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Appendix B Biographical Summaries of Workshop Speakers and Steering Committee Members
Appendix B Biographical Summaries of Workshop Speakers and Steering Committee Members
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He has published papers on digital library product development, participatory design of product prototypes, and software development practices and tools. Prior to Xerox, Dr.
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He joined UNESCO in February 1982 as senior purchasing officer until 1988 when he became the chief of budgetary control and monitoring at the Section of Fellowships and Equipment Division. In 1993 he became chief of the Fellowship Section of UNESCO for a few months before being transferred to the Natural Science Sector as senior programme specialist at the Engineering and Technology Division responsible for the University-Industry-SciencePartnership programme assisting also the World Solar Programme.
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From 1992 to 1994, she was vice president of the International Social Science Council and has also served as chair of the NRC Steering Committee on Space Applications and Commercialization, the NATO Advisory Panel on Advanced Scientific Workshops/ Advanced Research Institutes, the AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, and the Advisory Committee of the Luxembourg Income Study. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the OpenGIS Consortium and the Advisory Board of the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies (South Africa)
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National Biological Information Infrastructure. He is also a member of the CODATA Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries, and co-chair of the Information Management Committee of Global Invasive Species Program.
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Robert Chen is CIESIN's Deputy Director and a Senior Research Scientist. He manages the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, a data center in NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System.
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Doyle developed and managed grant-making programs in basic and interdisciplinary academic research, higher education and diversity, science and technology for international development, and science education. Helen spent nearly ten years in New York City, where she majored in biochemistry at Barnard College and received her Ph.D.
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, an intergovernmental organization devoted to making biodiversity data freely and openly available via the Internet. He is also the director of the GBIF Secretariat in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Xiaofeng Fu is Professor and Director of the Information Division of the Administrative Center for China's Agenda 21, which is a part of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He also serves as Deputy Team Leader of the National Science Data Sharing Project Workshop, Deputy Director of the Science Data Sharing Project Office, and Member of the CODATA Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries.
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Guo later became director of the key lab of remote-sensing information science at the academy. A member of the National 863 Program Information Acquisition and Process Technology Theme Expert Team, Guo has served as executive deputy editor-in-chief of the Remote Sensing Journal and is a member of the editorial board of six Chinese and foreign magazines.
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Funan Huang graduated from The First Military Medical University in 1990 with a major in medicine, and obtained his Doctor's Degree from Chinese PLA General Hospital and Graduate Medical School in 1998 with a specialization in geriatric neurology and neurobiology. From 2000 to 2003, he worked at the Parkinson Research Unit in Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia.
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She began her work in scientific publishing at the American Astronomical Society, where she collaborated in the creation of one of the first fully electronic journals, The Electronic Astrophysical Journal Letters, with funding from the NSF.
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Li previously worked for the resources and environment data center that is housed in the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 1998 to 2000, he designed and built the Geographical Information System for Landslide Research for landslide risk assessment and landslide information exchange.
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She is Chair of the Spatial Data Committee of Chinese Associate of Geographical Information Systems and Secretariat General of the Working Group of Remote Sensing and Data Information Systems, China National Committee for IGBP.
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He presently focuses on environmental and climatic variation; climatic and environmental evaluation; and glacier change relating to global change. Previously, he served as chief scientist of the projects supported by the Chinese National Natural Sciences Foundation, the Basic Research Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Key Innovation Projects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as of related bilateral cooperation programs between China and the United States, Australia, and France.
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His most recent articles are "The Globalization of Private Knowledge Goods and the Privatization of Global Public Goods" (co-authored with Keith Maskus) , 7 Journal of International Economic Law No.
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After a stay at Utrecht University managing the multidisciplinary Urban Networks research program, he rejoined the Ministry's Directorate of Research and Science Policy as policy advisor on social sciences and information policies. Focusing on issues of access to data and information for research he acted as secretary of the Auditor General's committee advising on privacy protection in scientific research that led to the establishment of the Scientific Statistical Agency in The Netherlands.
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planning and coordinating international science programs and (2) representing the science community in international policy fora.
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National Academies in Washington, D.C., where he has worked in various senior professional capacities since 1984. Paul's area of emphasis is on issues at the interface of science, technology, and law, with primary focus on digital information policy and management.
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She is a developer of the Nexus Database System Portal and databases. She is a member of the Steering Committee for the South African Data Centre for Oceanography and of an expert advisory group that served as a Reference Group for the Institutional Research Information System tasked with the Data Specification Project of the Southern African Research & Innovation Management Association.
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Recent publications include "International Information Policy in Conflict: Open and Unrestricted Access versus Government Commercialization," in Borders in Cyberspace, Kahin and Nesson, eds., MIT Press 1997; "Borders in Cyberspace: Conflicting Public Sector Information Policies and their Economic Impacts," in Georg Aichholzer/Herbert Burkert (eds.) ; and "Public Sector Information in the Digital Age: Between Markets, Public Management and Citizens' Rights," Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2004)
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APPENDIX B 131 John Willinsky is currently the Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC)
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