The shift to a digital, knowledge-based economy should be capable of improving citizens' quality of life and the environment

Vidal, Francis

Chief Executive Officer

Francis Vidal Group

France
Francis Vidal has been Chief Executive Officer of the Francis Vidal Group

since 1978, which focuses on social strategy, mobilisation, communication,

outplacement and outsourcing. In 1994 he founded Telpro, a telemarketing,

Internet and intranet company.
Before entering consultancy he worked set up the French arm of the British

Leyland car company, and between 1970-77 he worked as General Counsel and

Secretary (HR/PR/Logistics) in charge of managing acquired companies for

Swedish firm Sandvik.

He is a Knight of the National Order of Merit, and holds a PMD from

Harvard Business School.

Vidigal, Luis

Deputy Director General for IT,

Tax and Customs

Ministry of Finance

Portugal
Luis Vidigal is Deputy Director General for IT, Tax and Customs at the

Portuguese Ministry of Finance. He is the creator and Executive

Coordinator of INFOCID, a national information infrastructure placing

multimedia kiosks with Internet access all over Portugal.

Mr Vidigal is also a member of the Task Force for Information Society in

Portugal and Professor at the National Institute of Public Administration,

co-ordinating Internet and multimedia training activities. A member of

numerous scientific and technology boards during his career, he has also

published over 20 papers on information management and is a regular

speaker at international conferences.

Virgo, Philip

Secretary General

EURIM

UK
Philip Virgo has been Secretary General of EURIM (the UK Parliamentary

Group on the Politics of the Information Society in an EU Context) since

1994, and is also Strategic Advisor for IMIS, a professional body for

IS/IT managers. He is director of Winsafe Ltd, a project/investment

appraisal, monitoring and audit company.

He has published numerous studies and reports on technology, market and

skills issues.

Waddell, Cynthia D

Disability Rights Compliance Officer

City of San Jose

USA
Cynthia D. Waddell is the Disability Rights Compliance Officer for the

City of San Jose, California, where she has developed accessible web page

design standards.

An internationally known speaker and author, she holds federal, state and

local government appointments in the USA addressing policy, legislation

and compliance with disability rights laws.

Waldner, Jean-Baptiste

Carrefour

France

Welin, Gerd

Swedish National Security Service

Sweden

Westholm, Carl-Johan

President and Chief Executive Officer, Swedish Federation of Trade

Sweden
Carl-Johan Westholm is President and Chief Executive Officer of the

Swedish Federation of Trade. The author of several books, he holds a PhD

in Political Science from the University of Uppsala.

Williams, Dr. Mariama

Gender/trade and development Consultant

Institute for Law and Economics

Jamaica
Dr. Mariama Williams is a Researcher and a Member of the Board of the

Institute for Law and Economics and a member of Women Working for

Transformation (both in Jamaica). She is also the Research Coordinator for

the Women's Strategic Planning Seminar on Gender and Trade, a project of

the Center of Concern and Development Alternative with Women for a New Era

(DAWN-Caribbean).
Dr. Williams has worked as a consultant with a many international and

national non-governmental and governmental organizations including the

Planning Institute of Jamaica and the Commission on the Status of Women,

San Francisco. She also worked for two years on the Economics and Trade

Project of the Network for Women in Development Europe (WIDE) in Brussels.
A member of the International Association of Feminist Economics, Williams

currently resides in Jamaica.

Yalamov, Todor

Research Fellow

Center for the Study of Democracy

Bulgaria

Todor Yalamov is a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of

Democracy in Bulgaria. Current research projects cover ISP market

development in Bulgaria and corporate governance in transition.
Mr Yalamov is also a content provider group manager at www.online.bg and Assistant

Professor of Management at Sofia University. He holds Masters degrees from

Rotterdam School of Economics and Sofia University.

You, Nicholas

Coordinator

Best Practices & Local Leadership Programme, UNCHS (Habitat)

Kenya

Zucker, William A

Partner

Head of Technology & Litigation

Gadsby & Hannah

USA

"Programmes that seek to serve women, but do not involve women in their

design and management, often fail to achieve their objectives and may even

deepen women's plight".

Dr Janice Brodman, Education Development Center, US

"Are you young, healthy and experienced in using the tools of digital

society? Welcome to the digital economy! Everything will work for you. But

what's happening for those who are not part of the favourite target group

of digital economy? Do they have any chance to become part of the digital

future?"

Elisabeth Slapio of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce, Germany

"The effects on the world economy of a fast-growing, entrepreneurial

knowledge sector that can source its workers anywhere over the internet

would be a more international global marketplace with less cultural

barriers".
Danielle Jones, Ericsson, Sweden

" When I have more virtual choices, I can put my time and energy into

physical meetings and interactions that are really valuable to me: that is

not driving every day to my office: it is taking the car to visit my

parents."
Marcel Bullinga, Author and Adviser on Internet issues to the Dutch

Government

Groupe Bull

68 Route de Versailles

78430 Louveciennes

France

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www.bull.com

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