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Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since 1997. CNI includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Lynch currently serves on the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, Microsoft's Technical Computing Science Advisory Board, the board of the New Media Consortium, and the Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published *The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age* and *Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits*.

David Edery is Manager and Principal of Fuzbi, an independent consulting firm focused on the business and design of digitally-distributed games, and also a research affiliate of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program (CMS). Prior to this, David was the Worldwide Games Portfolio Manager for Microsofts Xbox Live Arcade service, and the MIT CMS Programs Associate Director for Special Projects before Microsoft. David is also the co-author of *Changing the Game: How Video Games are Transforming the Future of Business* - a review of the ways that games are helping companies to connect with customers, to attract, train, and motivate employees, and to boost their productivity. David received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he concentrated on marketing and entrepreneurship. Prior to receiving his MBA, David worked as a software engineer and founded a successful software development and consulting firm.

Dave Marvit, co-chair of the OASIS LegalXML eContracts Technical Committee, spends most of his time developing new technologies for Fujitsu Laboratories of America. These developments range across a variety of fields including automated negotiation systems, interface design for hand-held devices, and business applications of statistical natural language processing. Marvit has gone from studying neuroscience at Caltech and Stanford to helping in an Oscar winning cutting room on Disney's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," to being selected by *Time Magazine* as one of the dozen most influential people in the digital world in 2001. In addition to producing an award-winning series of documentaries for WGBH-TV's "Nova" science team, an award-winning educational CD-ROM for Knowledge Adventure, and executive producing a virtual world for hospital-bound children with Steven Spielberg, Dave has served on the faculty at Caltech and founded two startup companies.

In addition to teaching at Rutgers, Jorge Reina Schement has held positions at Stanford University, the University of Texas at Austin, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, and the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at UCLA. Schement, a renowned expert on communication and information policy, will become the new dean of the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies on July 1. Schement, most recently distinguished professor of telecommunications in the College of Communications at Penn State, replaces the retiring Gustav Friedrich. Schement's research and scholarship address issues in the areas of information policy, global telecommunications, the social aspects of the information age, Spanish-language media, and information-consumer behavior. More specifically, he has focused on the social and policy consequences of the production and consumption of information, with a special interest in policy as it relates to ethnic minorities. A graduate of Southern Methodist University, Schement earned his doctorate in communication at Stanford University's Institute for Communications Research and his master's degree at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author or editor of 10 books, with two additional volumes in preparation, 100 articles and reports, multiple other papers and presentations, and a substantial list of corporate and foundation grants.

Dan Gillmor is founder and director of the Center for Citizen Media, a nonprofit organization aimed at enhancing and expanding grassroots media and its reach. The center is an affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University Law School and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Dan is the author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, published in 2004. From 1994-2004, Dan was a columnist at The San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper, and wrote a blog for SiliconValley.com. He joined The Mercury News after six years with The Detroit Free Press.

Mitchell Kapor, is a pioneer of the personal computing revolution and has been at the forefront of information technology for 30 years as an entrepreneur, software designer, activist, and investor. He is widely known as founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" which made the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. Mr. Kapor was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1950 and graduated from Freeport (Long Island) High School in 1967. He received a B.A. from Yale College in 1971 and studied psychology, linguistics, and computer science as part of an interdisciplinary major in Cybernetics. In 1978, he received a Master's degree in counseling psychology from Campus-Free College (later renamed Beacon College) in Boston and worked as a mental health counselor at New England Memorial Hospital in Stoneham, Massachusetts. He also attended the Sloan School of Management at MIT, taking a leave of absence one term short of graduation in 1980 in order to take a job in a Silicon Valley start-up company. In the fall of 2005 he became a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-taught a course "Open Source Development and Distribution of Information". In 2006, he was appointed Adjunct Professor at the School of Information at U.C. Berkeley. Mr. Kapor has written widely about the impact of personal computing and networks on society. He has contributed articles, columns, and op-ed pieces on information infrastructure policy, intellectual property issues, and antitrust in the digital era to Scientific American, *The New York Times*, *Forbes*, *Tricycle: The Buddhist Review*, and *Communications of the ACM*.

From his student days to his current Chairmanship of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Julian Bond has been an active participant in the movements for civil rights and economic justice. As an activist who has faced jail for his convictions, as a veteran of more than 20 years service in the Georgia General Assembly, a university professor and a writer, he has been on the cutting edge of social change since 1960. He was a founder, in 1960 while a student at Morehouse College of the Atlanta student sit-in and anti-segregation organization and of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). As SNCC's Communications Director, Bond was active in protests and registration campaigns throughout the South. Bond serves as Chairman of the Premier Auto Group PAG (Volvo, Land Rover, Aston-Martin, and Jaguar) Diversity Council and is on the Boards of People for the American Way, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Council for a Livable World, and the advisory board of the Harvard Business School Initiative on Social Enterprise, among others. He was a commentator on America's Black Forum, the oldest black-owned show in television syndication. His poetry and articles have appeared in numerous publications. He has narrated numerous documentaries, including the Academy Award winning "A Time For Justice" and the prize-winning and critically acclaimed series "Eyes On The Prize." He has served since 1998 as Chairman of the Board of the NAACP, the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States. In 2002, he received the prestigious National Freedom Award. The holder of twenty-five honorary degrees, he is a Distinguished Professor at American University in Washington, DC, and a Professor in history at the University of Virginia

Timothy Patrick McCarthy is a scholar and activist who teaches at Harvard University. After graduating with honors from Harvard, Dr. McCarthy went on to receive his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in American History from Columbia University. He is a specialist on the history of American race relations and civil rights, democratic social movements, political rhetoric, and media culture. McCarthy is the co-editor of two books, *The Radical Reader* (2003) and *Prophets of Protest* (2006), both of which were published by *The New Press*. An award-winning teacher and public servant, Dr. McCarthy is the Academic Director of the Clemente Course in the Humanities in Dorchester, MA, and the Founding Director of Harvard's Alternative Spring Break Church Rebuilding Project, where he brings students down South each year to help rebuild African-American churches that have been burned in arson attacks. He lectures widely across the country, and is a frequent media commentator.

Ashley Ramsden is the founder of the School of Storytelling. His unique methods of teaching voice and the skills of the storyteller have received international acclaim. He runs workshops, tours with his one man shows and is a speaker of sacred poetry.