Joy Tang - Founder and Executive Director - has a MA in International Marketing Communication. At Cisco Systems she held positions in market development & sales. As a Cisco Fellow, she assisted in the development of low-income ICT program in the United States working with oneEconomy.net. In emerging markets, she aided the establishment of Teachers Without Borders. She now combines her diverse knowledge and experiences as a global community builder; connecting various multi-sector initiatives. [email protected]

Jeff Buderer - Director of Operations - has a B.S. in Political Science with a minor in International Relations. He has worked at Arcosanti, a unique live/work experiment in architecture and urban design located in the desert of Arizona 70 miles north of Phoenix. While at Arcosanti, he studied ecological design in total immersion 4 month course organized by the Ecosa Institute. A major theme in his work is to promote an integrated approach to sustainable development and his current at OVF is focused on the development of knowledgebase/wikis for sharing information globally through the dissemination of Open Content. [email protected]

Ying Hua Wang - Assistant Project Manager - Ying Hua (Cherry) has an engineering degree and background in electronics. She began working as an engineering assistant at a Taiwanese semi-conductor firm. However during her two years experience there she discovered her real passion which is music. Some of her musical achievements include working in musical instrument sales for seven years and being the assistant of a CD recording project. Cherry's involvement with oneVillage started with the beat of a drum. She has been a part of UnityDrum Taiwan for one year.  Her achievements include planning events and organizing weekly meetings that relate to both UnityDrum and OVF's general work.  She has also been the website content editor the UnityDrum website for he past six months.  Cherry brings career experience and a strong work ethic to OVF. [email protected]

Andrew Lee - System Integration - Over ten years experience in working on various FLOSS projects in Taiwan. He was an active developer of CLE (Chinese Linux Extensions) - the first Chinese Linux distro in Asia and helped establish Mandrake in Asia. For a time her worked for RedHat Asia at the Education and Certification Center in Taiwan (U'COM) as instructor of RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) courses. He has been involved with the Taiwan Linux Users Group (TLUG). More recently, he served as System Administrator of the Winkler Partners and the Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association. Andrew has attended various conferences and events, including the 2008 Linux World Conference, where he introduced the Linux X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) system used in the launch of the EeePC. He also attended the Skolelinux developers gathering and user conference in Norway in Oct 08.

Currently, he is serving in key roles to develop the Open Source community in Taiwan: as a board member of the Software Liberty Association of Taiwan; co-founder and maintainer of the Taiwan Localization Project; and the Linux Taiwan coordinator and administrator. He is also involved with Debian Taiwan and the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE). Andrew enjoys balancing his IT work with learning about indigenous culture particularly drumming as a proud member of Unity Drum, organizing various cultural events to promote Indigenous culture. [email protected]

Professor Olu Ogunnika - Board member - received his PhD from the New School for Social Research in New York. He has been influenced by Professor Akiwowo's idea of a “Sociology for one world” - Akiwowo’s attempt to introduce traditional African (Yoruba) knowledge into the understanding of the complex modern industrial society. He says this will enable the people of the world to understand themselves through one language without necessarily dropping off their own particular language. The new technology in communication will therefore be of importance and benefit to the peoples of the world irrespective of place, language or culture.

Professor Akinsola Akiwowo - Board member & Cultural and Social Affairs Consultant - has a PhD in sociology and anthropology. After being in inspired by Professor Robert S. Hartman's theory of the Structure of Value in college, his central interest and concern has been how the science of value - axiology - could be applied to the discipline of sociology. He hopes to spend some of his remaining years exploring Dr. Hartman's assertion that axiology indeed did have a part to play in the intellectual development of sociology as a science of human society. More about Prof Akiwowo is here.

Erich Kohler - Board member, Information Technology Consultant &
Co-founder of OVF - has expertise in many areas of IT including: customer care, customer management, solution development, indirect sales and engineering. he has worked for: Philips NV, Swissair, Reuters News Agency, Digital Equipment Corporation, Novell, Cisco Systems. Most recently he worked for Swisscom, sales manager at the largest ISP Bluewin in Europe and currently works at a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom as IP Project manager. Erich provides OVF with valuable & practical experiences in IT. [email protected]

Kafui Amenu, Prebbie Country Director OVF-Ghana & ICT Education Coordinator - studied Mathematics, Physics and Educational Psychology, receiving his Professional Teaching Certificate. Shortly after beginning his teaching career he received the "Best Science Teacher" in his district in 1999 - the youngest in the history of the award and is now pursing a masters degree in education. In 2001, he was Ghana's Information Communication Technology (ICT) Youth Ambassador. In 2002, he established OVF operations in Ghana and co-founded the African Youth Initiative (recently renamed the African Youth ICT4D Network). He sees youth development efforts aimed at a multi-sector approach as vital to any Information development effort (ICT4D). Towards this end, he's spearheaded various OVF efforts including: leading an initiative to fighting AIDS (Sports People That Care); promoting sustainable agriculture (Jukwa Farmers Coop) and developing an innovative youth ICT education (Catch IT Young) initiative in Ghana. In 2005, he was selected to represent Ghana at the Young Think Tank of the Club of Rome (tt30). [email protected]

Olaposi Abiola - Country Director OVF–Nigeria - studied electrical engineering and computer science. He has involved with several engineering associations including IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In addition to his expertise on ICT issues, he understands the need for cultural and religious diversity in the global village and has lectured on this topic. He founded the Global Resource Information Technology Network (GRITEN) in 2001 to gather people from various fields to promote ICT4D initiatives to empower marginalized communities. In October 2003, OVF & GRITEN merged to form OVF-Nigeria. As a OVF team member, he has continued to move forward on the goals that led him to form GRITEN, including highlighting the need for greater cooperation between NGO and corporate communities, to foster practical, economically viable solutions towards the development of a sustainable society for Nigeria and the world. [email protected]