ICT for Rural Development: Digital Economy and Human Resource Development

Johnny Gerard Plate, born in Ruteng, East Nusa Tenggara in 1956. He graduated from Catholic University Atmajaya Jakarta on 1986 on Economics. He was formerly House of Representatives of The Republic of Indonesia before apointed as Minister of Communication and Informatics Indonesia.

Agus Kartasasmita began his political career when he was elected into the People's Representative Council of Indonesia in 1998 and served till 2004. While serving as member of parliament he was a member of Commission I of the Parliament. In 2009 he was re-elected into the Legislative Assembly, during his tenure he served as Chairman of the Working Committee of the State Intelligence Bill, International Treaties Committee Chairman Bill, Chairman of the Special Committee for National Security Bill and Vice Chairman of Commission I respectively until 2014. On 24 August 2018, he was appointed Minister of Social Affairs by President Joko Widodo. On October 23 2019, president elect Jokowi announced that Agus Gumiwang would make a return to his Indonesia Onward Cabinet as Minister of Industry replacing Gumiwang's fellow Golkar Party politician, Airlangga Hartarto.

Suharso Monoarfa (born 31 October 1954 in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara), an entrepreneur and politician, is the Minister for National Development Planning in Indonesia. He was appointed to this position by President Joko Widodo on 23 October 2019. He is also a member of the Presidential Advisory Council.

Mario Koeppen has published around 100 peer-reviewed papers in conference proceedings, journals and books and was active in the organization of various conferences as chair or member of the program committee, incl. the WSC on-line conference series on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, and the HIS conference series on Hybrid Intelligent Systems. He is founding member of the World Federation of Soft Computing, and also member of the editorial board of the Applied Soft Computing journal, the Intl. Journal on Hybrid Intelligent Systems and the Intl. Journal on Computational Intelligence Research. In 2006, he became JSPS fellow at the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan, and in 2008 Professor at the Network Design and Research Center (NDRC) of the Kyushu Institute of Technology, where he is conducting now research in the fields of multi-objective optimization, digital convergence and multimodal content management.

Anna O’Donnell is currently the Lead Social Development Specialist for South Asia Region. Her role is to lead and coordinate the Social Sustainability and Inclusion (SSI) operational portfolio across the South Asia region, including the large operational portfolio in Afghanistan, and support analytical, advisory, and technical assistance activities with a focus on issues related to community institutions, community development, social cohesion and social inclusion. Since joining the World Bank in 2003, She has held various positions in the South Asia and East Asia and Pacific Regions, working on operational programs focused on community development programs, rural service delivery, low income housing, and youth inclusion and the digital economy.. Anna holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Maryland, where her research focused on outcomes of efficiency and equity in participatory institutions.

Rohan Samarajiva is founding Chair of LIRNEasia, an ICT policy and regulation think tank active across emerging Asia. Since 2004, LIRNEasia has been working to improve telecom policy and regulation in the developing Asia Pacific region through research, capacity building and advocacy. His most recent co-authored book (2013) is Information lives of the poor: Fighting poverty with technology, published in Burmese, English, French and Spanish. He is also a member of the UN Global Pulse Advisory Group on the Governance of Data and Artificial Intelligence. He has served on its predecessor, the Data Privacy Advisory Group, since 2015.

Anang Achmad Latif is a civil servant who specialized in communications and informatics fields. He started his career as Radio Spectrum Frequency planner at the Ministry of Communications and Informatics of the Republic of Indonesia. He was trusted to manage ICT infrastructure development in the Ministry. He, who was born in Bandung (West Java), graduated in Electronic Engineering at Institut Teknologi Bandung and completed his Master of Science degree in Operational Telecommunications major at Coventry University (London). He also known internationally as he served as Chairman of Special Task Force on digital TV Implementation between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore in 2009-2011. He also is a member of the ASEAN Digital Broadcasting from 2009 until present. In June 2016, he was promoted as Director of Balai Penyedia and Pengelola Pembiayaan Telekomunikasi dan Informatika (BP3TI) or known as BAKTI, a unit under the Ministry of Communication and Informatics which manage Universal Service Obligation or USO.

Doctoral Degree major in Electrical Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has Competency Certification Body of Chartered Information System Auditor verified by the American Academy of Project management and also Principal Engineering on Technology Solution Center (BPPT), He was formerly Deputy of Data and Information (KPK) for 4 years. He is currently Assistance Team ICT Commission in the Research National Council (DRN), his main research interests in Telecommunication and Broadcasting,Information Technology and Electronics, Information System and Modelling.

A 25 year career with professional skills and expertise in ICT technology and policy, fundraise, partnership development, capacity building, and programme management in one of the world’s most advanced ICT environments.

Lan Zhiyong is a Professor at the School of Public Policy and Management in Tsinghua University, and School of Public Affairs in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University. He teaches and researches in areas of government reform and innovation, Information Technology and public decision-making, smart city, urban governance, conflict management, sustainable development etc. He has published more than ten monographs, and over 150 articles in core journals of public management and influential newspapers and media. Prof. Lan is an active member in the International Association of Administrative Sciences, holds adjunct professorship in a number of Chinese universities, and is also very active in working with the local governments and local communities.