Ms. Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas is full Professor at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), in Brazil, currently affiliated as Collaborator at the Institute of Computing, where she developed her academic career. She holds a Research Productivity Scholarship from The Nacional Council for Research (CNPq).
She is a Co-founder and former Director of the Nucleus of Informatics Applied to Education (NIED), at UNICAMP.
She is also Senior Lecturer of The Brazilian Computing Society (SBC), appointed by the SBC Special Committee in Human-Computer Interaction.
Sources: https://iite.unesco.org/governing-board/maria-cecilia-calani-baranauskas/
Professor Didier Jourdan is the Chair holder of the UNESCO Chair “Global Health & Education” and Head of the WHO collaborating Center for “Research in Education & Health”.
He is full Professor, former Dean of the Faculty of Education and Vice-President of Blaise Pascal University in France. He used to be President of the “prevention, education and health promotion” Commission of the French High Council for Public Health and Director of the Health Promotion Division of the French National Public Health Agency. Professor Didier is one of the European’s leading experts in Health Education. His entire career has been focused on capacity building in the field of health and education. He has a unique perspective on education and public health from his experience as a practitioner in both fields, an innovator, a leader, a manager, a workforce educator, a consultant and a researcher at national and global levels.
Ms. Tone Lisbeth Mork, Chair of the Commission on Education of Rehabilitation International (RI). She is a Specialist consultant in the field of Welfare in Norway and an active member in a number of regional and global organizations supporting persons with disabilities. She was the formal Director of Statped, a State Special Education Service in Norway.
Sources: https://iite.unesco.org/governing-board/tone-lisbeth-mork/
Ms. Dorothy Gordon is a Board member of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE). She has worked in the field of international development and technology for over thirty years and is recognised as a leading technology activist and specialist concentrating on policy, education, technology, gender and society in Africa. Her work as a leader, manager, consultant and speaker has taken her to over 100 countries. She is a strong advocate of the ROAM principles (internet universality), building on her work with the Open Movement and Creative Commons. Her current work centers on responsible AI that respects equal rights for the global majority with a special focus on the rights of children.
Sources: https://iite.unesco.org/governing-board/dorothy-gordon/
Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni is the executive president of the Moroccan International Center for Artificial Intelligence known as the Ai movement, within Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P). She is also an outstanding Full Professor at Sorbonne University, Faculty.
She holds a PhD in Computer Science and an habilitation to supervise research (HDR) in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Researcher at LIP6 – UMR CNRS 7606, one of the largest computer science laboratories in France, she founded the SMA team, which she has been leading since 2006. Within Sorbonne University, Prof. Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni is a member of the executive committee of SCAI (Sorbonne Center of Artificial Intelligence) and holds the industrial chair of excellence funded by Thales at SCAI-Abu-Dhabi.
Sources: https://aim.um6p.ma/en/biography/
Marc Prensky (born March 15, 1946, New York City, United States) is an American writer and speaker on education. He is best known as the creator of the terms "digital native" and "digital immigrant" which he described in a 2001 article in On the Horizon.
Prensky’s professional focus is on K-12 education reform. His books address tools (Digital Game-Based Learning), pedagogy (Teaching Digital Natives), curriculum (The World Needs a New Curriculum) and the entire k-12 system (Education to Better Their World.)
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Prensky#Books
Global Smart Education Conference 2024 (GSE 2024) will be held in Beijing from August 18 to 20th.
More Info: https://gse.bnu.edu.cn/