Winfried Hamacher Editor

The Editors: Manfred Oepen completed studies of communication and political studies at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany and at Stanford University in the United States. Between 1984 and 1993, he managed projects with integrated media support systems in Indonesia in both rural and urban community development and environmental contexts. Since 1992, he is general manager of a private consulting company (ACT - Appropriate Communication in Development), where he oversees development and environmental communication related projects. Winfried Hamacher holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering and Social Sciences from the Universities of Duesseldorf and Bochum, Germany. He worked as a teacher and as a free lance lecturer from 1982-87, and at a professional school in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 1988-90. He has been working for the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) since 1991.