ICTD 2009 – Organizing Committee

Honorary Chairs

Dr. Hessa Sultan Al-Jaber
Secretary General
ictQATAR
Dr. Kentaro Toyama
Assistant Managing Director
Microsoft Research India (MSRI)

Conference Chair

Dr. M. Bernardine Dias
Carnegie Mellon University

Program Committee Chairs

Dr. Rahul Tongia
Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Richard Heeks
University of Manchester

Advisory Board

Dr. Vallampadugai S. Arunachalam
Center for Study of Science, Technology, and Policy (CSTEP), Bangalore
Dr. Francois Bar
University of Southern California
Dr. Michael Best
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Kenneth Keniston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Balaji Parthasarathy
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bangalore
Dr. Krithi Ramamritham
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay
Dr. Raj Reddy
Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. AnnaLee Saxenian
University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Kentaro Toyama
Microsoft Research India
Dr. Ernest Wilson
University of Southern California

Senior Program Committee Members

Dr. Francois Bar
University of Southern California
Dr. Michael Best
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Eric Brewer
Univ. of California, Berkeley
Dr. Chris Coward
University of Washington
Dr. Robert Davidson
City University of Hong Kong
Dr. Hernan Galperin
Universidad de San Andrés
Dr. Shirin Madon
London School of Economics
Dr. Alemayehu Molla
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Dr. Balaji Parthasarathy
International Inst. of Information Technology (IIIT)-Bangalore
Dr. Krithi Ramamritham
Indian Inst. of Technology (IIT)-Bombay
Dr. Kentaro Toyama
Microsoft Research India
Dr. Tim Unwin
Royal Holloway University of London

Panels and Workshops Chairs

Dr. Joseph Mertz
Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Joyojeet Pal
University of Washington

Publications Chairs

Dr. Thrishantha Nanayakkara
Harvard University and University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Dr. Yonina Cooper
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Poster Chairs

Dr. Tapan Parikh
UC Berkeley
Dr. Faheem Hussain
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Demo Chairs

Bill Thies
MIT
Dr. Khaled Harras
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Regional Chairs


Africa

Dr. Gary Marsden
University of Capetown, South Africa
Dr. Tim Waema
University of Nairobi, Kenya

Middle East

Dr. Fouad Mrad
American University of Beirut
Dr. Adnan Abu Dayya
Qatar University

East Asia

Rinalia Abdul Rahim
Global Knowledge Partnership, Malaysia
Dr. Jack Linchuan Qiu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

South Asia

Dr. Umar Saif
Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Anita Gurumurthy
IT for Change, India




South and Central America

Dr. Nicolau Reinhard
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Dr. Osvaldo Rodriguez
La Planta University, Argentina

North America

Dr. John Bennett
University of Colorado at Boulder
Claudia Morrell
Multinational Development of Women in Technology

Europe

John Traxler
University of Wolverhampton, UK



Oceania

Dr. Esther Batiri Williams
The University of the South Pacific
Christina Higa
University of Hawaii

Technical Program Committee Members

Dr. Jessica Aalami
UC Berkeley
Dr. Salam Abdallah
Abu Dhabi Univ.
Dr. Reuben Abraham
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
Dr. Erwin Alampay
Univ. of Philippines
Dr. Richard Anderson
U Washington
Dr. Peng HwaAng
Nanyang Technological Univ.
Akhtar Badshah
Microsoft
Dr. V. Balaji
ICRISAT
Dr. John Bennett
University of Colorado, Boulder
Dr. Subhash Bhatnagar
Indian Inst. of Management, Ahmedabad
Robert Bichler
Univ. of Salzburg
Dr. John Canny
UC Berkeley
Dr. Royal Colle
Cornell University
Dr. Rahul De
Indian Inst. of Management, Bangalore
Dr. Carinade Villiers
Univ. of Pretoria
Dr. Andy Dearden
Sheffield Hallam University
Dr. Uday Desai
IIT-Bombay
Dr. Antonio Diaz
Univ. of Auckland
Dr. Jonathan Donner
Microsoft Research
Dr. Ayman Elnaggar
Sultan Qaboos University
Dr. Kevin Fall
Intel/Berkeley
Dr. Ping Gao
Univ. of Manchester
Dr. Alison Gillwald
Univ. of Witwatersrand
Dr. Saskia Harmsen
IICD
Dr. Claire Heffernan
Univ. of Reading
Dr. Bill Hefley
CMU
Dr. Heather Hudson
Univ. of San Francisco
Dr. Faheem Hussain
CMU-Qatar
Mahad Ibrahim
UC Berkeley
Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
IIT-Madras
Dr. Muhammadou M. O. Kah
American Univ. of Nigeria
Matt Kam
UC Berkeley
Dr. Sherif Kamel
American Univ. of Cairo
Dr. Atreyi Kankanhalli
National University of Singapore
Dr. Srinivasan Keshav
Univ. of Waterloo
Dr. G. R. Kiran
London School of Economics
Dr. Dorothea Kleine
Univ. of London
Dr. Jim Koch
Santa Clara University
Dr. Beth Kolko
Univ. of Washington
Richa Kumar
MIT
Dr. Gillian Marcelle
WITS University
Dr. Victor Mbarika
Southern Univ. and A&M College
Dr. Wagner Meira
UFMG – Federal University at Minas Gerais
Dr. Michel Menou
City Univ. of London
Dr. Harekrishna Misra
Institute of Rural Management, Anand
Dr. Amit Mitra
Cranfield Univ.
Dr. Beda Mutagahywa
Univ. of Dar es Salaam
Dr. Shrikant Naidu
Motorola Labs, India
Dr. Amit Nanavati
IBM
Dr. Solomon Negash
Kennesaw State Univeristy
Dr. Joyojeet Pal
University of Washington
Dr. Tapan Parikh
UC Berkeley
Dr. Fay Payton
North Carolina State University
Francisco Proenza
FAO
Dr. Ranjini Raghavendra
Indian Inst. of Management, Bangalore
Dr. Nicolau Reinhard
Univ. of Sao Paolo
Marijn Rijken
TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research)
Dr. Osvaldo Rodriguez
La Planta University
Dr. Roni Rosenfeld
CMU
Dr. Sofiane Sahraoui
American Univ. of Sharjah
Dr. Tony Salvador
Intel
Dr. Maung Sein
Univ. of Agder
Dr. Afzal Sher
Swedish Program on ICT in Developing Regions (SPIDER)
Dr. Nirvikar Singh
UC Santa Cruz
Dr. Hettie Soriyan
Obafemi Awolowo University
Dr. Christoph Stork
Wits University
Dr. Eswaran Subrahmanian
CMU/NIST/CSTEP
Dr. Lakshmi(narayanan) Subramanian
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Bill Thies
MIT
Dr. Cathy Urquhart
Univ. of Auckland
Dr. Timothy Waema
Univ. of Nairobi
Pat Hall
Kathmandu University
Dr. Ernest Wilson
University of Southern California
Dr. Gillian Green
University of Bolton
Dr. Anupam Basu
IIT-Kharagpur, India
Dr. Adel El Zaim
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Canada

Local Organizing Committee Chairs

Elaine Farah
ictQatar
Erin Stewart
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Murry Evans
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Publicity Coordinators

Andrea Zrimsek
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Noha Al Fiffi
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Logistics Coordinators

Kara Nesimiuk
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
M. Freddie Dias
Carnegie Mellon University
Sarah Belousov
Carnegie Mellon University
Shams Hasan
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar