Heather Ford is a South African who has worked in the fields of internet policy, law and management in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. She is the Executive Director of iCommons, a UK private charitable corporation. Incubated by Creative Commons, iCommons is an organisation with a broad vision to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open education, access to knowledge, free software, …

Joi Ito , an activist, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has received much recognition for his role as an entrepreneur of Internet and technology companies. He has founded companies such as PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and is the founder and currently the CEO of the venture capital firm, Neoteny Co., Ltd.

I am completing my 4th and final year of Journalism at Rhodes University. I studied design and layout in my 3rd year, and decided to broaden my knowledge by specialising in New Media this year.

Ronaldo Lemos - Chairman Ronaldo Lemos is the director of the Center for Technology & Society (CTS) at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School in Rio de Janeiro. Dr. Lemos is the head professor of Intellectual Property Law at FGV Law School and is also the director of Creative Commons Brazil . He has an LL.B. and LL.D. from the University of Sao Paulo, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

Paula Le Dieu is the Director of iCommons. With more than 70 countries currently in the process of establishing local language and jurisdictional versions of Creative Commons licences and Science Commons projects, Paula's role is to ensure that the global creative and innovation domain grows and thrives. Prior to joining Creative Commons, Paula worked for the BBC in the role of Project Director for the Creative Archive.

Heather graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Journalism degree and has a certificate in Telecommunications Policy, Law and Management from the University of the Witwatersrand Link Centre. After working in the United Kingdom for Greennet and Privacy International, she went on to Stanford University in 2003 where she worked as a fellow in the Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship Program.

Web designer/developer with broad experience in both design and backend programming/architecture. Focused on web standards, usability, and the end user experience.

Rebecca Kahn - iCommons researcher and writer Rebecca Kahn is a freelance journalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She’s graduated from Rhodes University with an Honours Degree in English Literature, and is currently completing a Masters Degree in Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand. She’s written extensively about open licencing and intellectual property issues, for various publications, both in print and online and works part-time for iCommons.