develop campus networks for research and education, with emphasis on global integration and sustainability. His current side affiliations are: http://www.nsrc.org - the Network Startup Resource Center http://wire.less.dk - NGO and company co-founded with Tomas Krag http://wirelessll.org - a group of dedicated professionals working towards a world-wide, people-centered, inclusive Information Society http://wndw.net/ - Co-author of the Wireless Networking in the Developing World book. Sebastian holds a Ph.D. in Quantum Physics from the Technical University of Berlin in Germany, with a focus on optics, radio spectroscopy, photovoltaic systems and scientific programming. He loves and plays music, is fascinated and engaged with text, language and poetry in many forms. Sebastian can be reached at sebastian@less.dk
Jim Forster. Jim is passionate about extending the Internet. He started at Cisco in 1988 when it was quite small and spent 20 years there, mostly in IOS Software Development and System Architecture, and becoming a Distinguished Engineer. While at Cisco he started working on projects and policies to improve Internet access in developing countries. Now he is engaged in both for-profit and non-profit efforts to extend communications in Africa and India. He founded networktheworld.org, a foundation dedicated to improving communications and Internet, especially in Africa and India. He is on several Board of Directors, including Range Networks / OpenBTS and Inveneo in the US, Esoko Networks in Ghana, and AirJaldi in India. Jim can be reached at jforster@networktheworld.org
Klaas Wierenga. Klaas works in the Research and Advanced Development group at Cisco Systems where he focuses on Identity, Security and Mobility topics, often in collaboration with the Research and Education Community. He is co-author of the Cisco Press book "Building the Mobile Internet". Prior to joining Cisco he worked at SURFnet, the Dutch Research and Education Network, where he created the global WiFi roaming service in academia called eduroam. He is also the Chair of the Mobility Task Force of TERENA, the European association of R&E Networks. Klaas participates in a number of IETF working groups in the fields of identity, security and mobility and chairs the abfab working group that deals with federated identity for non-web applications. He can be reached at klaas@wierenga.net
