John Naughton Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University and Director of the Wolfson, College, Cambridge Press Fellowship Programme.

He is also a columnist on the London Observer, for which he writes the 'networker' column; a director of the Ndiyo Project and of Cambridge Visual Networks Ltd; a member of the Advisory Board of Bloomsbury Academic Publishing; and an historian of the Internet. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was a member of the group which wrote the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property.