Giulia D'Amico

Giulia D'Amico is currently in charge of the Development Dept at One Laptop per Child Association. She is a consultant for International Relations, and had conducted Bilateral and Multilateral Governments' agreements. Working directly in the field, she has extensive experience in geopolitics. She has worked for the Italian Government, National Agency on Youth, Ministry of Youth and as Deputy Director of the Peacebuilding Department at the Glocal Forum. Giulia holds a degree in Business and a MA in International Management from LUISS University in Rome. She is also an Advisor for the Development Gateway Foundation     

Javier Cardona

Javier Cardona is CEO and Founder of cozybit. He started dissecting and disassembling electronic devices while still a child in his home town of Barcelona, Spain. Hoping to learn how to put them together again, he acquired a Telecommunications Engineering degree from UPC, Spain, and a Master of Engineering degree from Alari, Switzerland. He has since developed embedded software in France, the US, UK and Switzerland. Javier also completed an Executive Program for Entrepreneurship at Babson College and the Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford University. It was while working as a research fellow at the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley that he became aware of the impact open source could have on the embedded software market. He began to envision a software engineering company that would help electronic equipment manufacturers take advantage of open source in their designs and thus, cozybit was born.

Christoph Derndorfer

Christoph Derndorfer has been a member of OLPC (Austria) since it was founded in mid-2007 and took on the role of a co-editor of olpcnews.com in May 2008. Since autumn of 2008 he has also continually supported the Austrian OLPC pilot project. In 2009 he volunteered with OLE Nepal in Kathmandu for 3 months. In mid-2010 he spent 6 weeks traveling through Uruguay, Paraguay, and Peru to observe how the OLPC projects in these countries are going. He subsequently reported his findings via talks in Lima, Washington, D.C. and Boston as well as articles on olpcnews.com. Other than that he has co-authored the Activity Handbook, given a number of presentations about OLPC and Sugar at Austrian universities and various events and conferences in Austria and Germany and contributed to OLPC and Sugar Labs in numerous other ways. In his non-OLPC life he is a computer science student at Vienna University of Technology and a researcher within the field of ICT and Sustainability at the Club of Rome - European Support Centre.

Nick Doiron

Nick Doiron is a programmer and curriculum editor for the Kasiisi Project and DigiLiteracy.org He works with a variety of OLPC activities and recently taught maps, sensors, and programming to 250 students in rural Uganda ( http://MapUganda.blogspot.com ). He hopes to share strategies for pushing the limits of the XO and preparing students to take part in designing the future of technology.

Daniel Drake

Daniel has worked as an OLPC contractor and volunteer on 8 OLPC country deployments. Most of his experience is on the logistics and technical fronts. He has also worked on the OLPC engineering team as an intern and contractor, developing the OLPC software releases and the XO-1.5 laptop. He is currently working on ongoing maintenance of the XO-1 and XO-1.5 software releases.

Adam Holt

Adam served as OLPC's community support manager since 2007, organizing our grassroots network of technologists and educators and managing our repair centers and Contributors Program. He has been involved with many projects in Haiti over the past two years. He currently splits his time between Haiti and Boston. He also connects members of various deployments to their most potent resource yet-- each other. Adam is the friendly face on many of OLPC's mailing lists, chat rooms and message boards. When members of the OLPC community need support (or perhaps a little management), they call Adam. Regardless of what time zone they are in, they can usually reach him.

Bernie Innocenti

Bernie Innocenti is a firmware engineer, member of the Free Software Foundation and founder of Develer, a high-tech consulting business based in Italy. Three years ago, Bernie joined One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) in Boston as a volunteer developer and later co-founded Sugar Labs, a community-driven NGO promoting world-wide access to open education through Sugar, the constructionist computing environment for young learners which powers the XO laptops. Bernie has been working on-site with several OLPC deployments, where he helped develop the Dextrose system software for the XO-1 and XO-1.5.

Mary Lou Jepsen

Mary Lou's recent work has contributed to putting 2 million laptops into the hands of some of the poorest children in the developing world. She was named one of the hundred most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2008 for her work in creating One Laptop per Child (OLPC) where she led the engineering and started the organization (with Nicholas Negroponte). Wired Magazine credits her laptop architecture design with starting the low-cost laptop revolution; these low-cost laptops now comprise about 1/4 of the entire laptop market just two years after mass production commenced. To bring OLPC's display innovations to the vastly larger commercial market, Mary Lou founded Pixel Qi Corporation in 2008 and is its CEO. Previously, Mary Lou has founded 4 companies, served as a professor at RMIT (Australia) & MIT, and in executive management at Intel Corporation. Mary Lou holds a Ph.D. in Optical Sciences, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Art (req.) all from Brown University as well as a Master of Science in Holography from the MIT Media Lab.

SJ Klein

Samuel Klein directs community outreach for the OLPC Foundation, which he joined in 2006 to coordinate community creation. He has visited or worked with OLPC deployments on every continent. He regularly gives talks to promote universal access to a shared body of human knowledge, and the power of human connection and collaboration. Outside of OLPC, he is a Trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation, an affiliate of Harvard's Berkman Center, and a curator of curious codices.

Ed McNierney

Ed McNierney, CTO of OLPC, is an experienced software industry veteran, having served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Software Development for companies ranging from early-stage startups to major commercial vendors. He’s served as Director of Spreadsheet Development for Lotus, building the company’s first Windows spreadsheet product, and as VP of Digital Strategy for Eastman Software, a subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Company.

Most recently he was a co-founder of TopoZone, the first online topographic mapping and aerial photography service, acquired by Demand Media in 2007. He holds an A. B. degree in Organic Chemistry from Dartmouth College and lives in Groton, Massachusetts where he is an active board member of several environmental and conservation organizations.

Laura Hosman

Laura Hosman is Associate Chair and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Illinois Institute of Technology College of Science and Letters. Laura has an on going project in Haiti. This involves mentoring and supervisng her students both at ITT and in the field in Haiti. Laura and her team of studens recently completed a major project of supplying solar power to a school  and settiing up charging stations for the XOs used at the school.

Bruce Baikie

Bruce is CEO & Founder of Green WiFi. Bruce has developed charge controllers for interfacing solar panels with XOs and has mentored IIT students in this technology and deployment of it in Haiti. Bruce has aso ben involved with deployments in Africa and has been developing a novel low cost cloud infrastructure. Bruce's 20 year career has been with two major computing companies supporting telecom industry strategic alliances and technical expertise in internet services and data center infrastructure. His areas of expertise include systems architectures, Green Data Centers and next-generation wireless and broadband services. Mr. Baikie has published numerous white papers and articles on M2M, mobile music, data center operations, and Wi-Fi operations. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University and studies in International Business from the University of Wisconsin.He also a member of Engineers without Borders.

Carol Ruth Silver

Carol Ruth Silver has most recently been a pro bono consultant at Paiwastoon Network Services, which is the technical and implementation partner of OLPC-Afghanistan. She is a passionate advocate for extension of the OLPC laptop program beyond government schools, which serve only approximately fifty per cent of Afghanistan's children. The other half are predominantly girls in rural areas, presently growing up illiterate, or served by local Community Based Schools. Because of her persistence, the proposal for the next extension of the OLPC-Afghanistan program in Afghanistan calls for committing 40% of new deployments to Community Based Schools. Carol Ruth Silver has founded or co-founded numerous organizations, including the Hayward-Ghazni (Afghanistan) Sister City Committee and Master Teachers by Satellite for Afghanistan, and in her earlier career the Chinese American International School. She was elected and served three terms on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, as well as being President of the Board of the Golden Gate Bridge, and of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

Claudia Urrea

As the Director of Learning for Latinoamerica at OLPC, Claudia Urrea is in charge of designing, developing, and implementing a learning vision for the region. She also collaborates with all One Laptop per Child (OLPC) learning teams and local coordinators in countries around the world to provide a solid learning development program. Claudia Urrea was born in Colombia, where she received an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from EAFIT University. In the mid 90s, she moved to the US, where she received her Master's degree in Educational Media and Technology from Boston University, and her doctorate degree from the MIT Media Laboratory. Her PhD thesis studied the implications of one to one learning in a rural setting in Latinoamerica. She helps empower and support schools and communities of learners to evolve from traditional teaching methods and material into progressive learning environments using state of the art technologies developed at MIT-Media Lab.

Claudia holds a visiting research position with the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, and teaches an Anthropology class at the Harvard Summer Program. She has consulted with ministries of education (Colombia, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Haiti) and organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank, and SEED-Schlumberger to rethink learning.

Claudia has created a number of resources for OLPC/Sugar deployments. She has also helped compiled resources and materials in Spanish. She facilitates a weekly chat with Spanish speaking teams.

Sameer Verma

Sameer Verma is Professor of Information Systems at San Francisco State University. His research focuses on the diffusion and adoption of innovative technologies. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Verma has worked with companies in consulting capacity in the areas of content analysis, management and delivery. He has helped start OLPC volunteer efforts in San Francisco, Jamaica, Armenia Tuva and India. He is the founder and chief organizer of the OLPC-San Francisco volunteer community (http://olpcsf.org). He can be reached at sverma@sfsu.edu