Mrs. Bishop, 33, is a technology advisory consultant at Forrester Research, a technology research firm in Cambridge, Mass.
The new report by the technology advisory panel is another sign that open source is an emerging force.
Egon Durban, a Silver Lake managing partner, will join WME Entertainment's executive committee and help create a technology advisory counsel in the agency.
Egon Durban, above, a Silver Lake managing partner, will join WME Entertainment's executive committee and help create a technology advisory counsel in the agency.
That approach, he said, eroded the perceived independence that is critical to consultants at Kearney, which sells management and technology advisory services.
Mr. de los Santos, 35, works in Scottsdale as the president and the chief executive of Skyblue International, an investment and technology advisory company based in Las Vegas.
Although Mr. Raseij has been a donor and adviser to Democratic candidates — he served as chairman of the technology advisory group of the Howard Dean campaign — he has recruited former campaign workers from both parties as bloggers.
A vocal backer of George W. Bush's presidential campaign who contributed $266,000 to the party and the campaign last year, he has figured prominently in President Bush's technology advisory meetings since the election.
During the 1990s he headed the science and technology advisory committee of the Global Climate Coalition, an industry group that lobbied aggressively against the scientific consensus around the causes of climate change.
Irving Wlanawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. software executive who is a co-chairman of the president's information technology advisory committee, estimates that by 2005 the software-dependent technology in use will be 100 times the amount today because the plummeting cost of computing devices, all connected to the Internet, will make them more widespread.
