Steering Committee
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ISC Chair Dipak Khakhar, Sweden dipak.khakhar@ics.lu.se |
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Dipak Khakhar is Professor of Informatics at the University of Lund in Sweden. His current research focuses on Information Technology (IT) in context of globalization. He is Treasurer of IFIP and the Swedish representative to the Technical Committee for Communication Systems (TC-6). Dipak is initiator of IFIP World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) and is Chairman of Steering Committee of WITFOR 2007. | |
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Program Chair Leon Strous, The Netherlands strous@iae.nl |
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Leon Strous is senior IT-auditor in the Oversight Department of De Nederlandsche Bank, the central bank of the Netherlands. He is vice-president of IFIP, the IFIP General Assembly member for the NGI, the Dutch Computer Society and the chair of IFIP Technical Committee 11 on the Security and Protection of Information Processing Systems. He was an ISC member for WITFOR 2003 and is program chair for WITFOR 2007. | |
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Organizing Chair Debretsion Gebremichael, Ethiopia debre@eictda.gov.et |
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Debretsion Gebremichael is the Director of the Ethiopian ICT Development Agency (EICTDA). He is the Chair of National Organizing Committee of WITFOR 2007. | |
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Member Klaus Brunnstein, Germany brunnstein@informatik.uni-hamburg.de |
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Klaus Brunnstein is co-founder of the Faculty for Informatics, Hamburg University and a Professor for Application of Informatics at this university since 1973. His special areas since 1980 are data protection, computer and network security, incident and risk analysis of IT systems, legal and ethical aspects of informatics. In 1988 he founded the Virus Test Center (VTC) in Hamburg. His involvement in IFIP is long standing. Among others he was a founding member in 1976 of IFIP TC-9 "Relationship between Computers and Society". He is the IFIP president since 2002. | |
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Member Bogale Demissie, Ethiopia datavision@ethionet.et |
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Mr. Bogale Demissie is the Chief Executive Officer of DataVision International [Ethiopia] and Chairman and co-founder of DataVision International [Tanzania]. He is an international expert in ICT having over 36 years of experiences. He holds BSc. in Civil Engineering, MSc. in Computer Studies and Diploma in Statistics. He has held several IT related management and advisory posts in many countries [Africa, Europe, Middleast, Caribbean and Asia] as United Nations IT country resident and visiting advisor. He has published several IT related papers for internationally organized seminars and workshop and prepared quite a number of IT and related technical manuals. His expertise includes system, database, human resource development, and statistical data processing. He is a member of the British Computer Society, Association of Computing Machineries [ACM] of USA, Association of Information Technology Professional of USA, IEEE Computer Society, and Ethiopian Information Technology Professional Association in which he was the president from year 2003 to 2006. | |
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Member Sebastiaan von Solms, South Africa basievs@uj.ac.za |
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Sebastiaan von Solms has been the Chairman of the Academy for Information Technology of the University of Johannesburg in Johannesburg, South Africa, since 1978. He specializes in research and consultancy in the area of Information Security. He is extensively involved with IFIP and has been the chair of Technical Committee 11 on the Security and Protection of Information Processing Systems. He is currently the President-Elect of IFIP, and will start his term as President during the IFIP General Assembly meeting in August 2007 in Addis Ababa. | |
