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B. Biographical Summaries of Workshop Chairs, Presenters, andRapporteurs
Pages 87-92

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From page 87...
... Christopher E.H. Corbin is currently an analyst within the European Union eContentplus funded ePSIplus Thematic Network, where he has several responsibilities, including: the thematic area of the impact of the EU Directive on public sector information with respect to financial charges made by public sector information holders, coordinating Member State national meetings, providing regular news content to the ePSIplus Web site, and maintaining the ePSIplus scorecard which ranks EU member states' implementation of the directive.
From page 88...
... She participated in the OECD's Working Party on the Information ecEonomy, presented to the European Commission-funded ePSIplus conferences, and continued to take an interest in public sector information until she left the OFT in December 2008 to take up a post as a senior policy advisor at the United Kingdom's Intellectual Property Office. Javier Hernández-Ros is head of the, Access to Information Unit, DG Information Society and Media, at the European Commission.
From page 89...
... Kirsti Nilsen has also published a book chapter on e-government and another on international trade policy, along with articles and conference proceedings both on various aspects of information policy and in her other areas of interest. She is currently convener of the International Trade Treaties Working Group of the Canadian Library Association, and a past president of the Canadian Association for Information Science.
From page 90...
... His area of emphasis is issues at the interface of science, technology, and law, with a primary focus on digital information policy and management. Prior to that, he worked in the following capacities at the National Academies: director of the Office of International Scientific and Technical Information Programs, 1999-2008; associate executive director of the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, 1991-1999; and senior staff officer at the Space Studies Board, 1985-1991, where he managed projects on solar system exploration and environmental remote sensing programs for NASA.
From page 91...
... Graham Vickery is head of the Information Economy Group in the Information, Computer and Communications Policy Division of OECD in Paris. As head of the Information Economy Group and programme director for OECD information technology, he oversees digital content and industry programmes covering e-business, information economy, intangibles and intellectual capital, new technologies, industrial performance, manufacturing flexibility, work organization, and industry globalization.
From page 92...
... study titled Impact of the European Union Framework on the Free Flow of Geo Information and Geo Services. Her other research interests are policy development with respect to the role of the public sector in the geo information market and reuse of public sector information to develop value added products and services and Web 2.0 applications in Europe, Australia, the United States, and Canada.


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