In 1993 Jack Unger founded Wireless InfoNet (now Ask-Wi.Com, Inc.), a turnkey outdoor broadband wireless wide-area networking company. Since 1993, his company has served well over 2000 client companies, providing network design, installation, training, support, consulting and technical writing for the wireless industry. In 1995, he deployed one of the first wireless ISPs in the world, operating on 900 MHz from Los Altos Hills, California. (more…)
Rob Stokes is the founder and Group CEO of Quirk eMarketing, Africa’s largest full service online marketing agency. Quirk was founded in 1999 as Rob was nearing the end of his Business Science Marketing Honors Degree at the University of Cape Town. Today, he is the guiding force in an ever-growing agency with a loyal client base that includes big names like Google, BMW and FNB. Quirk is headquartered in Cape Town with offices in Johannesburg and London. (more…)
Mike Silber is an admitted attorney and consultant with a focus on information and communications technology. Mike is a regulatory advisor to the Internet Service Providers’ Association and, in addition, he is a non-executive Director of the .za Domain Name Authority. He is a founder member of the Internet Society (South African Chapter) and was a voting member of the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Nominating Committee (representative of the country code Names Supporting Organisation). (more…)
Douglas Reed (49) is an entrepreneur whose biggest passion is starting up and growing successful businesses, especially when other people think it’s impossible. (more…)
Yves Poppe has spent his more than 35 years career in data communications. Representing Teleglobe on the Canarie (Canadian R&E network) Policy Board, Yves supported the early deployment of high speed intercontinental R&E connections and the early IPv6 efforts including the creation of 6TAP in Chicago. He represents the Corporation at the IPv6 Forum and is steering committee member of the North American IPv6 taskforce (NAV6TF). (more…)
Eric M.K Osiakwan is the Executive Secretary both of the African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA) and the Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA). He is also a Visiting Fellow and Scholar at the Stanford University and Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program and affiliate of the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. (more…)
Debbie Monahan is the Domain Name Commissioner responsible for the day to day oversight of the .nz domain name registration and management system. (more…)
David P. McClure is President and Chief Executive Officer of the US Internet Industry Association, an organization he founded in 1994 as the primary US trade association for broadband and the Internet. (more…)
Chief Executive officer of the Southern African Federation Against Copyright Theft (SAFACT) since February 2005 as well as the Programme Director for Southern Africa for the Motion Picture Association. (more…)
Johan Ihren started out with a degree in Engineering Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He stayed on at the Royal Institute after graduation to play with supercomputers and work in the field of scientific visualization and virtual reality. But eventually he came to realize that DNS was probably the most interesting alternate reality there was. (more…)
In the mid 1990′s Rob lectured on various computer subjects at a college before embarking on a career-broadening move into hardware and peripheral support. (more…)
Arthur is an award-winning writer, analyst and commentator on Internet, mobile and business and consumer technologies. He heads the World Wide Worx research organisation, leading groundbreaking research into how change is affecting businesses large and small. Clients of the research include South Africa?s major financial institutions and corporations, Government departments and agencies, and international organisations. (more…)
Neil Dundas is an admitted attorney and has served as a partner with the law firms of John & Kernick and Bowman Gilfillan respectively. Neil’s particular area of expertise is domain name dispute resolution and he was the first South African based attorney to make successful use of the ICANN UDRP process in the NANDOS.COM and SANLAM.COM matters. (more…)
Dominic specialises in regulatory issues in the electronic communications industry, acting as the regulatory advisor to the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) and the Wireless Access Providers’ Association (WAPA) amongst others, and lectures telecommunications law to wide-eyed masters students at UCT. He has extensive experience in dealing with ICASA and has been closely involved in the development of the regulatory framework under the Electronic Communications Act. (more…)
Peter Coroneos is the Chief Executive of the Internet Industry Association, the national industry body for the Internet in Australia. In addition to his role as primary industry advocate, political strategist and spokesperson for the IIA, Peter drives the IIA’s policy development work and has instigated the formation of specialist taskforces to leverage member expertise in diverse legal, economic and technical areas. (more…)
A graduate of the universities of Natal, South Africa, Exeter, London and Ottawa, Iyavar Chetty holds master’s degrees in English and Law and is a Barrister of the Bar of Ontario, Canada and an Attorney, South Africa. Banned under the Suppression of Communism Act in 1965, he went into exile in 1967, where he continued with his active participation in the liberation struggle. (more…)
Johann is 31 years old and has a wide range of experience in the ICT industry. He is a co-founder and currently a director of four companies: (more…)
James Blake has over 17 years commercial experience working for leading vendors in the information security, continuity and storage arenas as well as running his own distributor of web and email server solutions that was acquired by a major VAR. (more…)
Adiel A. Akplogan is the Chief Executive Officer of AfriNIC Ltd., the Internet Numbers’ Resource Registry for Africa since 2004. With more than 15 years experience in the Internet Technology environment, he has previously worked as New Technology Director at CAFENet (an IT service company based in Togo – 1994-2000), then as IT Director of Symbol Technologies in France (2001-2003). He is member of the UN Secretary General Internet Governance Forum Advisors Group since 2006, and the OIF (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie) group of Expert on Internet Governance since 1999. He has served in the African Technical Advisory Committee of the United Nation Economic Commission for Africa (ATAC/UNECA) from 2005-2006. (more…)
Lanre Ajayi had his Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He worked for the Nigeria Telecomunications Ltd (NITEL) for 11 years before establishing PiNet Informatics, which became one of the first Internet Service Providers in Nigeria. (more…)
