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 | Caroline Ncube |
Caroline Ncube is curently lecturer in the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Cape Town. Before that she has worked as legal practitioner for Coghlan, Welsh and Guest Legal Practitioners in Harare, Zimbabwe and as a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe. Currently writing a doctoral thesis on patenting in the ARIPO member states with a view to making proposals for an ARIPO position or contribution to the current Substantive Patent Law Treaty negotiations; University of Cape Town; expected date of graduation 2007. | |
 | Corien Prins |
Prof. dr. Corien Prins holds a degree in law as well as Slavic languages and literature from Leiden University, The Netherlands. As of 1986 she worked as a researcher with the Department of Law and Informatics, Leiden University as well as the Institute for Central and East European Law at Leiden University. Subsequently, she was a visiting professor at Hastings Law School, University of California, San Francisco (1993). In 1994 she was appointed professor of Law and Informatization at Tilburg University at the Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT: <www.uvt.nl/tilt>). She headed this institute from 1994 until 2006. As of March 2007, she again chairs the Institute. TILT is an institute for research and education focused on the current legal problems surrounding new technologies such as, information and communication technology (ICT), biotechnology and nanotechnology within a multidisciplinary perspective. The main emphasis is on law, ethics and public administration. TILT has about 30 members of staff. Corien Prins is a member of the Council Board Social Sciences (MAGW) of the Dutch Scientific Council (NWO) and a member of the Advisory Board of the Netherlands ICT Research and Innovation Authority (ICTRegie). She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Privacy Institute and co-chair of the Commission on ‘social, ethical and legal dimensions of ICT’ of the World IT Forum (WITFOR) 2007. Also she is a member of the board of the Dutch Society of Legal Professionals (Nederlandse Juristen Vereniging). In the past she was a member of the programme committee of the National Programme on Information Technology and Law (ITeR) of NWO. Her present research topics include (international) regulatory questions of ICT and new technologies (biotechnology, ambient intelligence, nanotech), commodification & propertisation of information, consumer protection in an ICT-society, biometric technology, e-government, NGO’s and new technologies, privacy and anonymity, identity, identity fraud and on-line personalisation. | |
 | Waudo Siganga |
Waudo Siganga is the Chairman of the Computer Society of Kenya and Vice-Chairman of the World Information Technology & Services Alliance (WITSA) in charge of Africa. He has over 20 years working in the technical and policy areas of ICT. He previously worked for the Industrial Development Bank in Kenya and the Dutch international bank, ABN AMRO as an ICT expert. Since 2003 he has been involved in a number of significant ICT4D activities, including being appointed by the former UN-Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to work on the 40-member UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) between 2003 and 2005, and being appointed a member of the UN Global Alliance on ICT for Development (GAID) Network of Champions. | |
