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Delivering the Virtual Promise? from access to use in the
virtualsociety
Speakers
Richard Barrington
In March 2000 Richard joined the e-Envoys team as Director,
Industry. He is on secondment from Sun Microsystems where he
hasbeen Market Development Manger for e-Commerce, Java Evangelist,
Web Manager forhttp://www.sun.co.uk and latterly, e-
Government Sales Manager.
With over 20 years experience in IT, with 12 as IT Manager for
BEBC, the worlds largest EFL Bookseller, followed by 7 years in IT
andNetwork Sales and Management, Richard is ideally placed to
represent both the hunters and the gatherers of the new
economy.
Kevin Carey
Kevin Carey is the Founder/Director of humanITy, the worlds
first digital charity, which is concerned with ICT and Social
Exclusion. Heis a writer, broadcaster, public speaker, classical
music critic, and published poet. He has undertaken work in his
specialist field forthe Cabinet Office, DTI, DfEE, and the Library
and Information Commission.
Formally a health planner in developing countries, he now
combines his knowledge of development issues with an understanding
of
the possibilities and pitfalls of new technologies.
Professor Manuel Castells
Manuel Castells is Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC
Berkeley. His current research interests include
informationtechnology and social change in a comparative
perspective, particularly in the geographical areas of the United
States, WesternEurope, Russia, the Asian Pacific, and Latin
America. Professor Castells received his LLB, two Masters degrees
in Sociology, and aPh.D., and Doctorat d'Etat in Sociology from the
University of Paris. He is a member of the European Academy. His
books include
Technopoles of the World(with P. Hall; Routledge, 1994); The New
Global Economy in the Information Age (Penn State UniversityPress,
1993); The City and the Grassroots (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1983), and the three-part series, The
NetworkSociety(Blackwell, 1997).
Kim Howells MP
Dr Howells is MP for Pontypridd. He was educated at Mountain Ash
Grammar School, Hornsey College of Art, Cambridge College ofArt and
Technology and Warwick University.
Before becoming an MP in 1989, Dr Howells worked in a number of
industries, including coal and steel, and helped construct
aresearch archive on post war UK energy policy for University
College Swansea. He worked for the South Wales miners as
theirspokesman and research officer and wrote and presented
programmes for radio and television.
Dr Howells was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
for Lifelong Learning at the Department for Education andEmployment
in May 1997. He was previously opposition spokesman for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs in 1994 and oppositionspokesman for Home
Affairs in 1994. In 1995 he was appointed opposition spokesman for
Trade and Industry.
His political interests include industry, education and European
affairs and he enjoys painting, mountaineering, cycling, jazz
andliterature.
Michael Jacobs
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Michael Jacobs is head of the Fabian Society, the UK's senior
think tank. An environmental economist, Michael Jacobs was
formerlyan ESRC Research Fellow at the Department of Geography at
the London School of Economics and at the Centre for the Study
ofEnvironmental Change, Lancaster University. Originally a
community worker and adult educator, he later became a consultant
with andManaging Director of CAG Consultants, where he specialised
in urban regeneration and environmental policy and management.
He is the author of a number of academic articles and policy
reports on the political economy of the environment and
sustainable
development. His books include The Green Economy: Environment,
Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future (Pluto
Press, 1991), The Politics of the Real World (Earthscan, 1996),
and Greening the Millennium? The New Politics of theEnvironment(ed,
Blackwell, 1997). He recently authored a widely-read Fabian
pamphlet entitled Environmental Modernisation,analysing the new
Labour Government and environmental policy. Michael Jacobs is
Secretary to the Fabian Societys Commission on
Taxation and Citizenship and author of its report, Paying for
Progress: A New Politics of Tax , to be published in September
2000.
Bill Macintyre
William Macintyre is the head of Communications and Information
Industries Directorate in the UK Department of Trade and
Industry.
The Directorate is responsible for advice on and implementation
of the Government's policies towards the communications
andinformation industries. Prior to this he held several senior
posts in the Department of Energy, including head of the Division
dealingwith electricity privatisation.
A graduate of St Andrews University, he worked for the British
Petroleum Company prior to joining the UK Government service
in1972.
Margaret Moran MP
Margaret Moran (http://www.margaretmoran.org/) has been the
Member for Luton South since 1997. She previously worked inhousing,
local government, social services and education.
Margaret Moran is a former Director of the Housing Association.
She was Chair of the Housing Committee for six years on
LewishamBorough Council, and as Leader of the Council she
introduced a range of nnovative projects using new technology for
joined-upservice delivery and e-democracy.
Margaret Moran has been a member of the Northern Ireland Affairs
Select Committee and Public Administration Select Committee.She has
been a member of the Labour National Policy Forum, the Labour
Regional Party Executive, the Labour Urban Regeneration
Forum, andthe Labour Women's Network.
Margaret Moran was PPS to the Rt Hon Gavin Strang MP, as Cabinet
Minister for Transport between 1997-98.
Lord Stevenson of Coddenham CBE
Lord Stevenson is Chairman of Halifax Group plc . He is also
Chairman of Pearson plc and AerFi Group plc (formerly GPA
Groupplc), He is a non executive director of Manpower Inc, BSkyB
Broadcasting Group plc, J Rothschild Assurance Holdings plc,
LazardPartners and St James's Place Capital plc.
Having recently retired after 10 years as Chairman of the
Trustees of the Tate Gallery, he is Chairman of the Tate Gallery
Foundation.
He is also Chairman of the chamber orchestra, Sinfonia 21.
He is one of the two outside members of the Take-over-Panel
appointed by the Governor of the Bank of England to represent
industry.He is on the Boards of English Partnerships and the
British Council.
Having headed the Stevenson Commission set up by The Rt Hon Tony
Blair to examine the role of Information Technology in Schoolshe
has recently been appointed to be the Prime Minister's advisor on
the application of IT to education. He is a past chairman of
Aycliffe and Peterlee New Town Development Corporation, the
National Association of Youth Clubs and the Intermediate
TechnologyDevelopment Group.
Dr Richard Sykes
Dr Sykes is non-executive chairman of Morgan Chambers plc
(http://www.morgan-chambers.com), Europes largest
independentspecialist consultancy and advisor in strategic IS
sourcing, and IT and business process outsourcing.
A research scientist by training (Cambridge and Yale), he worked
at ICI 1973-1999, holding a number of commercial and
businessmanagement roles in the chemicals and plastics businesses
of the company. He travelled widely, including in Latin America and
Asia,living for three years in Japan as the Regional General
Manager of an ICI global business and a member of the Board of ICI
Japan. Hewas ICIs Vice President IT 1993 1999 when he lead a major
restructuring and outsourcing of corporate IT at a time of major
change
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