People
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Kosta Grammatis
Founder & Chief Executive Optimist
Kosta has researched at and consulted for the MIT Media Labs and has worked on projects ranging from bionic eyes, satellites, spacecraft, and vision testing systems for developing countries. Projects he has worked on have been awarded TIME’s best invention of 2009, Vodaphone’s Wireless Innovation Award, and won the MIT Global Challenge and a Google Innovation Grant. He has spoken at TEDx, the United Nations, and numerous space and communications conferences. He started A Human Right because he believes the Internet is a tool that helps people to help themselves. -
Abby Goldberg
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Abby is an advocate and strategist for the advancement of human rights and gender equality. Named by GovFresh as one of the Top 100 Women in Politics & Technology, Abby has been a founding member of the Global Justice Center, All Day Buffet, and Digital Democracy. She worked on the development of the first mobile based tool for coordinating responses to gender based violence in Haiti's camps and has spoken widely on international justice, women's equality, and innovative strategies for enforcement of women's equality across the globe. Most recently, she has served as a consultant to UN Women, Nike and Global Citizen Year, the New Media Advocacy Project, and the Nuru Project spearheading programming initiatives, curriculum development, and global campaigns. -
Christian von der Ropp
Director, Terrestrial Networks
Christian was 16 when he started his first Internet business in 1997 as a webdesigner. While studying law at the University of Tübingen, Germany he worked as a financial analyst in the field of new technologies and fell in love with telecommunications. He began work as an ITC consultant with a strong focus on wireless networks including GSM, UMTS and LTE and has since specialized in intercontinental submarine cables and advises in the creation of telecommunications policy internationally.
Advisors
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Thomas Curran
CTO, Deutsche Telekom
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David Drucker
Founder, WildBlue
Co-Founder, Echostar
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Daniel Faber
Former President, Canadian Space Society
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Chérif Ghaly
United NationsChief, Technical Coordination and Partnerships (UNOCHA)
Chair, Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications (UNOCHA)
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John Herrington
NASAAstronaut
First Native American in Space
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Jan King
Vice President, Qualcomm
Vice President, Space Technology for STL
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Patrick Lanthier
Co-Founder/Chairman, Emergency Communications Leadership & Innovation Center (eCLIC), Carnegie Mellon University-Silicon Valley
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Gregory Pappas
Founder, Greek America Foundation
Special Advisor, XPrize Foundation
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Howard Rheingold
Author & Luminary
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Noah Samara
Founder, XM Radio
Founder, 1Worldspace Satellite Radio
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Nigel Seale
Founder, Earth Day International