Ken Anderson, People and Practices Group, Intel Research, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA.

Laura Hosman, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Illinois Institute of Technology and a research affiliate with the Institute for Communication Technology Management at the Marshall School of Business at USC. Her work focuses on the role for information and communications technology (ICT) in developing countries, particularly in terms of its potential effects on socio-cultural factors, human development, economic growth, and sustainability. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Public Policy from the University of Southern California (USC), and was previously a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

Meelis Kitsing is a doctoral fellow at the National Center for Digital Government and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His primary research interests lie in comparative and international political economy with a focus on technology issues. His doctoral dissertation focuses on both conceptual issues related to internet diffusion and empirical aspects of the diffusion as experienced by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. He has presented his research at the annual conferences of the American Political Science Association (APSA), the International Studies Association (ISA), and the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN). Kitsing graduated with a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a Master of Science in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has taught at Clark University, the College of the Holy Cross, Emmanuel College, the Estonian Business School, and the University of Massachusetts. He has been a researcher at Harvard University, an international policy fellow at the Center for Policy Studies of the Open Society Institute and Central European University in Budapest, and a research associate at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. He serves on the executive board of the Information Technology and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.  He has received Fulbright, Peacock, Hammer, Institute for Humane Studies, Templeton, and numerous other scholarships and fellowships for his studies and research.

Daniel Kriess.

Dawn Nafus, People and Practices Group, Intel Research, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA