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Giulia D'Amico
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Giulia D'Amico is working as a consultant for International Partnerships, Bilateral and Multilateral Governments' agreements at the Youth Agency of the Italian Government. Giulia works also for projects in developing countries and sports marketing at international level. Giulia has worked as Deputy Director of the Peacebuilding Department at the Glocal Forum. Giulia has previous collaborated as a consultant on ICT for development in various international projects for Mediterranean countries and for the OECD. Giulia has a degree in Business and a MA in International Management from LUISS University in Rome.
Giulia has contributed to courses in Italy at LUISS, Milan’s Politecnico University and Ancona. Her areas of interest encompass e-government, environmental marketing, and diversity management. Working directly in the field, she has extensive experience in geopolitics and has represented Italy at the National Model United Nations in New York. She has also been a moderator for the Global Junior Challenge in Rome.
Giulia has a weekly column in the online magazine Liberalcafé (www.liberalcafe.it), has written several articles on ICT for development, and published through the Harvard Business Press.
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Michael Furdyk
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Michael Furdyk is the Director of Technology for TakingITGlobal.org, a
global online community for youth engaging members in over 190
countries. In the past, he has turned his interest of computers into a
series of successful online companies, co-founding MyDesktop.com in 1997
(later sold to Internet.com in 1999) and BuyBuddy.com in 1999 (which
closed a $4.5-million round of funding in late 2000). Over the last few
years, Michael has done work for many large corporations, including
Xerox, CIBC, IBM, and recently a 6-month consulting engagement with
Microsoft in Seattle, Washington.
As one of the "10 entrepreneurs who shaped the year 1999", according to
Profit Magazine, and one of Teen People's "10 teens that will change the
world (2000)", Michael has shared his experiences as a member of the Net
Generation by speaking at many events, including the Boca Raton
gathering of The Business Council and TED. He had made numerous media
appearances including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Time Magazine, Fast
Company, Business 2.0, BusinessWeek, CNN, MSNBC, USA Today, Globe and
Mail, and the National Post. He is also a frequent contributor to
Canadian Business Magazine.
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Mary Helmig
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Mary Helmig is the Co-Executive Director of Legacy International and has over 18 years of experience directing international youth training projects. She has trained over 2,000 youths from 98 countries to deliver leadership development programs in cross-cultural contexts. Programs have been sponsored by corporations, foundations, USAID/AED grants and US Dept. of State ECA grants. Program activities develop core skills in leadership, community action, conflict resolution and international relations.
We are currently working on projects designed to teach youth the importance of civic engagement and inter-religious dialogue.
We hope to share resources with other NGOS working in the field of youth development and civil society
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Megan Hill
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Following education in biology and environmental studies at Washington and Lee University, Megan studied land use decision-making and social-environmental interactions in the Lushoto region of Tanzania. She joined EcoVentures International (EVI) in early 2006 and currently works as Program Coordinator for EVI's East Africa programs. EVI's focus is on developing sustainable communities, primarily through training youth to develop as socially and environmentally committed entrepreneurs and "ambassadors" of sustainable development.
Megan's experience with EVI is in sustainable technologies and enterprise development, including using innovative training tools to develop youth as environmental entrepreneurs. She has most recently been working with renewable biomass fuels with women's cooperatives and individual entrepreneurs in Tanzania.
Megan is also involved in SustainUS, the US youth network for sustainable development, for which she co-coordinated and developed the CitizenScience Program until traveling abroad. CitizenScience brings science, policy, and youth together to promote sound science for sound policy decisions and increase the youth voice on the policy level.
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Nik Kafka
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As Managing Director of the UK NGO TeachAManToFish I’m leading our efforts to make a long term impact on global poverty by supporting education projects in developing countries targeted at generating sustainable livelihoods. It’s about giving young people the skills to help themselves.
Our focus is on improving the availability and quality of agricultural vocational education, but we’re advocating an innovative new methodology. We believe that by incorporating entrepreneurship and genuine production-for-market into the learning process we can both improve the quality AND financial sustainability of education. Meaning more and better education available to more and more young people.
The TeachAManToFish international network - over 300 members in more than 55 countries - brings together a number of NGOs, agricultural schools, and development professionals committed to sustainable approaches to tackling rural poverty.
TeachAManToFish also works with partner organisations directly in a number of countries implementing educational projects which have the capacity to become self-funding within a specified time period.
Visit www.teachamantofish.org.uk or contact us to find out more about our work.
Nik Kafka
Managing Director
TeachAManToFish
Nik.Kafka@teachamantofish.org.uk
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Jim Koch
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James L. Koch
Director
Center for Science, Technology, and Society
Santa Clara University
James L. Koch is Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society, and Professor of Management at Santa Clara University. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from UCLA. From 1990-96 he served as Dean of the Leavey School of Business and Administration. Prior to that he founded and directed the Organization Planning and Development Department at PG&E (1981-1990). He began his university career at the University of Oregon, where he also directed the MBA and Ph.D. programs. His research and consulting have focused on socio-technical systems and high performance organizations. His current work examines information technology and organizational change, social capital and community in the workplace, and the deployability of technology in the developing world.
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Nimit Leelasorn
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Nimit is Director of Galexo Pty Ltd, Australia, whose company has invested its financial resources and efforts since its inception in 1990 into research of countries’ development using vast global knowledge and exchange of experience though Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation utilizing his long international expertise and experience in ICT gained in both, developed and developing countries. Areas of development cover various sectors of Public Administration, Local Government Administration, Health, Education, Public Works, Sport and Tourism, Culture Development, Social Welfare, Community Development, Traffic, Transportation and Public Utilities, Environment, Urban and Rural Development, Finance, Law and Enforcement, Information Technology and Agriculture.
He focused his researching effort on both, urban and rural communities to gain an understating of the grass root level while entertaining his close relationship with decision makers at government organizations as well as national and local politicians and other stakeholders. Through these researching efforts, his first created unique Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation Computer Software, process and capacity building program to fast track the country’s development, particularly focusing on emerging and developing nations.
In late 70’s he commenced his career as real-time satellite scientific system programmer with the joint venture project between NASA of USA, UK Science Research Council and Netherlands Aerospace Agency.
Over the years he severed / worked as consultant and Management Information Services Manager with various large corporate sectors, namely Bell, Canada for Saudi Telephone, Signetic (largest computer chip manufacturer at the time), and Ericsson for its ICT operation in East Asia, Computer Science in Australia and IBM in Asia Pacific, as well as managing Galexo to develop and deliver the Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation computer software, process and capacity building to various government organisations in emerging and developing countries.
Nimit graduated in Computer Science from England, where he lived and worked for many years. His ICT practical experience spans across the globe.
Galexo Pty Ltd with the office in Sydney, Australia is now engaged in Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation Software, Process and Capacity Building Program to achieve Millenium Development Goal in Asia Pacific, South/Central Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Central and South America.
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Patrizia Mazzoni
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Prof.Patrizia Mazzoni is an urban architect who works also for the University of Bologna (Italy) teaching at the MA on Sustainable Development organized by the Faculty of Engineering. Patrizia gained lots of experience in sustainable development and urban planning working as advisor for Municipalities and Public entities. Her areas of interest encompass organic architecture, urban planning, green buildings and passive houses among the others. Patrizia has written several articles on town planning published through the major international design magazine.
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Uri Savir
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Ambassador Savir has extensive experience as a senior career diplomat, serving as head of Israeli diplomacy in the critical years 1993-96 when he was the Chief Negotiator of the Middle East Oslo Accords. Later as Member of Israeli Parliament, he was head of the Sub-Committee for Foreign Affairs and has now established various international non-profit organisations over which he presides today.
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