The co-ordinator is Jean Thompson, interpreter and translator - who also writes and promotes U3A online courses. A long-serving member and ex-Chairman of the Third Age Trust she set up the UK Subject Networks many years ago.

She says "in my lifetime, I have learnt twelve languages, including the big ones, Russian and Chinese. Nowadays, I only read in six". She can be reached by email to jean799thompson@btinternet.com or by writing to:-- 26 Riverside Court Caversham Reading RG4 8AL Tel: 0118 947-7968 Fax: 0118 947-4194

Rick Swindell is co-founder and former president of U3A Online and edits the Australian/New Zealand edition of U3A Signpost from Brisbane, Australia.

He also maintains the Australia/New Zealand U3A website http://u3aoznewz.org

I'm Dianne Delchau - originally a teacher, I joined U3A Sunshine Coast, in 1997 and by 2000 was Class Administrator then eventually Vice President. and was involved with the organisation of the U3ASC conference and the development of a 5 year Strategic Plan.

In April 2006 Rick Swindell and Tom Holloway came to U3ASC, for a seminar on the Timewitnesses project. Rick convinced me to join U3A Online and by the end of that year I was the Administrator. The following year I added President to my roles, a responsibility I relish given the new opportunities that Skype and Flashmeeting offer.

Professor R N Kapoor is former Vice-Chancellor of Chitrakoot University in Madhya Pradesh, Director of the Institute of Engineering and Rural Technology Allahabad, and Founder and former President of the Indian Society of Universities of the Third Age. An early interest in rural development led to him setting up the Allahabad Society for Rural Self-governance

His tireless work right across the Indian sub-continent has seen the growth of the U3A movement from one group to more than twenty in three years.

Tom Holloway lives in Hyderabad in India much if the year where he works for several charities making fund-raising films and websites. His main energies go into running a Community Free-school in an impoverished community of Dalits and landless families.

He is Editor of U3A Signpost (UK) and webmonger of http://worldu3a.org and many other charity websites.

He has helped to put more than 50 local U3A Groups onto the World-Wide-Web. He also offers telephone assistance with setting up a 'wiki' or a website for other local groups. He can be reached on SKYPE as tomathollowaysorg