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Joan Font has been professionally involved in the world of radio-broadcasting since 1971 when he entered Sud Radio. Successively being Technician, Producer of the News Service and Journalist until 1982. In 1982 he became chief of the photographic laboratory, and manager of the Publicity department at the news magazine “Andorra 7” until 1985. With the creation of the National Sound Archive in 1985, he enters the Andorran Government Administration, being nowadays the chief of the Audiovisuals and Communications department. Since 2005 he is a member of the international experts panel in e-Content and e-Technologies of the WSA international organization.
 

Besides his professional activities, Joan Font has exerted several political responsibilities:

• Member of the City council of Ordino from 1984 to 1991
• Mayor of the “Quart de Sorn?s” from 1998 to 2000
• Member of the City council of Ordino from 2000 to 2004,
• Member of the Andorran Audiovisual Council since 2005
• President of the Andorran Audiovisual Council since January 2008 (www.caa.ad )

Christian Rupp was appointed as the Federal Executive Secretary for the e-Government initiative of the Austrian Government in spring 2003 and is since autumn 2005 the Spokesperson of the Federal Platform „Digital Austria“ in the Austrian Federal Chancellery, which coordinates the ICT and e-Government activities between local and national governments, municipalities as well as industries. He is also member of the Advisory Board for Information Society in the Austrian Federal Chancellery, which coordinates the i2010 activities in Austria, as well as in the Advisery Board of saferinternet.at and in the Strategic Consulting Group ICT in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour.

Before his activities in the Austrian Federal Chancellery he was nearly ten years long the e-Business representative of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber. Beyond that he was Vice-Director Communication and Marketing, Director of the eCenter, Adviser for International Technology- and Know-How-Transfer in the Austrian Federal Chamber Organisation.

Sergei Enin is a Doctor of Science and a Senior Research Associate of the National Academy of Science. From 1968 till 1990, Mr Enin worked in the Institute of Technique Cybernetics under the National Academy of Science of the Republic of Belarus and published more than 50 scientific works. From 1994 Mr Enin started specializing in theoretic problems of informatization and transition to the information-oriented society. Sergei Enin made more than 40 publications on the problems of information resources development and use, and application of information and analytical technologies in the process of state government and creation of the National Information Policy of the Republic of Belarus. Sergei Enin is a member of the National Expert Council for Information Technologies under the State Committee on Science and Technologies (SCST), a member of the Board of Academics of the Belarusian Institute for System Analysis and Information Support of the Science and Technology at the SCST, a member of the Editorial Board of the specialized scientific and production journal of the Ministry of Communication and Informatization called «Vesnic Suvyazi». Since 1999, Sergei Enin is an executive director of the NGO «Information society» that employs more than 500 specialists in the sphere of ICT and aims to encourage and promote the development of the national information and communication structure and strategy and transition of the Republic of Belarus to the information-oriented society. Mr Enin supervised a range of projects of international technical aid, financed by the EU, World Bank, Development Programs of the UN.

Zlatan Mulabegovic is Country Manager for the Algebra Educational Center in Bosnia and Herzegovina,the largest training center for education in BiH, where he is responsible for the set-up of educational centers in BiH and creating education programs and e-learning seminars. He has served as local expert and project manager in several UNDP and EU programmes in BiH and as consultant to the council of Ministers. Having studied Computer Science in Zagreb, he gained international work experience in Switzerland and Croatia. Besides being President of BAIT- the Association for information technologies in Bosnia and Herzegovina he is also President of the international rotary club "Alpe Adria".