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Horst Kremers (Berlin, Germany) is an Engineer and Information Scientist. His special interest is in Applied Digital Semiotics in connection with full management aspects for applications and control. After finishing his studies at University of Bonn (Faculty of Agriculture) and following positions at Technical University of Berlin and University of Stuttgart, he joined the Berlin Senate technical Administration.

Horst continuously took active part in specifying strategy and technical innovation in several professional associations and organizations. Since many years he is also involved in UN Instruments discussions on global, national, regional and urban level, mainly in the fields of SDGs Sustainable Development and DRR Disaster Risk Reduction Information Management. Among the mayor aspects of management, the principles of "constructive critical thinking" and "leaving no one behind" are among his active committments in various UN Instruments strategy, roadmap and implementation. 

UN Instruments enforce the demand for broad stakeholder driven governance, action and control.

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http://Horst-Kremers.de

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Dr Rachida HOUSSA, PhD from the university Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg (France), work, since 1998 at the National Institute for Fisheries Research of Morocco (INRH: Instritut National de Recherche Halieutique) where she has held several positions of responsibility. Her work for more than 20 years in INRH gave her the opportunity to lead the development of numerous activities related to the marine environment, fisheries research and coastal management, and to work in close collaboration with different national, regional (Maghreb and West Africa) and international (Western Europe, Russia, Japan, etc.) teams working in different fields of marine research.

Kassim obtained his PhD from the School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, where he specialised in Statistical Data Mining, working with Professors John T. Kent and Charles C. Taylor. A well–rounded multi-disciplinary professional, he also holds MSc in Statistics, Computing and in Finance, with many years of experience in teaching, research and consulting across continents. His research interests are in interdisciplinary application of deep learning and other machine learning techniques in modelling real–life phenomena and their potential impact on human livelihood. Recent work include mod- elling spatio-temporal dynamics within Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), viewing each SDG as a source of Big Data. He is a regular presenter at a number of international conferences on data science and related fields across the world and he has published extensively in those areas. He is a keen promoter of interdisciplinary approach to scientific research, open data and open science.

https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our- people/staff-profiles/kassim-mwitondi

Dr Daisy Selematsela served as the Acting Vice Principal: Research Postgraduate Studies, Innovation and Commercialisation at the University of South Africa. She is Professor of Practice of Information and Knowledge Management of the University of Johannesburg.

She has a combined 27 years’ experience in Higher Education sector and within the National System of Innovation (NSI). She serves as mentor and external examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate students in Library, Information Science and Knowledge Management.

Daisy has co-ordinated workshops, chaired conference sessions and made numerous local and international presentations on areas of her research interest: Information Literacy; Open Scholarship, Open Access, Open Science and Open Data; Digitisation and Preservation; Repositories; Records and Document Management; Information and Knowledge Management; and Leadership, Transformation and Change Management. She has also published articles in a number of popular and accredited journals; a book chapter; and several contributions to UNESCO and WHO reports.

A former Editorial Board member of Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) Data Science Journal (DSJ) and Editorial Board Member: Global Change Research Data Publishing and Repository. Serves as reviewer of several programs. She served on the boards of the National Library of South Africa; National Archives of South Africa; National Council of Library and Information Services and a member of Board of Directors of international bodies such as the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), Research4Life, the Committee on Data of the International Council for Science (CODATA) and ORCID where she also served as a member of the Nomination Committee and the Membership Committee. Member of Board of Directors and Chair Elect: CHELSA (Committee of Higher Education Libraries of South Africa); Board of Directors: SANLiC (South African National Library and Information Consortium) and Program Co-Chair: Open Repositories or2020/2021 (15th International Conference on Open Repositories).

Has been instrumental in championing the research data management processes and Open Access Mandate within the National System of Innovation in South Africa and promoted CODATA Task Group agenda at different forums in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Her involvement includes being Co-Chair of the Sub-group of CODATA-WDS of PASTD, an Executive member of International Council for Science Union (ICSU SCID) ad Hoc Committee on Information and Data,  Chair of International Council for Science: Committee on Data for Science & Technology (ICSU: CODATA) Task Group on Data Sources for Sustainable Development in SADC. Executive member of (ICSU EDC Panel) International Science Union World Data Centre Panel; Member of CODATA Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in/for/with Developing Countries, and Co-chairs of CODATA – WDS joint subgroup.

She holds a doctorate in Information Science (D Litt et Phil) from the University of Johannesburg; a Fellow of the Higher Education Resource Service for Women in Higher Education (HERS) South Africa and Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia, USA. Awarded the Knowledge Management Award in 2016 by the World Education Congress in Mumbai. Received an Award of Excellence in Knowledge Management by the 1st International Conference on Knowledge & Innovation Management by Babcock University Nigeria 14 January 2019.

Giacomo Mazzone is global coordinator WBU project – UNDRR, former WSIS High Level track facilitator 2020