Participative Web : panellists

Photos: Second session, stream A

Kieren Mccarthy — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:30:00 GMT

Chair David Crane, senior Canadian journalist

Paul Misener, Amazon.com’s Vice President for Global Public Policy.

Photos: First session

Kieren Mccarthy — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:25:00 GMT

Chair John Lettice, Editorial Director of The Register

Ginsu Yoon, Vice President, Business Affairs for Linden Lab

Michael Gill, Chief Executive Officer, Fairfax Business Media

Photo: Suzanne Huttner

Kieren Mccarthy — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:22:00 GMT

Suzanne Huttner, Director of the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Directorate. During the first session.

Photo: Michael Binder

Kieren Mccarthy — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:09:00 GMT

Michael Binder: Assistant Deputy Minister of Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications, in Industry Canada. Taken during the opening session.

Michael Binder and Suzanne Huttner, Director of the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Directorate

Daniela G. Battisti

Kieren Mccarthy — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:43:00 GMT

Daniela G. Battisti (Ph.D. Rutgers 1994) is a Director within the Italian Agency for the Attraction of Investments and Economic Development – Innovation Unit and served until April 2006 as the Coordinator of the Research and Study Office in the Cabinet of the former Minister for Innovation and Technologies, presently Minister for Reform and Innovation in the PA.

Her expertise is focused on digital economy and in particular, on issues pertaining to the digital content, the evolution of copyright, broadband and convergence, ICT indicators and statistics. She works also on issues related to the digital divide and e-inclusion, in particular to the use of ICT for disabled and elderly people and the illegal and harmful material on the Internet. Presently, she is managing two major projects:

1. DIGIScuola, a public marketplace for educational digital content. The project has been allocated 25,9 million Euro for a 2 year period (2006-2008).
2. Italia.it, National Tourism Gateway www.italia.it; the project has been allocated 45 million Euro at Central and Local government.

She is a member of the Global Advisory Board for the London Business School since 2004. and Adjunct Faculty at the Loyola University - Rome Programme. Vice-Chair of ICCP (Information Computer and Communications Policies Committee.

Cyrus Beagley

Kieren Mccarthy — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:41:00 GMT

Cyrus Beagley is an Associate Principal in McKinsey & Company’s media and entertainment practice in New York. He serves a range of media and entertainment clients, focusing primarily on advertising sales, marketing, and online business building. He is one of the leaders of McKinsey’s knowledge initiative in participatory media which aims to develop a better understanding of the implications of user generated content and social networking on media companies and marketers.

Cyrus holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and received his Master’s degree in Economics and Finance, summa *** laude, from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France.

Keith Besgrove

Kieren Mccarthy — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:39:00 GMT

Keith Besgrove is the First Assistant Secretary, Telecommunications, Network Regulation and Australia Post Division in the Department of Communications, Information Technology, and the Arts in Canberra, Australia.

Keith provides advice to the Australian Government on strategic, legal and regulatory issues relating to communications and the information economy. His responsibilities include spectrum policy and planning, domain names, spam, consumer issues and broadband. He has been involved in various international groups including the OECD, APEC and ITU, and is the current chair of the OECD Working Party on Information Security and Privacy (WPISP). In recent years, he has also been responsible for research into the impact of ICT in improving productivity in Australia.

Keith is fifty six years old, holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Sydney and has two adult children. He is also a graduate of the Wharton School’s Advanced Management program, and has completed an Australian Government Research Fellowship into innovation programs in Israel and Singapore.

Michael Binder

Kieren Mccarthy — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:37:00 GMT

Michael Binder: Throughout his extensive career in the federal public service, Michael Binder has held senior positions in the former Department of Communications, the Office of the Comptroller General of Canada, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Ministry of State for Urban Affairs and the Defense Research Board.

The Assistant Deputy Minister of Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications, in Industry Canada, Michael Binder has been overseeing Canada’s transition to a network economy by promoting the development and use of world class information and communications technologies for the economic, social and cultural benefit of all Canadians.

Mr. Binder holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Alberta.

Wolfgang Blau

Kieren Mccarthy — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:35:00 GMT

Wolfgang Blau is an independent journalist and media expert from Germany, based in the U.S. and Germany. In 2004, he covered the U.S. Presidential Elections in Washington D.C. for Germany's ZDFonline and Deutsche Welle Online. Throughout 2008, he will again be covering the U.S. Presidential Elections with a special emphasis on how the internet is changing politics, campaign strategies and financing, citizen engagement and the agenda of conventional mass media.

In 1999, Wolfgang Blau developed the first online audio portal of a european daily newspaper for DIE WELT. In 2004, he produced the first podcast of a German media company for ZDF. Together with journalist Alysa Selene, Wolfgang Blau is the author of the forthcoming book "German Dream," a series of interviews with international thought leaders about the importance of inspiring societal dreams, both for nations and individuals.

Daniel Bretonès

Kieren Mccarthy — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:29:00 GMT

Daniel Bretonès is Professor at ESCEM School of Business and Management (Groupe ESC Tours-Poitiers in France). ESCEM is an AACSB and EQUIS accredited business school.

He teaches information system management and innovation management. He created in 2005 the ADVISE (ADVanced Information System ManagEment) Master in Information Systems Management in partnership with IBM. He holds a Master and a Ph.D in Business Administration from La Sorbonne University.

Daniel started to implement computer conferencing on a worldwide basis in the field of R&D and marketing with multinational teams on strategic topics in the nineties in a international corporation. His fields of interest other than Web 2.0 include high tech start ups performance and clusters, economic intelligence and knowledge management.

As chief editor of the economic journal "Vie & Sciences Economiques" he organizes conferences on various topics. He is the President of the French PhDs’ in economy association, a non-govermental organization. In April 2007, a conference in the Sorbonne was dealing with "the French economy and the web 2.0 revolution". He is interviewed here.