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David Balson was responsible for the design and implementation of the Bellanet initiative, which supports collaboration within the development community through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). He has been Executive Director of Bellanet since its inception, in 1995.

He founded and managed IDRC's Telematics program in the 1980's, initially supporting computer conferencing in developing countries and then expanding email connectivity for the development and research communities. In the 1990s his focus was on policy issues related to ICTs. He lived in Kenya from 1988 to 1991, where he worked on telematics and related policy programs.

He is currently the President of InterQuest, which specializes in strategic and process consulting to the private, public and non governmental sectors. InterQuest draws upon interdisciplinary methods and models, and where appropriate, utilizes graphical software and real-time group technology to assist in the dialogue and decision process.

As a federal Assistant Deputy Minister with the Government of Canada, he designed and directed the Health Department�s corporate, multi-year, strategic planning exercise, the most comprehensive and far reaching in the department�s history. It lead to significant reform in the department�s strategic and policy priorities and business lines and was the basis for their response to federal restructuring and budget cuts.

As ADM for the Ministry of State for Fitness and Amateur Sport, he guided the reformulation of federal policy and programs during a period of intense scrutiny (Dubin Inquiry on Drugs, etc.) culminating in a new federal- provincial framework and landmark federal policy.

As Executive Vice-President for The Niagara Institute, he was instrumental in positioning the Institute as a national centre for senior leadership development and a non-partisan, issues resolution forum for business, government and labour executives. Mr. Makosky was also the national Executive Director of four national non-profit associations, successfully establishing their governance and cross-Canada programs during their formative years.

He has a Master of Science degree in Nuclear Physics and completed Doctoral coursework in Geophysics.

In her current capacity, as the Executive Director of the Corporate Renewal and Knowledge Management Office, she is assisting the TBS in fulfilling its role as a management centre of excellence. This entails being a "seed-bed" for creating new knowledge networks and developmental approaches, both internal and external to the federal government. She is also beginning a part-time Ph.D. in knowledge innovation.

If the Public Service and its leaders are to provide a supportive working environment then Dawn believes the capacity for continuous individual and organizational self-renewal must be a key building-block. Knowledge management, creation and transfer are key to this development of capacity.

A respected authority in his field, Larry has lectured and been published widely. His book, Managing Information Strategically (John Wiley & Sons, 1994), co-authored with James McGee, is a basic text on the role of information in gaining competitive advantage. His articles include "Myth of Information Overload" (International Journal of Information Management, 1995), "Information Politics" (Sloan Management Review, Fall 1993), "Blow up the Corporate Library" (International Journal of Information Management, 1993), "Knowledge and Risk Management" (California Management Review, Spring 1996), and "Eleven Sins of Knowledge Management" (California Management Review, Spring 1998). He has recently co-authored two books with Tom Davenport: Information Ecology (Oxford University Press, 1997), and Working Knowledge (Harvard Business School Press, 1997). Working Knowledge has sold over 50,000 copies and has been translated into 12 languages. His most recent book, Hidden in Plain Sight: The Role of Social Capital in Organizations, will be published in 2000 by Harvard Business School Press. Larry is frequently quoted on organizational knowledge issues by such business periodicals as Fortune, Business Week, CIO, and many others.

Prior to joining IBM, Larry was a Principal in Ernst & Young�s Center for Business Innovation, specializing in issues of corporate knowledge management. While there, he was responsible for helping to build a consulting practice centered on firms managing their knowledge resources. Larry�s professional background also includes work as a researcher and librarian at Baker Library at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, and as a teacher of social and economic history at several universities.

In 1991, Larry won the SLA Professional Award for Contributions to the Field of Information Science. In 1990, he won the H. W. Wilson Award for the year�s best article on information science. He holds a B.A. in history from Long Island University, an M.A. in economic and social history from New York University (where he completed all the examinations and course work toward a Ph.D.), and an M.S. in information science from Simmons college. He has guest lectured at the Wharton School, Stanford, Harvard, the University of California, and New York University, and is a visiting faculty member for the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College.

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