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The eCommons/agora is a national not for profit created to close digital divides by creating a community of learning and practice to use open source tools wherever possible, in order to develop community online and off-line, create cultural content, and foster citizen engagement.

2004:

Board of directors (eCommons/agora)

Liss Jeffrey
Joel Alleyne
David Mason
Trudy Rawlings
Jeremy Shtern
Christie Hurrell

Core members

Liss Jeffrey, PhD
Fraser McAninch
David Mason (Ottawa)
Bob Levitt
Joel Alleyne
Jeremy Shtern (Montreal)
JP Grou (Montreal)
Tom Liacas (Montreal)
Loreta Vaskeviciene
James Walker
Gisela McKay
Christie Hurrell
Jackie Reid
Cathie Salyn
Dhirender Nirwani (India)
Fred Matern (Ottawa)
Peter West (London -O)
Gary Baum (London-O)
Eli Malinsky
Olga Grass
Hélène Gagné
Mohammed Massoudi
Elic Chan
Blair Wiley
Paul Din Lawrie
Ian ten Cate (Victoria)
George Irish
Alex Kuskis
Lisa Morgan
Oleg (1) Mitsura
Oleg (2) Chomenko
Andrea Reed
Trudy Rawlings
and others...

Who are we?

The eCommons/agora électronique originator and prime cyber-architect is the byDesign eLab Associates Network. (http://www.bydesign-elab.net )

eLab members 2000 - 2001:

Liss Jeffrey, Founding director
Jesse Hirsh, Original sys admin and co-developer
Fraser McAninch, Original technical and netcast chief
Ira Nayman, Associate director, Research
Chantal Benoit-Barné, Associate director, Bicultural unit
Jeff Orchard, Graphic design and accessibility
Anna Roosen-Runge, Admin and Project manager
Gisela McKay, Develoier
James Walker, Senior Developer

Associates:

Brian O'Reilly (Fade), Patrick Burton, Darrell Bowman, Anjoli Bandyopadhyay, David Mason, Dan Shilelds, Brian Hall, Maureen Sawa, George Irish, Abbe Edelson, Carol Hilton

Founding Board of Directors eCommons.org: (2000-2001)

Philippe Tousignant, Mark Surman, Liss Jeffrey.
(2000) Elizabeth Hoffman

Ecommons.org advisors

Patrick Burton, John Grogan, David Mason, Gale Moore.

Host partner:

Rogers Communications Centre Ryerson University.
Crucible management solutions

Ecommons.org partners:

CLN/OLT/HRDC,
Crucible Management Solutions (Joel Alleyne)
Commons Consulting,
aSynchrolab,
Offline Research,
HJC Consulting,
Liss Jeffrey & Associates,
Aboriginal Voices,
McLuhan Program at the University of Toronto.

Strategic partners:

PIAC, Telecommunities Canada, Coalition for Public Information, Canadian
Library Association, iComm, Web Networks, reBoot, Knowledge Media Design
Institute & Centre for Adaptive and Academic Technologies (University of
Toronto), and literacy groups nationwide.

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