Africa Source II was guided by an advisory group to help guide the goals, form and content of the event. This group was made up of leading regional professionals working in the non-profit technology space. The advisory group helped the organisers to increase outreach to various parts of the region and individual sectors. They raised awareness of the event and provided feedback on major conceptual and content based decisions, raised concerns and made suggestions on the event as it continued to take shape. The members of the advisory group assisted in the participant selection process as well as helped the organisers and facilitators to shape the agenda of Africa Source II.

The advisory group consisted of:

Ra'ida Al-Zu'bi

She is working as a Information and Networking Coordinator and counsultant for the BRIDGE, Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK (currently based in Amman, Jordan) She is also acting as a clearinghouse of information on ICT-related funding, software, hardware, meetings and projects for Arab speaking world.

Dorothy Okello

Dorothy Kabagaju Okello from Uganda is a Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering at the McGill University - Montréal, Canada and her current research interest lies in broadband satellite networking. Already during her studies she gained several academic awards. She participated in career guidance missions of the Women Engineers, Technicians and Scientists in Uganda (WETSU) and the Uganda Institute of Professional Engineers (UIPE). Dorothy Okello is Africa Representative for the Gender and ICT Awards Project Team as well as for the APC Women's Networking Support Programme (APC-WNSP) Coordination Team. Since May 2000 she is the coordinator for the Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) and therefore responsible for strategic planning and development of WOUGNET programmes. For eighteen months prior to this, she had maintained an announcement list via which news and announcements were distributed to a number of women organisations as well as queries related to computer or internet usage handled. Dorothy has experience with web-portals for women in Uganda and with the encouragement of women to use ICTs.

Tobias Eigen

Tobias Eigen is the founder of Kabissa - Space for Change in Africa, an organisation that helps African civil society organizations to put ICT, especially the internet, to work for the people they serve. Africa has always been part of his life. Tobias has been into computers and modems since he was 15, and very quickly he specialised on 'Internet in Africa' at a time when most countries still did not have much in terms of Internet access. The work, especially with Kabissa for the last five years, has taken him to many African countries and allowed him to work with many inspiring Africans throughout the continent.

Jacques Guidon

Jacques Guidon is Conseiller du Directeur of Unesco office in Dakar, Senegal. The main mission of the Dakar Office is to promote and develop, at the regional level, UNESCO's actions, notably in the field of education, through the organization of periodic ministerial conferences and other forms of regular consultations with governments, NGOs, institutions and the intellectual community of African Member States.

Daniel Kakinda

Daniel Kakinda is the director of Schoolnet Uganda and national coordinator of iEARN-Uganda and a member of the Executive Committee of iEARN International(International Education and Resource Network) and a member of the Steering Committee SchoolNet Africa. He is keen to improve the standards and opportunities of rural education in Uganda through introducing ICT and collaborative learning to the classroom. Schoolnet Uganda was launched in 1997 by WorldLinks and the World Bank, but eventually became an independent NGO in 2003. SchoolNet Uganda's core business business is to offer technology professional development to educators and Daniel is directly in-charge.

Eric Osiakwan

Eric Osiakwan is an Internet specialist in research, education and consulting. He is a tireless advocate of ICT matters through his journalism in Ghana's press and his own talk show ICT World on a local radio station. He is also a web developer and the Secretary to the Ghana ISP Association. Eric is a Reuters Digital Vision fellow and is focusing on questions of fibre and wireless internet and telecommunications access in Africa. Learning from the successes and failures of internet and Telecom projects in Africa over the past decade, Eric is advocating for a model of infrastructure development in Africa that favours small business ISPs and NSPs over formerly state-owned Telecom incumbents.

Natasha Primo

Natasha Primo heads Women’sNet in South Africa. The main activities of Women’sNet include ICT and gender-related training, networking and collaboration around gender and ICT issues at regional and global level, as well as multi-media content development around relevant gender issues to aid for South African women’s empowerment processes. Formerly, Natasha was a manager of the Women-in-Research (WIR) program of the National Research Foundation in Pretoria, South Africa, a lecturer in Geography & Environmental Studies, and the first coordinator of the postgraduate Gender and Women’s Studies Program of the University of Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa. Natasha holds a Master's degree in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts, USA.

Philipp Schmidt

Philipp Schmidt works for bridges.org in South Africa where he led various research projects dealing with FOSS in Africa and the FOSS/low-cost computer component of CATIA (www.catia.ws). Philipp is on sabbatical at MERIT/UNU-INTECH in Holland from August 2005 - March 2006

Fatimata Sylla Seye

With a baccalaureat in mathematics, Ms Fatimata SEYE SYLLA is a M.I.T./ Media Lab Master of Science with a first university degree from Le Havre University (France) on Computer Science. She has a post-graduate management degree from the African regional school in Dakar. She has attended many training sessions in computer science: data base management, computers in education, web design, internet, multimedia, networking. After working for ten years within the Senegalese government as a project manager, she's presently the General Manager of Solutions 3+, a computer service company in Senegal. She is also the founding President of Bokk Jang association, a founding member of OSIRIS and ISOC associations in Senegal. As an international consultant for UNESCO, UNFPA, UNECA, ITU, USAID and IDRC, she has set up computer systems and trained users. She has conducted research in the field of Information and Communication Technologies use in Education, gender and development and has written several papers in the same field; some of them are published.

Prof. Dr. Victor van Reijswoud

Victor is a Dutch living and working in Uganda. He is working at Uganda Martys University as head of the department Computer Sciene and Information Systems. Uganda Martyrs University is the one of the two officially recognized private universities in the country. The university is the first university on the continent that has adopted an OSS policy.

Next to this he is the chairman of the East African Center for Open Source Software and organization that promotes the use of OSS in the region by facilitating training and advice to people who want to use it. He also run a software mirror on http://www.eacoss.org.