North America and Oceania
Australia
co-founder and Manging Director
Portable.
Simon Goodrich is co-founder and Manging Director of Portable. He has over a decade of experience in the community media industry in Australia, and is widely known for his work as President and Manager of the Student Youth Network in Melbourne. Simon led SYN FM's successful application for a full time community broadcasting licence in 2001, and established the SYN FM school training program.
He has served as a board member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia, the industry's national peak body, and conducted a number of successful national consultations to Federal Government, attaining increased support for broadcast training initiatives and the promotion of Australian music. Prior to Portable, Simon held the position of Business Development Manager of Diversitat, a community organisation in Geelong, Victoria. He is currently President of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association, representing over 700 companies in the online media, advertising and interactive space; in 2008 he was recognised as one of Australia's leading entrepreneurs under the age of 30 by Anthill Magazine.
Simon sits on the board of Design Victoria and the Mobile Enterprise Growth Alliance. He is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences the crew behind the Webby Awards, the premier international recognition for pioneering online initiatives. He is also the Australian Ambassador for the Awards.
Canada
CEO
Impact Mobile, Inc.
Over the past ten years, Gary has played a leadership role in the mobile industry. Gary is the CEO of Impact Mobile, Inc., Chair of MEF North America and is the author of "THE IMPULSE ECONOMY" and the upcoming “FAST SHOPPER . SLOW STORE” published by Published by Simon & Schuster, Aria Imprint.
In 2002, Gary ran the first cross-carrier short code campaign in North America. In 2006, Gary founded the mobile committee for the www.iab.net) " target="_blank">Interactive Advertising Bureau and has worked to publish literature such as the Mobile Buyer's Guide helping extend the digital buy into mobile (for which he received an IAB award for industry excellence in 2009).
Additionally, in 2007, Gary started work to help establish a joint task force between the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and the IAB with the aid of the Media Rating Council (MRC) to develop global, auditable mobile measurement standards.
In 2010, Gary was elected as the Chair of Mwww.m-e-f.org)" target="_blank">EF North America with a remit to develop a mobile commerce practice to service brands, retailers and content owners (for which he received a MEF award for industry excellence). In 2011, in partnership with MEF and a number of industry groups including the X9 security standards body, Gary is working to develop m-commerce security and privacy guidelines.
Gary is the recipient of the Macromedia People Choice Award, Dodge Foundation award for innovation and the Retail Touchpoints Award for customer engagement. Gary is an Asia and Japan Foundation Fellow.
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Fiji
ICT Advisor
Secretariat of the Pacifc Community
After a long career in Ericsson Australia, Sweden and New Zealand, Ian Thomson was contracted by UNESCO and the NZ government to hold a series of Civil Society workshops to produce documents for the New Zealand Government’s input to WSIS. He is currently RICS and OLPC Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) where he is managing Rural Internet Connectivity Projects to provide internet access to rural and remote locations in the Pacific Islands as well as the introduction and scale up of OLPC projects to all Pacific Islands. He is providing advice on ICT policy issues in the Pacific region. Being the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust which addresses Digital Divide issues in Wellington as part of the Infocity strategy he worked with various government agencies on policies and programs and Memorandum of Understandings.
Kiribati
ICT Advisor
Secretariat of the Pacifc Community
After a long career in Ericsson Australia, Sweden and New Zealand, Ian Thomson was contracted by UNESCO and the NZ government to hold a series of Civil Society workshops to produce documents for the New Zealand Government’s input to WSIS. He is currently RICS and OLPC Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) where he is managing Rural Internet Connectivity Projects to provide internet access to rural and remote locations in the Pacific Islands as well as the introduction and scale up of OLPC projects to all Pacific Islands. He is providing advice on ICT policy issues in the Pacific region. Being the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust which addresses Digital Divide issues in Wellington as part of the Infocity strategy he worked with various government agencies on policies and programs and Memorandum of Understandings.
Marshall Islands
ICT Advisor
Secretariat of the Pacifc Community
After a long career in Ericsson Australia, Sweden and New Zealand, Ian Thomson was contracted by UNESCO and the NZ government to hold a series of Civil Society workshops to produce documents for the New Zealand Government’s input to WSIS. He is currently RICS and OLPC Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) where he is managing Rural Internet Connectivity Projects to provide internet access to rural and remote locations in the Pacific Islands as well as the introduction and scale up of OLPC projects to all Pacific Islands. He is providing advice on ICT policy issues in the Pacific region. Being the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust which addresses Digital Divide issues in Wellington as part of the Infocity strategy he worked with various government agencies on policies and programs and Memorandum of Understandings.
Nauru
ICT Advisor
Secretariat of the Pacifc Community
After a long career in Ericsson Australia, Sweden and New Zealand, Ian Thomson was contracted by UNESCO and the NZ government to hold a series of Civil Society workshops to produce documents for the New Zealand Government’s input to WSIS. He is currently RICS and OLPC Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) where he is managing Rural Internet Connectivity Projects to provide internet access to rural and remote locations in the Pacific Islands as well as the introduction and scale up of OLPC projects to all Pacific Islands. He is providing advice on ICT policy issues in the Pacific region. Being the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust which addresses Digital Divide issues in Wellington as part of the Infocity strategy he worked with various government agencies on policies and programs and Memorandum of Understandings.
New Zealand
Director
BWX Productions
Jan Bieringa works independently as a creative producer in both new media and with feature documentaries. The opportunity to work across both sectors is immensely satisfying & provides the best of both worlds. Jan has primarily worked in and around the cultural sector and during the 90s she was Programme Director at Creative New Zealand, responsible for programming and funding short film, documentary and new media. Jan, with a small dedicated team, set up and ran (e)-vision Digital Media Centre for Communication Art and Technology in the late '90s.
From (e)-vision came her engagement with WSA in '03 and she is now working with both New Zealand & the Pacific to ensure submissions from both regions are available. In September last year she took the WSA Roadshow to Rarotonga to the PacInet conference. Simultaneously she is working to realise a Digital Content Showcase in 2009 in NZ. The WSA Roadshow will provide a central component to this event which will seek to engage with a broad cross-sector audience with the aim of showcasing new media practice beyond the parameters of the ICT world. The philosophy of the WSA makes it the perfect vehicle to encourage and demonstrate digital content in the fullest sense. She is currently the programme coordinator for an ideas forum - see http://www.7x7nz.net/ - a forum for people ambitious for what the world might be and New Zealand’s role in this framework.
Palau
ICT Advisor
Secretariat of the Pacifc Community
After a long career in Ericsson Australia, Sweden and New Zealand, Ian Thomson was contracted by UNESCO and the NZ government to hold a series of Civil Society workshops to produce documents for the New Zealand Government’s input to WSIS. He is currently RICS and OLPC Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) where he is managing Rural Internet Connectivity Projects to provide internet access to rural and remote locations in the Pacific Islands as well as the introduction and scale up of OLPC projects to all Pacific Islands. He is providing advice on ICT policy issues in the Pacific region. Being the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust which addresses Digital Divide issues in Wellington as part of the Infocity strategy he worked with various government agencies on policies and programs and Memorandum of Understandings.
Solomon Islands
ICT Advisor
Secretariat of the Pacifc Community
After a long career in Ericsson Australia, Sweden and New Zealand, Ian Thomson was contracted by UNESCO and the NZ government to hold a series of Civil Society workshops to produce documents for the New Zealand Government’s input to WSIS. He is currently RICS and OLPC Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) where he is managing Rural Internet Connectivity Projects to provide internet access to rural and remote locations in the Pacific Islands as well as the introduction and scale up of OLPC projects to all Pacific Islands. He is providing advice on ICT policy issues in the Pacific region. Being the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust which addresses Digital Divide issues in Wellington as part of the Infocity strategy he worked with various government agencies on policies and programs and Memorandum of Understandings.
Tonga
ICT Advisor
Secretariat of the Pacifc Community
After a long career in Ericsson Australia, Sweden and New Zealand, Ian Thomson was contracted by UNESCO and the NZ government to hold a series of Civil Society workshops to produce documents for the New Zealand Government’s input to WSIS. He is currently RICS and OLPC Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) where he is managing Rural Internet Connectivity Projects to provide internet access to rural and remote locations in the Pacific Islands as well as the introduction and scale up of OLPC projects to all Pacific Islands. He is providing advice on ICT policy issues in the Pacific region. Being the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust which addresses Digital Divide issues in Wellington as part of the Infocity strategy he worked with various government agencies on policies and programs and Memorandum of Understandings.
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