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Dr. Kwabena Riverson is a Research Scientist at The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Industrial Research (CSIR-IIR). He is a typical techno-evangelist who always delivers what he preaches. Dr. Riverson is the team leader to Design and implementation IIR enterprise website and hosting. He maintains and updates the website with passion as if the website is one of his kids. Dr. Riverson is also a R&D team member on the Enterprise & Institutional Repository and Digital Library Projects at IIR. One will think that two major projects would be enough for Dr. Riverson, but not. He is working behind the seen to forge international collaboration projects in Information Management research and also pursuing funding. Dr. Riverson sits on the Board of NTHC (USA) Ltd., PENPLUSBYTES, and UIQ Services Ltd. He can be reached at: dr.riverson@gmail.com |
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Ethan Zuckerman was a co-founder of Tripod.com, a web hosting enterprise, and later founder of Geekcorps. He currently serves as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His work at the Berkman Center has included research into global media attention, and the co-founding of Global Voices Online in collaboration with Rebecca MacKinnon. For some years he was also a contributing writer for Worldchanging.com, where he served as president of the board of directors.
In January 2007, he joined the inaugural Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board.
He is a graduate of Williams College, spent a year in Accra, Ghana on a Fulbright scholarship, and currently resides in Lanesborough, Massachusetts with his wife Rachel Barenblat. http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/EZCV.html |
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G. Pascal Zachary is a journalist, author and teacher. He spent 13 years as a senior writer for The Wall Street Journal (1989 to 2001) and authored the Ping column on innovation for The New York Times (2007 to 2008). He is a member of the Board of Editors of In These Times and he edits a blog on Africa: http:/ / africaworksgpz.com/ . He also publishes often on technological change, globalization, and culture, race and identity. He consults on development issues for non-profits. His latest book is "Married to Africa," a memoir about his marriage to a woman from Nigeria and their adventures in West Africa and the United States. In addition to writing, Zachary consults for various non-profits on development issues. He has taught journalism and writing at UC Berkeley and Stanford University.
Zachary is a fellow at the Insitute for Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and a fellow at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. He's taught writing and journalism at Stanford University and guest-lectured at many universities in the U.S. and abroad. He studied philosophy at the University of Albany in New York.
Zachary regularly contributes comments on current affairs to radio programs in the U.S., Britain and Africa. He has been interviewed by BBC, NPR's Marketplace, and Pacifica's KPFK (Los Angeles). He has research, written and directed television documentaries with the film-maker David Winton of San Francisco. |
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With over nine Years of experience in Management, Marketing, New Media, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Development. |
He was Executive Director of AITEC Ghana and a former board member of Ghana Information Network for Knowledge Sharing (GINKS) Served as a Key Committee Member for the organization of World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) African Regional Meeting 2005. He has undertaken several training sessions on new media across Africa. He is a Steve Biko and Foster Davies Fellow. Kwami is co-chair of the African Media Forum on Geospatial Information Systems (AMFGIS) under the auspices of the United Nations Commission for Africa (UNECA) and is currently on the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship Program being undertaken by the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington D.C. |
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Charity Binka is served as the Assistant Chief Editor and Head of the women's Desk Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Accra, Ghana, where she ensures that one-third of the items in all major news bulletins on Ghana Radio focus on gender-related issues. Ms. Binka previously worked with the African Newspapers of Nigeria Limited in Ibadan, Nigeria, as a Senior Reporter. She became the Ogun State Correspondent before leaving for Ghana in 1986. Charity has done several presentations on gender and media issues and has covered several international conferences. She is committed to giving women public voice and visibility. This is premised on the belief that to create a demand for women as leaders, women must be seen and heard in the public arena. Charity has established an NGO to train women in media skills as tools for advocacy and self-development.
Charity Binka is a member of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT), a Chevening Fellow and former President of the Ghana Chapter of the Society for Women Against AIDA in Africa (SWAA). She holds a Master of Arts degree in Gender and Development from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, and a Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies from the University of Ghana, Legon. She has recently completed an Executive Masters degree program in Public Administration (EMPA) at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) |
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I’m director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The Center, funded by the Knight Foundation and Kauffman Foundation, is working to help create a culture of innovation and risk-taking in journalism education, and in the wider media world. (Disclosure: Google has loaned us some of its G1 phones, and T-Mobile has provided airtime, for some experiments in new media.)
I remain director of the the Center for Citizen Media, originally a joint project of the University of California-Berkeley School of Journalism and the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society (I was a Fellow at Berkman from 2006-2009 and am now a Faculty Associate); the Center for Citizen Media is now affiliated with ASU but is pretty much dormant while I focus on my current work.
I also write articles and have published a book called We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People (2004; O’Reilly Media), and am working on a new book about media in the digital age. The paperback version of We the Media was released in January 2006. The book has been translated into many foreign languages, most recently Korean and Arabic.
I’m also involved in several outside projects; have a number of media investments; and am on several media-related boards and advisory boards. These include:
* Co-founder, Dopplr, a travel site and “social atlas”. Here’s my public Dopplr page. UPDATE: Dopplr is now part of Nokia (announcement)
* Investor, Wikia, a privately held consumer wiki company (Jimmy Wales, founder, is a member of the Center for Citizen Media Board of Advisors)
* Investor, Seesmic, a privately held company that does Twitter applications and online video
* Shareholder in Berkshire Hathaway (owner of the Buffalo News and major shareholder in the Washington Post Co.), and Amazon.com
* Board member, First Amendment Coalition
* Advisor, FON, a collaborative Wi-Fi company
* Advisor, Global Voices Online, a nonprofit
* Advisor, Spot.us, a startup working on new journalism business models
* Advisor, Publish2.com, a site aggregating journalists’ links and ideas
* Advisor and co-founder, Citizen Media Law Project, a Berkman-based (and Knight-funded) project
In 2005 I worked on citizen media through Grassroots Media Inc.; I count the business failure of Bayosphere, a new-media startup that aimed to fuel local journalism, as one of my best learning experiences.
From 1994-2005 I was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s daily newspaper, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com. The blog is believed to have been the first by a journalist for a traditional media company. I joined the Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press. Before that, I was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont. Over the years I’ve freelanced for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Economist, Financial Times and many other publications.
During the 1986-87 academic year I was a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where I studied history, political theory and economics.
Before becoming a journalist I played music for seven years. |
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Long experience of surviving in a challenging environment. Two small companies, dedicated staff, working on the principle that where there is a will there is usually a way that isn't driven by a prescriptive marketing plan plucked from the pages of the latest guru's book.
Quality output = respect = business. But it takes time and has to be earned.
Now working closely with leading donor agencies as well as leading commercial entities |
Currently MD of FSG Communications Ltd, and publisher of Africa Health journal (since 1978)... now online at www.africa-health.com;
and MD of Asempa Limited, publisher of the 50 year-old Africa Confidential newsletter (www.africa-confidential.com), and the relatively new Africa-Asia Confidential (www.africa-asia-confidential.com). |
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Andrew Kwesi Kafe, Ghana Andrew has a tremendous interest in the use of ICT tools and their use in the media. Currently pursuing a marketing career with Shell Ghana Ltd, he has experience in entrepreneurship development amongst the youth. He has also served as Chief Operations officer of Ghana New Ventures Competition Inc. |
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