ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS

Andy Dearden (point of contact for communication) is a participatory designer with a background in
human computer interaction. His recent work has investigated tools to support distributed forms of
participation in design and the design of ICT systems to support ‘social action’ in voluntary and
community groups, NGOs and ‘civil society’.

Michael L. Best is Assistant Professor with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and Adjunct Assistant Professor with the College of Computing at Georgia Tech where he also is a faculty of the GVU Center. He is also a Fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Michael is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Information Technologies and International Development published by the MIT Press. Michael is a frequent consultant to the World Bank, ITU, and USAID. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT and has served as Director of Media Lab Asia in India and head of the eDevelopment group at the MIT Media Lab..

Susan Dray is a consultant with Dray & Associates, Inc. and has worked with HCI professionals in socalled
“developing” countries to help them build their own communities, as well as to help them to adapt
user-centered design approaches to make them useful in economic development projects. In addition,
she works with clients to help them understand the conditions in these countries so they can design
more appropriate ICT systems and products for the “developing” world.

Ann Light is chair of trustees for The Fiankoma Project (www.fiankoma.org), a charity promoting
cultural exchange through ICT by linking people in the UK and Ghana and establishing collaborative
media projects. She is a research fellow at Queen Mary University of London, exploring people's
understanding of and response to digital networks to inform interactive systems design, in Chile and
India as well as the UK. Ann is also editor of UsabilityNews.com.

John Thomas is a Research Staff Member at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center. He has worked in
the general area of Human-Computer Interaction for 30 years and has over 150 papers, book chapters,
and invited presentations. He has also served as Workshop Chair and general Co-Chair for CHI and
co-organized and co-led more than a dozen workshops at CHI, CSCW, and ECSCW including two on
cross-cultural issues in HCI.

STUDENT ORGANIZERS

Celeste Buckhalter
Daniel Greenblatt
Shanks Krishnan
Nithya Sambasivan