Keynote speakers announced for the EDEN 2017 Annual Conference

Eva Hemmungs-Wirtén

Professor of mediated culture, Tema Kultur och samhälle (Tema Q), Linköping University. A scholar of intellectual property, she has looked at the emergence of the modern international copyright regime in No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization (2004) and the history of the public domain and the commons in Terms of Use: Negotiating the Jungle of the Intellectual Commons (2008). In recent years, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén has increasingly focused on the impact of intellectual property, especially patents, in resaerch and higher education. Her most recent book, Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information, was published by the University of Chicago Press in the spring of 2015.

For more information, see her website.

Stefan Hrastinski

Stefan Hrastinski is Professor and Director for the Technology for Learning unit at the The School of Education and Communication in Engineering Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Visiting Professor at Mid Sweden University. His research focuses on how to support online learning, communication and collaboration across various contexts, including higher education, school settings, companies, the public sector and informal settings.

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Georgi Dimitrov

Deputy Head of the Unit on Innovation in Education and the EIT. Georgi Dimitrov joined the European Commission, Directorate General Education and Culture, as a Policy Officer in 2008. He was involved in various roles in setting up the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a recent initiative of the EU addressing innovation by integrating education, research and business activities.

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Frans Mäyrä

Frans Mäyra is a professor of Interactive Media, Digital Culture and Game Studies and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at University of Tampere. He is a “techno-humanist researcher with an avid interest in digital culture in its many forms, currently heading a games research group in the new media department of a major university, aiming to change the world to better by making us better aware of our multidimensional, immaterial as well as material existence.”

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Manjula Srinivas

Manjula Srinivas is a Professor and Head of the Department of Mass Media at the Kishinchand Chelaram College, better known as K. C. College, in Mumbai, India. She is a self-starter with over 15 years of teaching experience across varied colleges and roles, including, teaching, administration, content & syllabi development.

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Hanqin Qiu

Hanqin Qiu is a professor international tourism at the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her BA from Nankai University in Mainland China, her MA from University of Waterloo in Canada, and her PhD from University of Strathclyde in UK. Her research interests are tourism studies, consumer behaviour, and China hotel and tourism development and policy issues. She has been the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism since 2016.

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Jean-Marie Filloque

Former Vice Rector for Lifelong Learning and academic affairs, University of Brest, France

He was Director of University Continuing Education Department of the University of Brest (F) between 1998 and 2008 and President of the French National Network of University Continuing Education from 2005 to 2012. He was the Vice Rector for Lifelong Learning and academic affairs at the University of Brest.

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Elsebeth Sorensen

Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen is Professor in Digital Communication & Learning and head of the AAU research group, D4Learning at the Department of Learning and Philosophy at Aalborg University. She was previously director of the successful master programme in ICT and Learning (MIL), offered in equal collaboration between five Danish Universities (Aalborg University, Aarhus University, Copenhagen Business School, the Danish Pedagogical University, and Roskilde University).

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Rosie Jones

Director of Library Services,The Open University

Responsible for setting the strategic vision for the Library ensuring that the Open University deliver a leading-edge service by responding positively to new opportunities and challenges within a rapidly changing environment.

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Sanjay Ranade

(invited)

Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Mumbai

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Peter Eriksson

(invited)

Minister for Housing and Digital Development

Lars-Johan Peter Eriksson is a Swedish politician who has served as the Minister for Housing and Digital Development since 3 May 2016. He was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).

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Markku Markkula

(invited)

Markku Markkula was elected President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) in February 2015 for a two and a half year term of office.

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Nnenna Nwakanma

(invited)

Africa Regional Coordinator at The World Wide Web Foundation

Nnenna Nwakanma is an FLOSS activist, community organizer, development adviser and development consultant originally from Nigeria in Africa. She is the co-founder of The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa which she also co-chairs. She was elected as a board member of the Open Source Initiative in April 2007. She also co-founded The Africa Network of Information Society Actors, and the African Civil Society for the Information Society which she serves on. She is also a Vice President of the Digital solidarity fund. Previously, she served as the Information Officer for Africa of the Helen Keller Foundation.

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Neil Selwyn

(invited)

Neil Selwyn is a professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University. His research and teaching focuses on the place of digital media in everyday life, and the sociology of technology (non)use in educational settings.

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