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Jalel Akaichi received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille (France) in 1996 and then his Habilitation degree from the University of Tunis (Tunisia) in 2008. He is currently an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Master Science in Business Intelligence in the Computer Science Department of Institut Supérieur de Gestion. Jalel Akaichi has published in international journals, book edited chapters and conferences, presented various tutorials, and have served on the program committees of several international conferences and journals. He visited and taught in many institutions such as the State University of New York, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, INSA-Lyon, University of Blaise Pascal, University of Lille 1, University of Toulouse 1, etc.
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Víctor H. González-Jaramillo is a PhD. student at the Philipps- University of Marburg in Germany. He is also a Computer Science Engineer. He was an associate member at Geographic Information System Research Group in 2005 at Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja. Since 2008 he works at Hydrology and Climatology research group in the department of Geology / Mines and Civil Engineer. He is a professor of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) since 2009 until to the present. He also participates in the Working Group IDE Red CEDIA, an approach to impulse the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in Ecuador. Some of the fields of interest are the application of GIS and Remote Sensing to understand the human activity and the consequences that affect the Earth. He is also interested in the development of SDI and web applications for GIS.
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Sandra Elena is a lawyer with a Degree in Political Science and a Master’s in Legal Studies (American University, USA). She is a rule of law and open data expert with extensive experience in Latin America and other regions of the world. Since 1990, she has been involved in institutional analysis, civil society coalition-building, and political and legislative reforms in the following areas: the rule of law, transparency, anti-corruption, and open data. Her areas of expertise include qualitative and quantitative research, project management, contract negotiation, and program design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Ms. Elena has participated in long-term USAID/WB/IDB-funded projects in Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guyana, Ecuador, Pakistan, India, and Albania, among others. She is currently the Director of the Justice Program at CIPPEC, the biggest civil society organization and think tank in Argentina. As a Rule of Law Senior Advisor at IFES, she was in charge of providing legal assistance and helped implement projects on a diverse set of rule of law issues, including: legal aid, legal rights for women, judicial management and case management, transparency, independence and accountability of the judiciary, open data, and monitoring and evaluation in different regions and environments. Ms. Elena has substantive experience in the monitoring and evaluation of rule of law projects. In 2007, she drafted a report on the state of the evaluation of rule of law reform projects worldwide. This report, commissioned by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), has served as a valuable source of information for evaluation practitioners. She was a team leader of the evaluation of PROJUM (justice sector reform program of Argentina funded by WB). She is currently a member of the monitoring and evaluation team of the Modernization of Justice Program in Guyana.
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German Stalker is a lawyer with a MA in Administration and Public Policies from San Andrés University. He is an independent consultant for international organizations, governments, businesses and civil society organizations. Currently his main projects are linked to the Local Development and Justice Program of CIPPEC. Expert on Anti-Corruption and Democratic Governance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).Actually he works on the Technology Transfer Office of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). He worked in the public service: National Network Linking Technology, E-Linking Technology; Undersecretary for Institutional Reform and Strengthening of Democracy, Chief Cabinet Ministry; Secretary of Legal and Technical Affairs and Secretary of Environmental and Public Space of the City of Buenos Aires Government. He was a member of the Jury of the contest “Small Grants Competition: Innovation in Access and Use of Public Information” organized by the World Bank. He has been a speaker and moderated various conferences and seminars related to the topics of transparency, access to public information and citizen´s participation. He has several publications and is a teacher at CLAD (Centre for Latin-American Development).
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François van Schalkwyk, MEd from the University of the Western Cape (Thesis topic: Institutionalizing Responsiveness in Higher Education); MPhil in Publishing Studies (Distinction) from the University of Stirling (1996/7) (Thesis: On protecting authors: The anachronisms of copyright in the modern context); BA (Hons) in English (First Class) from the University of Cape Town (1995). Currently reading for his PhD in Science and Technologoy Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. François is an independent researcher working in the areas of open data, scholarly communication and higher education studies. He is conducting research as part of several projects, including: the Open Data in Developing Countries (ODDC) Project on (i) the instutionlisation of open data practice in Africa and (ii) the roles and types of open data intermediaries in developing countries. He is also the research lead on the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (HERANA) project on the contribution of university engagement projects to economic development in eight African universities; as well as on the Carnegie Corporation project on the changing revenue models of African universities presses. Completed research projects include the IDRC-funded Scholarly Communication in Africa Project (SCAP), in which he investigated the relationship between collaboration and improved online visibility of academics, and the ODDC project on the use of open data in university governance. Francois is also a trustee of the not-for-profit, open access publisher African Minds, and is managing director of the publishing services company, Compress.dsl. For a full list of publications, click here. @Francois_fvs2
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Michael P. Canares has more than ten years of development work experience at a progressive pace; from community-based development to country program management. His work involves project management, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building, internal audit, financial management, and development research in the Southeast Asian region. He completed law and accountancy degrees from the Holy Name University in the Philippines, Masters in Business Education from the University of San-Jose Recoletos, and MSc in the Faculty of Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Mr. Canares also has been trained in development evaluation from the University of Ulster and the EASY-ECO hosted by the Vienna University of Economics and Business, non-violent conflict from Tufts University, and development and inequality from Brown University. Mr. Canares is engaged in research and knowledge-building and his research work has been presented in conferences in the Philippines and abroad. His articles are recently published in the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship and in an edited volume on Urbanization and Poverty published by the Oxford University Press. Mr. Canares’ work in local governance prompted him to engage in research work on open data and open government, especially at the sub-national level and is currently a project manager at Worldwide Web Foundation’s Open Data Lab based in Jakarta. He also manages three open data research projects – open data and citizen engagement (OGP), open government portals and impact to intended users (HIVOS), and synthesis papers on open data intermediaries and subnational governments (IDRC-ODDC).
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