Argentina, Cambodia and the USA. Denise studied social work in Argentina and international development at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Marcelo Solervicens has been the secretary general of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) since 2003. He holds a PhD in political sciences from UQAM, Montreal, Canada. He has wide-ranging experience in the field of communications and particularly community radio. He has also worked with the NGOs CUSO and Oxfam-Quebec-CEDAL in the field of international cooperation.

Kitty Warnock
In a twenty-year career in communication for development, Kitty Warnock has been involved in environment, green economics, poverty, gender and conflict issues as a researcher, writer and project manager, working mainly in Africa and also in the Middle East. Currently, a major focus of her work is monitoring and evaluation of communication for development projects.

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