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Kieren McCarthy is an acknowledged authority on the Internet and Internet governance. He has written extensively about both for a wide range of national and international newspapers and magazines.

An engineer by training, Kieren has spent more than 10 years as an IT journalist and has, at some point interviewed, just about everybody in the Internet industry. The official blogger for both the inaugural Internet Governance Forum and an OECD conference on the Participative Web, and author of the book Sex.com, he was most recently ICANN’s General Manager of Public Participation, tasked with coordinating communication between the organization and Internet users.

He operates and runs .Nxt, which provides information about Internet policy and governance as runs conferences designed to act as a space for positive information-sharing about the future of the Internet's infrastructure.

Joan Irvine was until recently CEO of the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP). ASACP develops Best Practices and monitors its member sites for compliance and manages a child pornography reporting hotline.

With ASACP, Ms. Irvine spearheaded the development of the Restricted to Adults (RTA) website label that helps prevent children from viewing age-restricted content. The Association Society of Association Executives (ASAE) recognized Ms. Irvine for this project with their ‘Associations Make a Better World’ award in 2008.

The U.S. House of Representatives awarded Ms. Irvine a Congressional Commendation plus she has been recognized by many Californian legislators and cities for her efforts on behalf of child protection.