WSA ONLINE JURY 2018

All nominated applications for the WSA will be carefully reviewed and evaluated by an especially assembled Online Jury consisting of international experts. This Online Jury pre-selects the best 15 to 18 products in each of the eight WSA categories, the so called Short List.

WSA ONLINE JURORS

Agang K. Diltlhogo

Co-Founder

The Clicking Generation

Botswana

Andrei Postaru

Lecturer at the Software Engineering and Automatics Department

Technical University of Moldova

Moldova

Marcelle Attard

Project Coordinator Information Society

Malta Communications Authority

Malta

Krislin Goulbourne-Harry

Founder

EKAPPS

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Panos Katsampanis

Co-Founder

The European Sting

Belgium

Astrid J. Scholz

Managing Partner and CEO

Sphaera

United States of America

Gica Trierweiler

Co-founder

Instituto Beaba

Brazil

Prof. Anicia Peters

Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Development

University of Namibia

Namibia

Francis Obirikorang

CEO

AgroCenta

Ghana

Babak Fakhamzadeh

IT consultant, designer, developer

B's projects

Brazil

Sher Shah Rahim

President/CEO

Intellectual Applications & Products

Afghanistan

Sandra Fazenda Almeida

Executive Director

APDC – Digital Business Community

Portugal

Natasha Lazarovska-Trajcheski

Co-founder and Executive Board Member

Startup Macedonia

North Macedonia

Agha Hamza

Country Head and Ambassador

Hello Tomorrow Pakistan Hub

Pakistan

Katarzyna Klimek

Co-founder / COO

Klub Aktywnych

Poland

Fadwa Murad

Director, ICT Incubator

Syrian Computer Society, Syria

Syrian Arab Republic

Jan Schwaab

Head Digital Transformation in Africa

GIZ

Germany

Josephine Nzerem

Director, Venture & Fellowship

Ashoka Africa

Nigeria

Ian Lorenzen

Executive Director and Partner

Growth Africa

Kenya

Carolina Rossi

Senior Partner

Moon Advisors

Italy

Tanja Wehsely

CEO

Volkshilfe Wien

Austria

Ilkka Kurkela

Development Manager

Laurea University of Applied Sciences

Finland

Ismail Wahdan

Head of E-government Section

Greater Amman Municipality

Jordan

Mbuyu Lucas Makayi

Developer

BongoHive

Zambia

Ahmed M. El-Sobky

Vice CEO

Information Technology Industry Development Agency “ITIDA”

Egypt

Gary Schwartz

President

Candian Lenders Association

Canada

Zikry Kholil

Chief Inciter

The Incitement

Malaysia

Tahar Jarboui

CEO

Valomnia

Tunisia

David Shelters

Entrepreneur-In-Residence

Mekong Strategic Partners

Cambodia

Sachi Wickramage

Serial Entrepreneur

i4T Global

Australia

Ivan Caballero

CEO

The Social Coin

Spain

Safa Nasserldin

Vice President

Alquds University

Palestine

Monica Nthiga

Regional Director - East Africa

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Kenya

Anatoliy Kremenchutskiy

Academician ; Director

International Academy of Informatization ; India-Kazakhstan Centre of Excellence in ICT

Kazakhstan

Jean-Luc Scherer

Founder and CEO

Innoopolis

France

Chris Georgiev

Imagga, StartUP Foundation Bulgaria, Sticky Creative

Imagga

Republic of Korea

Christoph Höbart

Interface- and Communication Designer | Entrepreneur

Austria

Madanmohan Rao

SPECIAL AMBASSADOR FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT | Chief Researcher

Mobile Monday

India

Rudy Laddaga Lopez

Chief Content Officer

Citizens Company

Mexico

Anne Githuku-Shongwe

Director of the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa.

UN AIDS

South Africa

Ralph Simon

CEO & Founder; Chairman Emeritus & Founder

Mobilium International; Mobile Entertainment Forum-Americas

United Kingdom

Chitranganie Mubarak

Consultant on Digitization for Social Good and Joint Coordinator for Women’s Research

CENWOR

Sri Lanka

Osama Manzar

Founder & Director

Digital Empowerment Foundation

India

Witman Hung

Principal Liaison Officer for Hong Kong

Shenzhen Qianhai Authority

China

Slobodan Franeta

Founder

Lucha Science Institute

Montenegro

Kristine Zunde

Project Manager

Latvian IT Cluster

Latvia

Alex Hung

CEO

Crossover International Co. Ltd.

China

Vladimír Burčík

CEO

iLearn Online Learning Centre

Slovakia

Andreu Vea

Founder and Director

WiWiW.org (Who is Who in the Internet World)

Spain

Alexander Felsenberg

Head of Innovation, Development and CSR

Circet Deutschland GmbH

Germany

Anna Piperal

Managing Director

Estonia

Herman van Oorschot

Media enterpreneur

Fullmoon Interactive Solutions

Netherlands

Micael Gustafsson

Managing Director

Cluster 55

Sweden

Kristian Bruarøy

CEO

Bridj

Norway

Rahat Hossain

Program Manager

AYAT

Bangladesh

Dritan Mezini

Senior consultant and Managing Director

DM Consulting Services

Albania

Tore Haugland

CEO

Ouvi

Brazil

Juan de Urraza

CEO

Posibillian Tech

Paraguay

Suny MD Ashraf Khan

CEO and Managing Director

Multimedia Content & Communications (MCC) Ltd.

Bangladesh

Ashraf Al-Astal

Business Development Expert, Founder of 1plus1.business

1plus1.business

Palestine

Rafael Antonio Ibarra

IT Director

Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Canas

El Salvador

Badr Ward

CEO

LAMSA

United Arab Emirates

Karim Mohamed Attoumani

PMO & Regulatory Project Manager

Telecom Comores – Telma Group branch in Comoros

Comoros

Sergio Llano

Professor

Universidad del Norte

Colombia

Manar Al Hashash

CEO

DotDesign

Kuwait

Rudi Daniel

Independent Consultant ICT4dev and Internet Governance

ICT4dev and Internet Governance

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Ehssan Riazi Esfehani

IT Consultant

Hamsafar eSolutions

Iran

Abdelrahman Noureldien

Dean

Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology at University of Science and Technology

Sudan

Troy Weekes

Chief Executive Officer

EZLearner Inc.

Barbados

Christelle Scharff

Founder

MobileSenegal Hub

Senegal

Adamou Iro

Conseiller Technique

Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications et de la Poste/ Cabinet du Premier Ministre

Niger

Derek Lakudzala

Partner

BUMAS International

Malawi

Poncelet Ileleji

President

Information Technology Association of the Gambia

Gambia

Dagmawi Lemma

Head of the Computer Science Department

Addis Ababa University

Ethiopia

Baudouin Schombe

Coordinator

Centre Africain d´Echange Culturel (CAFEC)

Democratic Republic of the Congo

WSA YOUNG INNOVATORS ONLINE JURY

Alia ElKattan

PhD student

NYU

United States of America

Ana Mazmishvili

Senior Budget Analyst

State Audit Office of Georgia (SAOG)

Georgia

Mariam Kakhidze

Senior Analyst of State Budget and Strategic Analysis Department

State Audit Office of Georgia (SAOG)

Georgia

Shady Hatem

Founder and CEO

Advicenode

Egypt

Peumi Rodrigo

Vice President - Marketing & Corporate Communications

Wavenet

Sri Lanka

Elma Hot

Resident scientist

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Montenegro

Mohmoud Elbadwi

Founder

oPercetion

Sudan

Charlotte Dreyer

Project Development, HPI School of Design Thinking

Hasso Plattner Institute

Germany

Jordan Fung

Founder

Jordan Fung & Company (Hong Kong) Limited

China

Jon Mark Walls

Consultant

United Nations

United States of America

Sanny Gaddafi

CEO

8villages

Indonesia

Adam Itzkowitz

Vice President of Marketing and Communications

Better World Club

USA

Jithin Krishnan

Co-Founder

Spaceboat.in

India

Alexander Ojo

Head of IT

The Royal Senchi Resort & Hotel

Ghana

Momal Mushtaq

Syndication Manager (C-user)

SAP

Pakistan

Shaik Khasim Shareef

Founder & Chairman

Friends2Support.org

India

Stephan Hamberger

Head of Digital Platforms

Red Bull Media House

Austria/USA

Rahat Hossain

Program Manager

AYAT

Bangladesh

Rohayl Varind

CEO

Times of Youth & Share To Aware

Pakistan