Mei Lin Fung, Co-Chair of People Centered Internet which she co-founded with Vint Cerf. Recently at the Royal Society in London, the People Centered Internet's Jascha Stein and the Web Science Trust's Dame Wendy Hall organized a star studded event including a panel she chaired featuring with Vint Cerf, ITU Secretary General Doreen Bogdan Martin, computing visionary Alan Kay, father of the Semantic Web, Jim Hendler, Ndemo Bitange, Godfather of mPesa; Standout speakers were: Sir Nigel Shadbolt of the UK Open Data initiative, Victoria Nash of the Oxford Internet Initiative and Sir David Payne, Photonics pioneer. Mei Lin is one of the early pioneers of CRM, who worked with Tom Siebel and Marc Benioff on the early prototype at Oracle, she also worked at Shell and Intel. Mei Lin studied Finance at MIT under two future Nobel Economics winners. She served as Socio Technical lead for the US government Federal Health Futures, and was finalist in the GSA Citizen Engagement GEAR challenge and chairs the IEEE Technical Committee on Sustainability. She orrganized “Program for the Future” 2008 with Douglas Engelbart and “40th Anniversary of the Internet” (www.tcpip40.com) in 2014 with Vint Cerf. Fellow of Hasso-Plattner-Institute. Mei Lin curates the People Centered Internet’s Digital Cooperation and Diplomacy network and co-authored G7 policy contributions. She initiated and chaired the 3-day series of 60 speakers, including ITU Secretary General Doreen Bogdan Martin, Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf the fathers of the Internet as part of 10 panels on Digital Cooperation, Governance and Regulations at the UN Science Summit in Sept 2023.
