Professional Service and Activities
Academics
tend to (want to) do many disparate things, despite the "publish or
perish" myth, and I've spent a fair amount of time working with
students on projects, outreach activities, etc. I have
especially
spent time on issues relating to technology and developing regions.
The Center for Appalachian Network
Access (CANA),
founded by John Whitehill and Bruce Maggs, does
amazing things for underserved regions here within the US. Spending a
little time in rural Pennsylvania mentoring students and working with
the local community highlighted for me that the
digital divide is global, and a moving target.
I
served as Vice-Chair
of the UN ICT Task Force
Working Group on Enabling Environment (formerly, Low-Cost Connectivity
Access). This Task Force was recently superceded by the
Global Alliance on ICT and Development (GAID).
I
am
on the Technology
Advisory Board for Southern
California Edison's Advanced Metering Infrastructure poject.
This "smart metering" project is leading the redesign of
open-standard based innovating metering and control.
I serve or have
served on the program committee for a number of conferences or
workshops, including the Intl. Conferences on ICT and Development
(ICTD), the Telecommunications
Policy Research Conference (TPRC), IFIP WG9.4 (Social
Implications of Computers in Developing Countries), SIGCOMM Network Systems
for Developing Regions Workshop, and IJCAI
AI in ICT for Development Workshop. (A number of
these are over multiple years.) I am Program Co-chair of ICTD2009, to be
held April 2009.
I am an Associate Editor at the journal Information
Technology and International Development, and on the
editorial board of I/S:
A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society.
I was a member of the organizing and editorial committee
{~co-editor} for Materials Research Society Bulletin's special issue on
Harnessing
Materials for Energy. I am on the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization's
Editorial Board for the Commonwealth African Rural Connectivity
Initiative (COMARCI) Report . I have also been a reviewer
for a over a dozen journals and conferences, excluding reviews part of
being an editorial board or program committee member.
I am a
member of
Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and their
Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), Power and
Energy Society (PES),
and the Communications Society (ComSoc).
I am a member
of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
and their Special Interest Group on Computers and Society (SIGCAS).
I am
also an active participant/member in a number of discussion lists,
including Dave
Farber's exceptional Interesting People [IP] list, the
community at InfoDev,
the Association of African Internet Service Provider Associations (AfrISPA), and a few
private groups covering ICTD and also the future of the Net.
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