WSIS CIVIL SOCIETY
WORKING GROUP on FINANCING MECHANISMS
TFFM Composition
Task Force Members
- Task Force Chair: Mark Malloch Brown, UNDP Administrator (Alternate: Shoji Nishimoto, Assistant
Administrator and Director, Bureau for Development Policy)
- Ali Abbasov, Minister of Communication and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan;
- Sérgio Amadeu da Silveira, Director-President, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia da Informação,
(Alternate: Mauricio Augusto Coelho Chief of Cabinet, ITI Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia da
Informação) Brazil;
- Owen Barder, Representative, European Union on behalf of the Netherlands EU-Presidency;
- Michel Chertok, Representative, Global Knowledge Partnership
- Jim Crowe, Deputy Director, Foreign Affairs/United Nations and Commonwealth Division, Canada;
- Ahmed Darwish, Minister of State for Administrative Development, Egypt;
- Mamadou Diop Decroix, Minister of Communications of Senegal (Alternate: Mr. Amadou Top, Deputy
Manager, Digital Solidarity Fund);
- Alar Ehandi, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Look@World Foundation, Estonia;
- Anriette Esterhuysen, Executive Director, Association for Progressive Communications (Alternate:
Willie Currie, Communications and Information Policy Programme Manager);
- Nissim Ezekiel, former Executive Director, Commission on Private Sector and Development;
- Jonathan Fiske, Senior Manager, Group Public Policy, Vodafone Group Services Ltd;
- Ayesha Hassan, Senior Policy Manager, International Chamber of Commerce; (Alternate: Bill
Stribravy, ICC Permanent Representative c/o US Council for International Business)
- Mohsen Khalil, Director, Global Information and Communication Technologies, the World Bank
(Alternate: Pierre Guislain Manager, Policy Division (CITPO) Global Information &
Communication Technologies Department, the World Bank Group);
- Sarbuland Khan, Director, Office of ECOSOC Support and Coordination, United Nations Department of
Economic Social Affairs;
- Ayisi Makatiani, Chairman, Gallium Venture Capital and CEO, African Management Services Company
- Zouhair Masmoudi, Director-General, Ministry of Communication Technologies and Transport
(Alternate: HE Ali Hachani, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Mission
of Tunisia to the United Nations, Tunisia;
- Rajendra Pawar, CEO, NIIT, India;
- Gisa Fuatai Purcell, Secretary/ICT Advisor Samoa National ICT Committee Ministry of Communications
and Information Technology, Samoa
- Daniel Stauffacher, Representative, Switzerland, Swiss Executive Secretariat for WSIS;
- Ichiro Tambo, Development Co-operation Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD),
- Hamadoun Toure, Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU (Alternate: Pape-Gorgui
Toure, Chief, Policies, Strategies, and Financing Department, ITU);
- Pedro Urra Gonzàlez, Director, Infomed, Cuba; * unable to participate in the TF meetings
- Yoichiro Yamada, Director, Specialized Agencies Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan;
- Mohamed Yunus, Managing Director, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh. *unable to participate in TF
meetings
Observers
- José Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Department of
- Economic and Social Affairs
- Charles Geiger, Assistant Executive Director WSIS Secretariat WSIS;
- Janis Karklins, President of the WSIS Preparatory Committee for the Tunis Phase
- Rik Panganiban, Communications Coordinator, Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with
- the United Nations (CONGO) (29 November TF meeting)
- Pietro Sicuro, Directeur, INTIF, Gestionnaire du Fonds francophone des inforoutes, Organisation
- internationale de la Francophonie (4 October TF meeting)
- Research & Drafting Group
- David Townsend, Lead Consultant
- Benoît d'Ansembourg, ODA Research
- Susanne Hesselbarth, ODA Analysis
- Sonia Jorge, Domestic Financial Mechanisms & other inputs
- Isabel Neto, IFI/MDB Research
Expert Contributions & Inputs
- Jérome Adam, Conseiller du Directeur General Groupe Agence Francaise De Développement
- Harry De Backer, Advisor ICT and R&D for Development, European Commission, DG Development
- Astrid Dufborg, Ambassador/Special ICT Advisor Permanent Mission of Sweden, Geneva
- David Fares, earlier Vice President, Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications, United States
- Council for International Business (USCIB)
- Bruce Girard, Communica
- Pierre Guislain, Manager, Policy Division (CITPO) Global Information & Communication Technologies
- Department, the World Bank Group
- Anita Gurumurthy and Parminder Jeet Singh, IT4Change, India
- Tim Kelly, Head, Strategy and Policy Unit, ITU
- Christian Ossa, Senior Advisor, Financing for Development, United Nations DESA
- Sean O Siochru, Nexus Research
- Edward Malloy, Telecom/IT Policy Advisor, USAID
- Sergei Kambalov, Deputy Executive Coordinator, Secretariat, United Nations ICT Task Force
- SDC, Switzerland
- Russell Southwood, Balancing Act
- Pape-Gorgui Toure, Chief, Policies, Strategies, and Financing Department, ITU
- Peggy Vissers, Policy Advisor United Nations & IFIs Dept, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands
- Gaston Zongo
Online Consultation
- Bertrand de la Chapelle, Director, wsis-online.net
Task Force Secretariat
- Valenina Azzarello, Maria Remy Castillo, Radhika Lal, Atsushi Yamanaka, Raul Zambrano of UNDP &
Julianne Lee.
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