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Nancy J. Hafkin
Coordinator
African Information Society Initiative
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
P.O. Box 3001
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tel.: +251 1 51 11 67
Fax: +251 1 51 05 12 (or +1 [212] 963-4957)
E-mail: hafkin.uneca@un.org (or nhafkin@hotmail.com)

Nancy J. Hafkin has a PhD in African history from Boston University, with a dissertation on the political economy of northern Mozambique from the mid-18th to the beginning of the 20th century. She is the editor, with Edna G. Bay, of African Women: Studies in Social and Economic Change (Stanford University Press) and African Women, a special issue of African Studies Review. She taught African history and women’s studies at the University of Massachusetts–Boston from 1969 to 1977 and then joined the African Training and Research Centre for Women of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as chief of research and publications. After 10 years there, she joined the Pan African Development Information System, also at ECA. Since 1975 her major focus has been on the link between information and communication technologies (ICTs) and development through ECA’s African Information Society Initiative.
 

Cathy-Mae Karelse
Director
INFOLIT, Adamastor Trust
14 Greenwich Grove
Station Road
Rondebosch 7700, South Africa
Tel.: +27 21 686 5070
Fax: +27 21 689 7465
E-mail: cmk@grove.uct.ac.za (soon to become cathymae99@hotmail.com)

Cathy-Mae Karelse has been involved in information work for the past 15 years, occupying positions in various nongovernmental organizations, with portfolios related to information and development. Over the past 5 years, she has focused more keenly on ICTs and gender, with specific emphasis on how people can use information-literacy competencies to become more empowered to participate in shaping the information society.
 

Shanyisa Anota Khasiani
Director
Family Support Institute
Professor
Population Studies and Research Institute
University of Nairobi
P.O. Box 30913
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel.: 226350
Fax: 247412
E-mail: fasi@africaonline.co.ke

Shanyisa Anota Khasiani has published widely in the areas of internal and international migration, including refugee movements in Africa, fertility, and family planning, and she identifies women’s advancement and gender as her areas of primary focus.
 

Gillian M. Marcelle
47 Thackeray Ave
London N17 9DT, UK
Tel.: 00 44 181 808 9421
Chairperson
Information Society Gender Working Group
Johannesburg, South Africa
Tel.: 00 27 12 841 2491
Fax: 00 27 12 841 3365
E-mail: gmarcelle@yahoo

For more than 11 years, Gillian M. Marcelle has pursued a varied career in telecommunications and ICT policy, as a consultant to nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and national governments. She has held academic posts, as well as positions with British Telecom and the UK’s telecommunications regulator, Oftel. She trained as an economist at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad, and later obtained postgraduate qualifications in international economics from the Kiel Institute of World Economics, West Germany, and in business administration from George Washington University, Washington, DC. She is pursuing a DPhil at the University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom, where her research focuses on technological capability-building processes in the African telecom sector. She has published on innovation policies of developing countries, telecom liberalization, and gender and development, and she is an Honourary Fellow of the British Telecommunications plc. Telecommunications Engineering Staff College.
 

Rachel Solange Mienje Momo
Director
Documentation Centre
African Regional Centre for Technology
Fahd House, Djilly Mbaye Avenue
BP 2435 Dakar, Senegal
Tel.: (221) 823 77 12
Fax: (221) 823 77 13
E-mail: arct@sonatel.senet.net

Rachel Solange Mienje Momo obtained her Diploma in Documentation in 1991 from the School for Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists of the University of Dakar. Since 1992 she has been the Director of the Documentation Centre of the African Regional Centre for Technology. She was active in the reorganization of the documentation centres of several UN organizations in Senegal, notably, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). She was equally effective in consultations on the new information technologies on behalf of UNIDO–Vienna, the World Intellectual Property Organization–Geneva, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and ECA. As well, she has participated in several international conferences and presented papers on the information system of the African Regional Centre for Technology and its impacts in several areas of development in Africa.
 

Hilda M. Munyua
Information Specialist
CAB International
Africa Regional Centre
ICRAF Complex
United Nations Ave, Gigiri
P.O. Box 633, Village Market
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel.: 254-02-521450
Fax: 254-02-521001 or 522150
E-mail: Hmunyua@cgiar.org

Hilda Munyua is on the boards of InterLink Rural Information Service and the Kenya Voluntary Women Rehabilitation Institute. She has been actively involved in managing and disseminating agricultural information to users since 1979. She has wide experience in information management, training, and project development and management.
 

Aida Opoku-Mensah
Program Officer
The Ford Foundation
P.O. Box 2368
Lagos, Nigeria
Tel.: +234-1-262-3970-2
Fax: +234-1-262-3973
E-mail: a.opoku-mensah@fordfound.org (or aidaom@hotmail.com)

From 1996 to 1998, Aida Opoku-Mensah was Regional Director of the Panos Institute’s southern Africa office in Lusaka, Zambia. She has also served as a Visiting Lecturer at City University, London, and is the Director of Southern Africa Regional Programmes at the Panos Institute in London. Her many publications include Signposts on the Superhighway: African Environment (A Handbook of Environmental Resources on the Internet for African Journalists) and Up in the Air: The State of Broadcasting in Southern Africa (Analysis and Trends in Six Countries). She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and the African Studies Unit of the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, and has an MA in communication policy studies from City University, London, United Kingdom, a BA in linguistics and Swahili from the University of Ghana, and a Diploma in International Relations from the University of London.
 

Josephine Ouedraogo
Director
African Centre for Women
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
P.O. Box 3001
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tel.: 251-1-51 12 63
Fax: 251-1-51 44 16
E-mail: OuedraogoJ@UN.org

Josephine Ouedraogo is a sociologist with professional experience in managing and assessing field projects and conducting surveys on economic and social issues related to local development. She is from Burkina Faso and is a former Minister of Family Affairs and National Solidarity of Burkina Faso.
 

Fatimata Seye Sylla
Director General
Solutions 3+
51-53 Bld Djily Mbaye
BP 21145
Dakar, Senegal
Tel.: 221 822 81 05
Fax: 221 821 23 59
E-mail: fsylla@telecomplus.sn

Fatimata Seye Sylla has an engineering degree in computer science from Le Havre Institute of Technology in France, a degree in education from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a management certificate from the West African subregional School of Management in Dakar, Senegal. As a teacher and researcher, she has for several years conducted a research project that introduces computers into the Senegalese educational system. As a teacher and consultant in computer science, she has worked as a manager for the Senegalese government, UNESCO, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, United States Agency for International Development, IDRC, and various private-sector organizations. She has conducted research and worked in the fields of ICTs, education, globalization, and gender.

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