Laura Forlano is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Interaction Design Lab at Cornell University.  Forlano received her Ph.D. in Communications from Columbia University in 2008. Her dissertation, “When Code Meets Place: Collaboration and Innovation at WiFi Hotspots,” explores the intersection between organizations, technology (in particular, mobile and wireless technology) and the role of place in communication, collaboration and innovation.  Forlano received a Master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University, a Diploma in International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor’s in Asian Studies from Skidmore College.
www.lauraforlano.wordpress.com/

Armin Medosch is a writer, artist and curator working in the field of media art and network culture. In 2007 he curated and hosted the Ars Electronica theme conference "Goodbye Privacy" together with Ina Zwerger. In 2006 he curated the exhibition "WAVES - electromagnetic waves as a material and medium of art", together with RIXC in Riga. Medosch researches the relationship between technological progress and social change, between media art and free and open source software, between electromagnetic waves and code. To further those long term theoretic research interests, he currently builds a new collaborative research platform under the title "The Next Layer".
www.thenextlayer.org/

Alison Powell.is LSE Fellow in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. She received her PhD from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada in 2008, based on a study of the development of community wireless networking in Canada and its contributions to the North American media reform movement. In Summer 2006 she was a research fellow at TelecomParisTech conducting a project on Wi-Fi as a public, private, and shared good, and from 2008 to 2010 she was an SSHRC postdoctoral research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, studying grassroots technology development and digital advocacy and their impact on new media technologies and policies.
www.alisonpowell.ca/

Katrina Jungnickel is Research Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of East London and a member of Studio INCITE in the Sociology Department of Goldsmiths College, University of London. She trained in Sociology at Goldsmiths during which she conducted an ethnography of backyard technologists (WiFi makers and bike makers) in suburban Australia. Her research interests lie at the intersection of DIY technologies, grassroots community practices and messy methods. She holds a BA in Communications, an MA in Visual Culture and a PhD in Sociology and blogs at www.studioincite.com/makingwifi

Gwen Shaffer is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Irvine. There, her research focuses on how to best incorporate telecommunications policy and economics into the Internet architecture. This chapter is based on Shaffer’s doctoral dissertation, which encompassed both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the potential for peer-to-peer networking to help bridge the digital divide in the United States and Europe. Shaffer’s previous studies examined the sustainability of municipal wireless networks; the need for a national broadband policy in the United States; and personal conduct in the blogosphere.
www.ics.uci.edu/

Andreu Veà Internet Research Fellow, Stanford University. Doctor of Engineering in Electronic and Telecommunications from La Salle University (Barcelona). Master in Digital Signal and Information Treatment; and Master in Management Information Technologies. Since 1992, professionally devoted to the Internet in several sectors (Academic, Administration and European Private Industry). After his Doctoral Thesis, that he made "after work" as a hobby during 9 long years (nights and weekends), impelled by Dr Vint Cerf's interest on the project, he quit his job when invited by Stanford University (California, USA) where he is an Internet Research Scholar since early 2003 when this "Historical Project" was born.
www.veabaro.info/

Yann Bona, as a member of Fractalities in Critical Research group, conducts research at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona's Department of Social Psychology where he has been an associate professor on Social Communication. He has also lectured Psychology of Power Relations at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and has been a visiting scholar at the École des Mines Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation in Paris. His work, focused in the relation between government, technology and politics regarding WiFi technologies, has been presented and published in international forums leading him to obtain scholarships from Univesritat Autónoma de Barcelona, the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
wifi-r.molekulab.net/

Efraín Foglia is a designer and lecturer at the Digital Communication Department, Universitat de Vic in Barcelona. He studied Graphic Communication Design in Mexico City, specialized in NewMedia Art in Weimar, Germany, and he´s PhD candidate in Art and Media Culture at the Universitat de Barcelona. His work as designer has been awarded and exhibited in several countries, he has combined his work as a designer with multidisciplinary projects related to the digital culture in the areas of communication and art. He was born in Mexico City and has lived and worked in Barcelona since 2003.
www.proyectoliquido.com/

Roger Baig graduated in Industrial Engineering and Industrial Electronics Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He worked as an associate professor at the Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has done several colaborations with Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. At the moment he doing his master's thesis, works a freelance consultor and devotes most of his spare time to guifi.net project.