Open City Portal 

Open City Taskforce Members: 

Open City Portal is an open source city portal platform developed originally by the Light Houses taskforce supporting the Global Summit for Cities and Local Governments on Information Society in Bilbao.

Who we are?

Xabier Abaroa, Executive Secretary "World Summit on the Information Society; CENTRO CIFAL BILBAO

Ms. Nadin Afrin, Business and Policy Advisor, Development Gateway Foundation

Hannes Astok, Deputy Mayor of Tartu,  Director for municipal governments in E-Government Academy of Estonia

Jean-Pierre Auffret, PhD, Director, Technology Management Program, School of Management, Goerge Mason University, U.S.A.

Michael L. Best, Assistant Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

Lee-in Chen Chiu, Policy Advisor, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, R.O.C.(Taiwan)

Chika Chinwah, Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency, Nigeria

Dianne Davis, President, International Council on Caring Community, U.S.A.

Pablo de Manuel Triantafilo, Founder, Open City Technology, Spain

Yang Fenchun, Dean, Academy of e-Government, Peking University

Mark Fleeton, CEO, Development Gateway Foundation

Baharul Islam, Managing Director, South Asian Regional Development Gateway

Akbar Khawaja, President, Development Dividends, U.S.A.

Seang-Tae Kim, President of the Global e-Policy/e-Government Institute, Korea

Motoo Kusakabe, Senior Enterprise Fellow, School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of Essex, Former Vice-President, The World Bank 

Colin Macley, Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School, U.S.A.

Peter Mathias, Managing Director, Bridge Research and Development, U.K.

Samia Melhem, Chair, e-Development Thematic Group, Global Information and Communication Technology, the World Bank

Ingo Michelfelder, Boston Consulting

Yuri Misnikov, Leeds University, former ICT Advisor, United Nations Development Programme

Jayanta Mitra, Professor University of Essex, Director, School of Entrepreneurship and Business 

Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, President, United Cities and Local Government of Africa

Simon Morioka, Director, City and Guilds, U.K.

Toshio Obi, Professor, Waseda University, Director E-government Institute, and founder of the International CIO Academy;  

Ms. Mary O'Kane, Deputy Chair of the board, Development Gateway Foundation

Atsuko Okuda, Information Technology Officer, UN-ESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand

Ramón Peñagaricano, Senior Advisor for International Relations World Summit of Cities and Local Governments on the Information Society, CIFAL Bilbao

John Pennington, Director, Dedman Planning & Regeneration

Russell Pipe, Senior Associates, Kenan Institute Asia, Bangkok, Thailand

Daniel Rouach, Professor, ESCP-EAP European School of Management, France

Irina Sennikova, Dean, Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration, Latvia

Antonio Sfiligoj, Amministratore Delegato, BIC Trieste, Italy

Ivar Tallo, Senior Programme Officer, United Nations Institute of Training and Research, Geneva 

Tadao Takahashi, Chair, Latin America and Caribbean Chapter, Global Alliance of ICT for Development

Ichoro Tambo, Senior Assistant to the Director-General, Social Development Department, JICA, Japan

Ms. Bernadia Irawati Tjandradewi, Program Manager of the CITYNET

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