Directing the project is Marcia Conner, a technology and leadership veteran, who runs the global consultancy Ageless Learner. Conner is author of two books, a fellow of the Darden School of Business and contributor to Fast Company. As vice president and information futurist at PeopleSoft she founded the ERP industry's first usability and user-experience department, and launched PeopleSoft University. During her tenure at Microsoft, she was a senior manager.

Co-directing the project is Kellee K. Sikes, principal for Pioneer Technologies Consulting. A progressionary by nature, published writer and energized activist, Sikes also leads a Social Justice Ministry while exploring ways to increase the reach and depth of the Fair Trade Movement.

Eugene Eric Kim is a strategic advisor for the project. He is the cofounder and principal of Blue Oxen Associates, a think tank/consultancy focusing on inter-organizational collaboration and collaborative learning. He is also a thought leader in the collaborative tool space and has helped push the evolution of these tools in more productive directions. Previously, he worked closely with computer pioneer Doug Engelbart, who serves on the Blue Oxen Associates advisory board.

Owen Davis is a strategic advisor for the project. He is cofounder of Identity Commons and trustee of XDI.org. Believing business is an engine of transformation, he has been applying the principles of distributive governance, pioneered at VISA Int'l, to create a socially beneficial commercial venture. Davis studied sustainable communities and electrical engineering; led two successful high-tech companies; and has been a business and computer consultant.

Kaliya Hamlin is a strategic advisor on the project. She specializesin building connections between communities ranging from spiritual activists to open source developers to socially responsible businessand web 2.0 leaders. She is co-producer of the Internet Identity Workshop and a leader in the user-centric identity community as Identity Woman. An innovator in the unconference movement, she regularly facilitates participant-led processes at technology industry events.

Gunnar Brückner is a strategic advisor for the project. He is an internationally recognized expert in global community development, working in countries as diverse as Brazil, Columbia, El Salvador and Angola, and served as chief learning officer of the United Nations Development Programme. He is founder of coachingplatform, creating personal and shared knowledge spaces for informal learning across vast distances. He resides in Berlin, Germany.

Andy Dale and his team at ooTao, a software consulting and development company, provide leading-edge development resources and coaching for the interoperability and identity layers of the project. ooTao has worked with large multi-national organizations such as Citibank, Bank of America, Monsanto, Gap and IBM as well as smaller technology innovators including Identity Commons, SocialPhysics, Envoii and 2idi.

Service alliances and launchpad advising is lead by Mike Ozburn. With almost 25 years experience in telecommunications, network technology, and software, he is the former CIO of Nextel Communications, former CEO of Bridgewater Systems, and founder of Onya Technologies. Onya provides tools to enable identity-based services to allow individuals to stay connected to the people, information, and tools they value most.

Sarah Golightly and her team at GoLightly provide insights an online community platform as well as consulting services to international non-profits as diverse as La Leche League International, the Red Cross Bay Area, GlobalGiving.com, Wally Amos' Read Aloud Foundation, and the Chaordic Commons. As a visual artist and technologist with over 10 years of experience designing enterprise web applications, Sarah is passionate about making the web more usable and beautiful.

Dale McGrew works closely with many nonprofit clients to help their online communities thrive, as well as leading platform development at GoLightly. With over 15 years of software development and project management experience, he is the former VP Production at frogdesign.com, and has led teams providing software for companies like Disney, IBM, NTT, and Silicon Graphics, as well as nonprofits like the Red Cross Bay Area.

Mark Szpakowski leads one of the online community development advisors. He has worked on social software since the pioneering Community Memory project in 1972, as well as on human/computer interface and shared learning frameworks. His szpace platform, providing topic-oriented, personal and shared knowledge spaces for informal learning and action, has offered multi-workspace solutions for a major architectural firm, global university projects, leadership training, and the UNDP.

Michael Mell, the Planetwork webmaster and a link between many of the contributing organizations, has designed and built web sites for Fortune 500 companies, artists, lawyers, Buddhists and many shades between. Michael is also involved in developing applications for i-names.

Representing Planetwork, Jim Fournier convenes a network of developers working to create new Internet software and identity protocols to better inter-connect the global network of people dedicated to the common good. He is a founding partner of Eprida and serves on the boards of Planetwork (which he co founded), Channel G, and PRG; and on the advisory boards of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Highfield Foundation, Meru Foundation, ManyOne Networks and SF Greenmaps.