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 Gina Kupfermann is graduate engineer in energy management and holds a degree in engineering and business. Besides her profession as financial controller she has worked for various self-organised community projects and non-profit organisations. Since 2005 she is member of the executive board of the development association for free networks, the legal entity of freifunk.net

Adam Messer. Originally trained as an insect scientist, Adam Messer metamorphosed into a telecommunications professional after a chance conversation in 1995 led him to start one of Africa's first ISPs. Pioneering wireless data services in Tanzania, Messer worked for 11 years in eastern and southern Africa in voice and data communications for startups and multinational cellular carriers. He now resides in Amman, Jordan.

Juergen Neumann (http://www.ergomedia.de) started working with information technology in 1984 and since then has been looking for ways to deploy ICT in useful ways for organizations and society. As a consultant for ICT strategy and implementation, he worked for major German and international companies and many non-profit projects. In 2002 he co-founded www.freifunk.net, for spreading knowledge and social networking about free and open networks. Freifunk is globally regarded as one of the most successful community-projects in this field.

Frédéric Renet is a co-founder of Technical Solutions at Adapted Consulting, Inc. Frédéric has been involved in ICT for more than 10 years and has worked with computers since his childhood. He began his ICT career in the early 1990s with a bulletin board system (BBS) on an analog modem and has since continued to create systems that enhance communication. Most recently, Frédéric spent more than a year at IESC/Geekcorps Mali as a consultant. In this capacity, he designed many innovative solutions for FM radio broadcasting, school computer labs and lighting systems for rural communities.