In 1978, Mr Salter moved to Canada to work as a research engineer with Bell Northern Research and subsequently as Director, Customer Engineering with Northern Telecom. Mr Salter then moved to SR Telecom as Director, Marketing, and spent five years designing and marketing rural telecommunications systems worldwide. Mr Salter then accepted a position as a senior Telecommunication Specialist with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Mr Salter was responsible for CIDA projects in the Americas and in Africa. After four years in this position, Mr Salter returned to the private sector first as Director, Systems Engineering and then Executive Vice President of Com Dev (a Canadian company that designs and manufactures electronic sub systems for satellites). Mr Salter then worked at Deloitte and Touche as a Senior Telecommunications consultant focussing on SE Asia.

For the last 18 months, Mr Salter has occupied the position of Director, Science and Technology at CIDA.

Chris graduated in General Science from the University of Toronto and later crossed into the social sciences and humanities with an MSc in the History and Social Studies of Science from the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex.

After graduating from the U of T Chris was a secondary school teacher of science first in Canada and then in Sarawak with CUSO. After completing graduate studies in the UK he was Senior Tutor for four years in the Department of History at the University of Papua New Guinea. Before joining the Centre Chris was the Associate Director for Overseas Programs for World University Service Overseas of Canada.

She has worked as a senior management consultant with Watson Wyatt World Wide and previous to this she was Director of Research at the Public Management Research Centre, the research arm of the Public Policy Forum. Jennifer has developed an expertise in the area of public sector reform and renewal. Specifically, she has worked on projects related to HR renewal, change management, alternative service delivery, performance reporting and management, and other related HR issues, such as compensation, retention, recruitment, rewards and recognition, succession planning and pension reform. In addition, Jennifer has conducted HR benchmarking exercises in both public and private sector organizations.

Jennifer has worked on a number of change management projects, organizational reviews, business planning exercises, competency development and assessments, developing performance management frameworks and the development and implementation of values frameworks within a number of federal departments and agencies.

Jennifer has a Masters of Public Administration from Carleton University. Previous to this, she obtained a BA, Highest Honours in sociology and a BA, psychology from Carleton and York University.

Since returning to Canada, Steve has worked for the International Development Research Centre managing the Unganisha project; an initiative to improve the capacity of researchers in developing countries to utilize information and communication technologies for collaboration and information dissemination. He is now a senior programme officer at the Bellanet International Secretariat and is involved in developing capacity building resources for the more effective use of information and communication technologies.

Barbara earned the Bachelor of Arts in English and History from Anderson University and the Master of Arts and Ph.D. in English from Ball State University. She completed the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University in 1991

Currently hosting and facilitating more than a dozen virtual conversations and work groups, Barbara has supported Internet-based collaborations among a wide variety of groups and organizations, including several start-up businesses, an association of professional educators, a TV documentary production team, a community grant-writing consortium, and a corporate global team developing a strategic joint venture. She publishes an electronic newsletter and an online journal and has customized several groupware environments to support the collaborative work of her own virtual team.