Ineke Buskens currently leads the GRACE (Gender Research into Information Communication Technology for Empowerment) Network involving 21 research teams in 14 countries in Africa and the Middle East. Before she started her company Research for the Future in 1996, she was Head of the Centre for Research Methodology at the Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria, South Africa for five years. Together with Anne Webb, she is editor of the book African Women and ICT: Investigating Technology, Gender and Empowerment (Zed 2009).
Anne Webb is the Research Coordinator of GRACE. She has worked with communities and research teams for the past 25 years pursuing the reduction of inequalities. She currently resides in Hull, Quebec, Canada.