Kevon Andrews is currently employed as a Development Engineer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of the West Indies. He has a B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an M.Sc., with Distinction, in Communication Systems from UWI.

His current interest is in leveraging existing software and hardware to innovate mobile-based solutions and participates as a mobile application developer in MIT's NextLab 2010, Mobile Innovation for Global Challenges. In 2009, he won an award from Red de Gobierno Electrónico de América Latina y El Caribe (RED GEALC) for a pilot SMS-based application, m-Community Skills Bank.

Ravi Deonarine is a Development Engineer II in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of the West Indies. He has a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an MASc, with Distinction, in Communication Systems from UWI. Having 8 years of experience in developing web applications, he has produced ICT solutions for the local ccTLD registrar (the Trinidad and Tobago Network Information Centre and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also teaches Communication Systems related courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Ravi’s development interests include mobile applications and ICT for education. His recently completed MASc project involved the application of Semantic Web technology to curriculum information management.

Tremayne Flanders is a research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of the West Indies. A computer science/ mathematics graduate of UWI, he has a rich set of practical experience in various ICT projects. Some of these include as the principal design architect in the re-engineering of the the Ministry of Agriculture SALIS database, the developer of mobile applications for farm data collection by the aforementioned ministry and the conceptual design of a data cleanup application at the Ministry of Finance. His most recent engagement has been in MIT Nextlab 2010 Global Challenge Initiative, where he functioned as the main technical developer of the route planning module in a m-logistics framework.

His immediate future goal is to pursue an MPhil. in Computer Science at UWI, with a research emphasis yet to be determined. He enjoys learning foreign languages, evident in his certification in Chinese and Spanish at the Centre for Language Learning, UWI. He currently has no children, but eagerly looks forward to that day with his lovely fiancee, Crystal.

Yudhistre Jonas is a third year Bachelor's student in Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of the West Indies, UWI. With a keen interest in mobile phone technologies, he has shared the Teleios' 2010 Code Jam and MIT's NextLab 2010 Technology Innovation Awards. He has been a student developer in MIT's NextLab initiative since February 2010 and plans to continue until 2011. He is currently working in UWI's summer employment programme to further develop his undergraduate project, a J2Me smart phone tracking application and Web utilities, with the view to building the Department's capacity to execute similar individual and group projects.

Mark Lessey is a final-year Master's student and tutor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of the West Indies. Prior to his engagement in the Department, he had six years of hands-on experience in broadband and point-to-point wireless communication system design, implementation and management. His current research interests focus on the analysis and application of mobile services and technologies for improving the livelihoods of the underprivileged. A team player and communicator, Mark has studied Spanish to fluency, and has shared the honour of receiving MIT's NextLab Technology Innovation Award in May 2010.

Kim Mallalieu, a graduate of MIT and UCL, is Head of UWI's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering where she leads the academic, commercial and industrial outreach groups in Communications. In these capacities, she builds partnerships between The UWI, various policy groups, universities and industry.

Kim is a Fulbright fellow and the beneficiary of several other fellowships and international affiliations as well as the recipient of local and international teaching awards. She has sat on a variety of technical and academic boards, at home and abroad, including the Board of the Trinidad and Tobago Telecommunications Authority and the Board of the International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education

Kim is the Principle Investigator in the Caribbean ICT Research Programme (Trinidad and Tobago) and the proud mother of three young sons.

Candice Sankarsingh graduated from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine in 2001 with First Class Honours in French and Spanish. Quite the multi-disciplinarian, she served for 3 years as the Liaison Officer assigned to the Distance Learning Secretariat of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education prior to joining the team in November 2009. She has been involved in the development of communities of practice and the design of open educational resources for the non-university tertiary education sector. Her research has focused on investigating potential frameworks for connecting learning access to human development with particular emphasis on marginalized communities. She has presented papers at the 5th Pan Commonwealth Forum for Open and Distance Learning held at the University of London as well as the E-learn Conference held in Trinidad and Tobago in 2009. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Foreign Student award to pursue a MSc. in Instructional Design Technology at Lehigh University.

Candice Simonta-Dyer is currently employed at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of the West Indies, where she conducts research for the Caribbean ICT Research Programme.

Candice has previously lead event coordination for the Caribbean Internet Forum and Regional Dialogue on the Information Society and has been employed with the MRP (Telecommunications) programme, which was an online programme that consisted of students and teaching staff from various parts of the globe.

Her academic background includes Management Information Systems and Public Sector Human Resource Management and she is currently pursuing a BSc in Sociology with minors in Communications and Psychology.