Asia

Afghanistan
Program Director
Afghanistan Information Management Services (AIMS)

Dr. Mohammad N. Azizi is a well-known technology economist and international development expert with track record achievements with the UN, USAID, World Bank, Government and Academia. He holds Ph.D from Okayama University and was former Fellow at Stanford University and UNITAR, Japan. He has over 15 years of professional experiences, managing projects in distinct sectors including information & communication technology and institutional development.  Currently Dr. Azizi serves Afghanistan Information Management Services (AIMS) as Executive Director. Dr. Azizi is the team leader for the innovation support program and also serves as the Country Expert to the United Nations’ World Summit Awards. Mr. Azizi has served in different senior management and strategic positions. Before joining AIMS, he was the CEO with a consultancy & mining company.  At the Ministry of Finance, Dr. Azizi managed and operated the Afghanistan government budget valued over US$ 2 billion as the Director General of Budget Department. Dr. Azizi has been teaching in university the undergraduate and post graduate courses. He has served as Guest Professor at Kabul University and American University of Afghanistan. He is a skilled writer, editor and author of international development documents in a wide variety of sectors. He is multilingual and fluently speaks English, Arabic, Dari, Pashto, Urdu and Japanese. Mr. Azizi regularly represents Afghanistan in international forums and also appears on electronic media and discusses the issues related to national, regional and international affairs on Aljazeera, CNN, BBC, VOA and local media. He has visiting, working and living - country experiences in Japan, France, Germany, United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Norway, India, and Denmark.

Bangladesh
CEO
D.Net

Ananya Raihan is currently the Executive Director of D.Net (Development Research Network). Raihan started his professional career at Kharkov State University, Ukraine as an Assistant Professor. He also served as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a leading civil society think tank in Bangladesh. He immensely contributed at Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) as an Associate Professor and Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) as a consultant. Raihan has a diversified research interest which includes access to information and knowledge, international trade, financial sector reform, corporate social responsibility and SME development. He was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in recognition of his contribution as a social innovator in the area of ICT for the rural community.
Raihan is currently the secretary General of Bangladesh Telecentre Network (BTN), which aims to build up information and knowledge system for the poor and marginalised. As a researcher he performed professional works for a number of international and regional organisations including UNCTAD, WTO-ITC, SAARCFINANCE, OXFAM, CENTAD, SAPANA, SCCI, UNESCO and ICTSD. Raihan completed his MS in Economics (specialisation: Economic Cybernetics) and was awarded Ph.D. in Economics from V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, National Academy of Science, Ukraine.

China
Founder & President
Internet Professional Association (iProA)

Dr. Elizabeth Quat is the Founder and CEO of CB Strategic Investment Limited which focus in investment in ICT and Education areas. Dr. Quat is also the Co-Founder and Immediate Past President of Internet Professional Association which now represents over 2,500 ICT professionals. It contributes towards improving professionalism of information technology practitioners, encouraging ICT professionals to share social responsibilities, as well as striving to bridge the digital divide in Hong Kong. She holds a BBA, MBA and PhD degree in Management and has over 20 years of experience in Asia market entry, new business & product development, and M&A. Dr. Quat is an active member of many China and HKSAR Government Advisory Committees and community servicing organisations such as the Digital 21 Strategy Advisory Committee, Logistics Development Council, and the Personal Data (Privacy) Advisory Committee. She is also the Founder of Green ICT Consortium and the Hong Kong Energy Saving Association, and a member of the All-China Youth Federation of mainland China. She was awarded one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Persons” and “Ten Outstanding Young Digi Persons, "The Most Successful Women", and "Hundred Outstanding Women Entrepreneurs in China". Dr. Quat was also elected District Councilor of Hong Kong Shatin District Council.
Dr. Quat recently completed a Master Degree in Social Sciences major in Marriage and Family Therapy from the Hong Kong University’s Family Institute.  Dr. Quat joined the scientists of the “ELYSIUM” project on a 20-day expedition of the Antarctic Peninsula and Southern Ocean to examine the impact of climate change on the oceans and Antarctica. Dr. Quat, a certified PADI dive Instructor was one of the members of the diving team and a supporting photographer of the expedition to document the underwater and above water world of Antarctica. Dr. Quat is married and has been a vegetarian for 23 years.

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China
Managing Director
Crossover International

 

Alex Hung has over 18 years of experience in Business Consulting and Information and Communications Technology industry. He accumulated extensive IT expertise and broad industry knowledge, with both technical and business perspectives.

After having delivered a number of speeches and talks oversea, such as New York, Abu Dhabi, India, New Zealand, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, Alex now is the Managing Director of Crossover International. Crossover mainly engaged in Information Technology consulting services and software development, including website, shopping cart, e-Books, mobile application (iPhone/Android) development.

Alex Hung engaged himself for the WSA in terms of chairman of the Grand Jury in Hong Kong and furthermore is Ambassador of the Word Summit Youth Award in China and Hong Kong. 

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India
Founder & Director
Digital Empowerment Foundation

Osama Manzar is a convert social entrepreneur spearheading the mission to overcome the information barrier between India’s rural sector and the so-called developed society, through Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) – the not-for-profit organization founded to accomplish the mission. Osama has been British Chevening Fellow and he was invited by the US State Department for the “International Visitors Leadership Program”. He just released his 4th Book titled “NetCh@kra: 15 Years of Internet in India”. He is a member of the Advisory Board for National Optic Fibre Network (NOFN). At the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, for the Community Radio Licensing, Osama Manzar is a member of the Screening Committee.He has recently initiated a regional movement on “How Mobile can Empower Masses” through mBillionth Award South Asia, recognising and mentoring Mobile Content, Application & Services. He launched Manthan Award, India’s first ever award for choosing the best e-content practices. Manthan Award has extended its reach to the Asia Pacific region recently and has accumulated more than 4000 best e-content practices in its nomination database. Osama Manzar is e-Content Expert for India for World Summit Award (WSA), Grand Jury Member and member of the Board of Directors. In addition, he has been Jury Anchor for the Dataquest e-Gov Champion Award, for Bahrain e-Content Award, Sri Lanka’s e-Content Award & Bangladesh e-Content & ICTD Award-National Digital Innovation. He has been the moderator for e-North east Award Jury. Further, he is the facilitator of the “Pearson Teachers Award”.He has been a part of the Professional Social Entrepreneurship Program by Social-Impact International and worked for Computerworld as assistant editor and for Hindustan Times as head of Interactive Media Division. He is a physics graduate and holds a post-graduate diploma in Journalism. Osama has a credit of covering case studies in India and South Asia and has traveled villages, including 30 countries. Osama is fluent in English, Urdu, Hindi and can read and write Arabic and Persian.

Indonesia
CEO
MOJOPIA

Shinta has pioneered a web company called Bubu.com in Indonesia. Today, that web company has evolved into Indonesia's leading Digital media Agency.  She has also been in the mobile content business for the past five years. 

So after a long track records in the dotcom, mobile and ICT industry, last year, she started a new venture with TELKOM Indonesia which is the biggest telecommunication company in Indonesia. So she is now the CEO, of a newly formed subsidiary of TELKOM GROUP called MOJOPIA that focuses on the most trusted and biggest Ecommerce portal in Indonesia, Plasa.com.  The company basically will be responsible as well in designing content and Internet/digital roadmap in leveraging synergies of various companies within TELKOM group.

She is member of ASPILUKI (Software Association of Indonesia) and of the Committee in the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) as the Vice to the Head of the Telecommunication IT and Media for Content and Application division.

Japan
Director of Business Development, Future Communications Department
Dentsu Inc.
Kei is a Japanese American entrepreneur from New York. He has worked for Panasonic, Lucent Technologies, Cybird, all leading companies in their respective industries before establishing his successful mobile strategy firm, Infinita.



For over 10 years, Kei has devoted his time to helping Japanese companies with their mobile product and service strategies in expanding across borders and likewise guided International companies with their entry into Japan.



He is now Director of Business Development at Dentsu's product innovation section, the Future Communications Department, where he is going beyond the companies traditional advertising business to cultivate new global business opportunities in the digital arena.



Kei is also one of the most sought after speakers on Japan's mobile market. He is a regular at industry events such as the Mobile Marketing Forum, Mobile World Congress, Ad:Tech, Festival of Media, CommunicAsia, X|Media|Lab, Mobile 2.0, Telecom Asia and has done keynote presentations and panel moderation in over a 20 countries around the globe.



His passions, aside from work, include playing tennis, snowboarding, travelling, cooking with his wife, entertaining his new born son and collecting mobile devices from around the world. His collection includes the Magic Cap, first generation Sony Clie and Sharp Zaurus.



Specialties: Mobile Strategy, Mobile Development, Mobile Advertisement, Japanese Mobile Market, Research, Consulting, Business Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Management, Planning, Human Resources, Facilitation, Making things work, Execution