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developed and demonstrated affordable, satellite-based low bandwidth video
and Internet connections and techniques in the Amazon, Alaska, and remote
locations in the Pacific. Jim is proactive in developing new technologies
sustainably in emerging and under-served areas. He holds a BSc in Physics-
Math from the University of Arizona. Jim was Computer Society Chair in the
IEEE Puget Sound Chapter and is a member of IEEE and the IEEE
Communications Society.
Panel Speakers:
�� Marco Zennaro holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical
Engineering from Universita di Trieste and a Ph.D. from
the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm,
Sweden. As a researcher in the International Centre for
Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, he has focused on
the use of ICT for development, particularly for Wireless
Sensor Networks (WSN) and scientific applications.
He is one of the authors of three books: Wireless
Networking in the Developing World, Science Dissemination using Open
Access, and Mobile Science and Learning. Marco has taught courses about
wireless technologies for many years in numerous countries and is the main
editor of the WSN blog at http://www.wsnblog.com/.
�� Ermanno Pietrosemoli is currently a researcher at the
Telecommunications/ICT for Development Lab of the
International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste,
Italy, and president of Fundación Escuela
Latinoamericana de Redes “EsLaRed”, a non-profit
organization that promotes ICT in Latin America
through training and development projects, with funding
and logistic support from NSRC (Network Startup
Resource Center).
After 30 years of teaching Telecommunications at Universidad de los Andes
in Venezuela, Ermanno has focused on the planning and deployment of
wireless data communication networks with low-cost technology in
Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Italy, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Morocco,
Nicaragua, Peru, Trinidad, Spain, U.S.A. and Venezuela. He has presented in
many conferences and published several papers related to wireless data
communication and is co-author and technical reviewer of the book,
“Wireless Networking for the Developing World” – which is freely available
from http://wndw.net/.
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