Professor Paul Foley

Professor Paul Foley has more than 25 years experience assisting public and private sector organisations with technology adoption, policy development, regeneration and social inclusion. He is a board member of the UK Digital Inclusion Team and has worked with International organisations (OECD and EC), national governments (Australia, Oman, Sweden, Syria, Panama, Poland). He has excellent working relationships with numerous UK central government departments and Regional government offices. Paul has been an adviser for several important UK policies, including the Local Government White Paper, digital inclusion and local information systems.

Dr David Osimo

Dr David Osimo has 15 years experience of EU policies and projects. He worked from July 2005 to June 2008 in the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, where he was coordinating research activities on e-government, with a particular focus on the future impact of emerging technologies such as web2.0. Previously he worked as policy advisor and project manager on the information society strategy of the Emilia-Romagna region, where among other projects he coordinated the regional benchmarking programme and led the UNDERSTAND project. These projects developed common regional indicators on information society across EU regions

Prof. Cristiano Codagnone (x)

Professor Cristiano Codagnone as independent consultant collaborating with various organisations (i.e. RSO SpA and MIP of Milan Polytechnic University) between 2005 and 2008 has< managed projects for EC DG INFSO (Units C1, H1, H2, H3) and for JRC IPTS Seville, for Greek central level government agency (Greek Observatory for the Information Society), and for Italian regional level governments (Emilia Romagna and Lombardy Regional Administrations). He has also served one year as Project Officer in the “eGovernment for Development” programme of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)

(x) Professor Codagnone joined the European Commission Joint Research Centre  in september 2009 for a 2 year contract and has therefore stepped down as director of Tech4i2 until the end of the contract (due August 2011).