Fred Mednick

Fred Mednick, a principal for almost 20 years, founded Teachers Without Borders in order to address a pressing need for durable educational change and solutions, worldwide, at the secondary level.
Teachers without Borders

Manohar Bhattarai

Serving currently as a full-time Member of High Level Commission for Information Technology, an ICT policy and strategy body formed under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Nepal, Manohar has been actively involved in developing strategies for social appropriation of ICTs in Nepal. Working under a broad theme of ICTs for development and harnessing power of ICTs to effectively complement service delivery in key strategic areas like health and education, Manohar has been actively involved in the roll out of community owned rural telecentres in various parts of Nepal since the inception of Nepal's nascent telecentre movement. In addition, he was involved in formulating Nepal's IT Policy and Strategy in the year 2000 and also currently serves as one of the key members of the steering committee formed to develop strategic framework for the implementation of eGovernment related initiatives in Nepal.

Ramita Shrestha

Since 2004, Ramita has managed a small technology center for rural villagers to gain access to critical content for development. Despite civil war in Nepal during 2005 and 2006, Ramita was able to keep her center functioning without any external funding. Today, her center attracts up to 50 remote villagers (who often make the 3-hour trek one way). As an active community mobilizer, Ramita dedicates her life to support women's groups, small entrepreneurs, and farmer cooperatives by providing access to localized content suited for Himalayan livelihoods and in various Nepalese languages.

Brian Lamb

Brian is the Emerging Technologies Discoordinator at the Office of Learning Technology at The University of British Columbia. He has spoken and written extensively on cool stuff!
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/