Report Prepared for the United Nations ICT Task Force in Support of the Science, Technology & Innovation Task Force of the United Nations Millennium Project
6. Acknowledgments
This paper is based on the recent survey of United Nations ICT Task Force and United Nations Millennium Project members and advisers and draws extensively on their collective work and wisdom on ICT for Development as well as the wealth of emerging literature in the field.
Task Force Members & Advisers
Special thanks in the compilation of this paper to Calestous Juma, Lee Yee-Cheong, Sarbuland Khan, Brendan Tuohy, Richard Simpson, and Richard Bourassa. Generous support was given by members and advisers of the United Nations ICT Task Force and the UN Millennium Project, African Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank,Development Bank of Southern Africa, The World Bank Group, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, International Telecommunication Union, United Nations Conference on Trade & Development, United Nations Development Program, UNESCO, Regional United Nations Economic Commissions, International Chamber of Commerce, Conference of NGOs, Development Gateway Foundation, Grammen Bank, European Union, Global Knowledge Partnership, Global Information Infrastructure Commission, Global Business Dialogue, World Economic
Forum, as well as the governments of Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Ghana, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Latvia,Mozambique, Malaysia, Romania, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom.
Individual thanks to Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Izumi Aizu, K.Y.Amoko, Jonathan Aronson, Renate Bloem, Carlos Braga, Susan Brandwayn, Lidia Brito, Maria Cattaui, Ilaria Carnevali, Vinton Cerf, Henry Chasia, David Cleevely, Peter Cowhey, Harry De Backer, Amir Dossal, Astrid Dufborg, William Drake, John Dryden, Andrew Entwhistle, Anriette Esterhuysen, Gary
Fazzino, Juan Fernandez, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Walter Fust, John Gage, Daniela Giocomelli, Yuri Grin, Ayesha Hassa, Ulla Hauer, Peter Hellmonds, Reed Hundt, K.J.John, Jennifer Johnson, Sergei Kambalov, Serge Kapto, Tim Kelly, Andrei
Korotkov, Radika Lal, Bruno Lambourgini, Bruno Lanvin, Julianne Lee, Maria Lehtinen, Karen Lynch, Mark Malloch Brown, James Moody, Kerry McNamara, Richard Manning, Salamao Julia Manhica, Robin Mansell, Venancio Massingue, Tengku Mohd. AzzmanSharifadeen, Jay Naidoo, Eli Noam, Stephen Nolan, Joseph Okpaku, Maureen O’Neil, Aida
Opoku-Mensah, Daniel Piaggesi, Sam Pitroda, Beatrice Pluchon, Nii Quaynor, Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Art Reilly, Tony Rutkowski, Jonathan Solomon, Richard Solomon, Jim Steinberg, Ichiro Tambo, Jeffrey Sachs, Martin Sandelin, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Lyndall Schope-Mafole, Jean-Francois Soupizet, Daniel Stauffacher, Tadao Takahashi, Susan Telsher, Brian
Thompson, Herbert Ungerer, Paul Verhoef, Bernard Vergnes, Caroline Wagner, Abdul Waheed Khan, Mike Warner,Stewart White, Ernest Wilson, Gerolf Weigel, John Williamson, Mike Yates, Keith Yeoman, Raul Zambrano, Tony Zeitoun.
Author
Denis Gilhooly contributed this paper in an independent capacity as a member of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Science, Innovation & Technology. He is currently a Principal Adviser to the UN ICT Task Force having worked extensively in the public sector as Principal Adviser & Executive Coordinator, World Summit on the Information Society, Principal Adviser & Director, ICT for Development, United Nations Development Program, and Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Adviser, World Bank Group. He previously worked in the private sector as Vice President, Business Development, Teledesic, Media & Technology Director, The Wall Street Journal Europe/Dow Jones, and founding Editorial & Publishing Director, CommunicationsWeek International and The Networked Economy Conferences. He was a founding commissioner of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission, and a member of the Irish Government’s Advisory Committees on Telecommunications and ICT, the G8 Digital Opportunity Task Force and United Nations ICT
Task Force.