Rik Panganiban

I am a Second Life Producer and Online Leadership Program Associate at Global Kids, a NYC-based nonprofit that empowers young people with technology to be better students and global leaders.

I have nearly 15 years of experience working with a range of organizations from the United Nations to the European Union and many non-profit organizations.

Prior to Global kids , I worked as the program coordinator of a media and democracy program at the Social Science Research Council called "Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere." This program is intended to strengthen the knowledge infrastructure in the media reform field, addressing challenges of coordination and helping build a better culture of collaboration between researchers, advocates, and activists.

Much of my work in the past two years has focused around the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and civil society follow-up to the Millennium Summit and Millennium Development Goals agreed at the United Nations in 2000.

I am becoming increasing active in exploring the online 3D environment of Second Life as a political organizing and educational tool. In Second Life my resident name is "Rik Riel."

More on my speaking credentials.