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Welcome Address

Paul Locatelli, S.J.                                                                    James C. Morgan
                                                                                                Chairman, Applied Materials, Inc.
                                                                               Center Advisory Board Member

Geoffrey Bowker
Conference Moderator: Geoffrey Bowker

Geoffrey C. Bowker as the Executive Director and Regis and Dianne McKenna Chair for the Center for Science, Technology, and Society. Dr. Bowker was previously Chair and Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. His primary interests include social and organizational aspects of the development of very large scale information infrastructures.

Why this and why now?

John Seely Brown
Concluding Speaker: John Seely Brown

John Seely Brown is currently a visiting scholar at the Annenberg Center at USC. He was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation until April 2002 and also the director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) until June 2000—a position he held for twelve years. While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, complex adaptive systems, micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS) and NANO technology. His personal research interests include digital culture and rich media (both of which he pursues at USC), ubiquitous computing, web service architectures and organizational and individual learning.

Panel Speakers:

Howard Charney

Senior Vice President, Office of the President, Cisco Systems

Howard Charney, Senior Vice President, belongs to Cisco’s Office of the President and Executive Staff and reports directly to CEO John Chambers. Charney contributes to Cisco’s strategy and direction, advises customers on implementing critical Internet technologies, and communicates Cisco’s vision to key audiences worldwide. Charney founded Grand Junction Networks, which invented Fast Ethernet and low-cost switching. Cisco acquired Grand Junction in 1995 and charged Charney with growing Cisco’s networking business, after which he led its Small/Medium Business division to market leadership in two-tier distribution of network systems. Charney holds mechanical engineering degrees from MIT and an MBA and JD from Santa Clara University, is a licensed patent attorney, and belongs to the State Bar of California and the Federal Bar.

Howard Charney

Paul David

Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Paul Allen David is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Economic History in the University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and currently Senior Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute. David is the author of more than 150 journal articles and contributions to edited volumes, as well as the author and editor of several books, including Technical Choice, Innovation and Economic Growth (1975) and The Economic Future in Historical Perspective (2003). He was among the pioneering practitioners of the “new economic history,” and is known internationally for wide-ranging contributions in the fields of American economic history, economic and historical demography, and the economics of science and technology. Two main areas of contemporary economic policy research have emerged in his work the past two decades: the evolution of information technology standards and network industries, and the influence of legal institutions and social norms upon the funding and conduct of scientific research in the public sector, and the interactions between that latter and private sector R&D. David currently leads and international research project on the organization, performance, and viability of free and open source software. David’s service as a consultant to international organizations has included work for the World Bank, the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development, the United Nations University Institute, the OECD, and several directorates of the European Commission of the EU.

Paul David

Karin Delgadillo

Executive Director, Chasquinet Foundation, Ecuador

Chasquinet is an a private non-profit organization in Ecuador dedicated to empowering grass-roots organizations, campesinos, minority groups and impoverished sectors in general through the promotion and use of the Internet. Chasquinet views the Internet as a tool that can be used to enable poor communities to improve their living standards, to help them voice their opinions and demands and to create an impact on the crafting of social and economic policies that affect communities. Their work philosophy prioritizes gender. They approach their work with a holistic philosophy that stresses personal growth and development as the crucial elements of organization building and growth.

Karin Delgadillo

Pedro Hepp

Ministry of Education, Chile

Pedro Hepp is currently President of TIDE (Consulting firm and software house); Advisor to the Chilean Ministry of Education on ICT in education; Professor at the Institute of Educational Informatics, University of La Frontera. He was Head of the Enlaces Project (Coordinador Nacional Red Enlaces) from 1990 to 2001. Enlaces is the Information Technology Program of the Chilean Educational Reform. Its aim is to properly integrate information and networking tech?nologies in Chilean public schools. He also served as Head of the “Community Networks” project, funded by Corfo, SubTel, Ministry of Education, Conicyt, local government and other institutions. This project is developing a network of Telecentres in the Region de La Araucan?a in Chile to improve the access of the population to Internet and information processing and to help in the development of local communities, 2000-2002.

Pedro Hepp

John King

Dean and Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan

John Leslie King is Dean and Professor of the School of Information at the University of Michigan. His research is in the problems of developing high-level requirements for information systems design and implementation in strongly institutionalized production sectors. The goal of this work is to improve the design of information technologies for both organizational and institutional usability, through better articulating the processes of requirements analysis, specification, and prototype creation. The work also informs policy and strategy development at the firm, sectoral, and institutional levels. Recent and current projects focus on the role of technical and institutional forces in the co-evolutionary development of intermodal transport and logistics, case management in felony criminal courts, global wireline and wireless telephony, and the transition of the automobile industry from product to service sector. New projects include a study of the institutional forces involved the development of global electronic commerce, and an historical analysis of the evolution of the information disciplines. He served for 20 years on the faculties of computer science and management at UC Irvine before coming to Michigan, as well as a Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. He also has served as Editor in Chief of the INFORMS journal Information Systems Research and as associate editor for ACM Computing Surveys, as well as many other journals. In recent years he has been a Senior Scientific Advisor to the National Science Foundation, and an outside advisor to many IT-related programs in universities in the US and internationally.

John King

Brooke Partridge

Director of Market and Business Development, Hewlett-Packard

Brooke Partridge joined HP’s Emerging Market Solutions Organization in October 2002 as Business Director. She has built a full-functioning business team that developed and commercialized HP’s first technology solution for developing economies. Partridge has also led the creation of an ecosystem of global, multi-lateral partnerships in support of emerging market business activities. Through her contributions and the work of the entire EMS organization, HP is poised to develop and commercialize a portfolio of solutions that benefit HP and the emerging markets in which they are sold. Partridge has extensive background working in emerging markets and non-profit organizations. She incubated new solutions and technologies in the Emerging Business Organization within HP Worldwide Sales. While there, she managed go-to-market project teams and improved commercialization processes for emerging HP businesses. Prior to HP sales, Partridge held a variety of marketing roles for the HP Pavilion PC product line, including worldwide forecasting, e-support solutions development, and business creation for the Pavilion after-market business. Before joining HP, Partridge lectured in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University. She has a Masters of Pacific International Affairs from UC San Diego and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and International Relations from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has lived in several emerging markets including Per?, Chile and M?xico and has spent extended periods of time throughout Western Europe.

Brooke Partridge

Saskia Sassen

Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago and Visiting Professor, London School of Economics

Saskia Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. She is currently completing her forthcoming book Denationalization : Economy and Polity in a Global Digital Age (Princeton University Press 2003) based on her five year project on governance and accountability in a global economy. Her books have been translated into twelve languages. She is co-director of the Economy Section of the Global Chicago Project, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Urban Data Sets, a Member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and Chair of the newly formed Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security Committee of the SSRC.

Saskia Sassen

James Spohrer

Director, IBM Almaden Research Center

James Spohrer is a research scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center, where he manages the User Experience/Human Computer Interaction Research Group. He received a B.S. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Yale University in 1987. From 1978 to 1982, he developed speech recognition technology at Verbex, an Exxon Enterprises company. From 1989 to 1998, he led learning technology and authoring tools projects at Apple's Advanced Technology Group (ATG), and received Apple's Distinguished Scientist award. Dr. Spohrer has published broadly in the areas of empirical studies of programmers, artificial intelligence, authoring tools, on-line learning communities, intelligent tutoring systems and student modeling, speech recognition, and new paradigms in using computers. He has also helped to found two nonprofit Web sites: The Educational Object Economy and WorldBoard: A Planetary Infrastructure for Associating Information with Places.

James Spohrer

John Staudenmaier, S.J.

Visiting Professor, Center for Science, Technology, and Society

John Staudenmaier is spending the 2004-2005 academic year at CSTS at Santa Clara University. He is a professor of history at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he served from 2001-2004 as interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Education. Staudenmaier is also the editor of Technology and Culture, the international quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology. He writes and has frequent speaking engagements in the US and internationally and consults with museums about exhibits, television producers about historical programs, and with science and technology journalists about articles in process. He serves on a variety of boards related to his interests and commitments, including the CSTS Advisory Board and Regis University. In addition, Staudenmaier performs pastoral work as a Jesuit priest. He has a BA and MA in philosophy from St. Louis University and an MA and PHD in history from the University of Pennsylvania.

John Staudenmaier, S.J.

Frank Tansey

Co-Founder, IMS Global Learning Consortium

Frank Tansey is technology consultant as well as a co-editor of eLearning Dialogue, a bi-weekly electronic newsletter. He was the former Project Administrator for CaliforniaColleges.edu, an intersegmental website project involving the University of California, the California State University, California Community Colleges, the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, and the California State Department of Education. Prior to that, he was a member of the founding management team for the IMS Project of the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (EDUCAUSE) that evolved into IMS Global Learning Consortium. These two activities followed a career as a university administrator, the most recent as Associate Vice President for Enrollment Services at Sonoma State University.

Frank Tansey

Roberto Verzola

Advisor, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement

Roberto Verzola is an advisor on sustainable technologies for the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement, a major NGO in the Philippines. He is also the author of Towards a Political Economy of Information (2004), which provides a framework for analyzing recent developments in ICTs and how these developments relate to other issues. Previously Verzola held positions with the University of the Philippines, Philippines Development Alternatives Foundation, and Soljuspax, a foundation that advocates for safe and renewable energy sources. He currently serves on the board of PABINHI, a network of farmers academics, and other groups practicing and advocating sustainable agriculture; the Center for Ecozoic Living and Learning, a demonstration farm and educational center; and the FNS Bulletin Board. Verzola has a degree in electrical engineering form the University of the Philippines.

Read Roberto Verzola's article on Internet cafes

Roberto Verzola

Raoul Weiler

Club of Rome and UNESCO, Paris

Since 1995, Raoul Weiler has held teaching and research positions about the relationship between Technology and Society, especially on the problem of sustainability. Teaching missions at different universities include : Universit? Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL), University of Antwerp (UIA), Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium, and at the latter, a teaching position in the Faculty of Agriculture and Applied Biological Sciences within the Center for Ethics on Agriculture, Life Sciences and Environment (CABME). His industrial career in Germany and Belgium includes in Chemical Industry, Department of Applied Physics and Information Technology. He has served as researcher, manager development of production processes, manager information technology, (1970-1997). Weiler has served as editor and writer on of philosophy of technology, sustainability and global change. Recently: Which European University for the 21^st Century? European Academy for Sciences and Arts, Vienna (A), (2001); Sustainability: A vision for a new Technical Society? Towards an EU Strategy for Sustainable Development. European Commission and Hearing at the European Parliament. Technological Progress in different cultures and periods: Historical evolution projected into the future. In: Global Sustainability. The Impact of Local Cultures. P. A. Wilderer, E. D. Schroeder, H. Kopp (Editors), Wiley-VCH, (2005). The Kyoto Protocol and its Socio-Ethical Aspects. (To be published in 2005)

Raoul Weiler

Michael Yates

Associate Partner, Accenture

Michael Yates is an Associate Partner at Accenture and has been leading work on digital inclusion for the last 5 years. As a member of the Accenture International Chairman's office, he was the instigator of the Opportunity Initiative, Accenture's partnership with the UN Development Programme and the Markle Institute to set a strategy for narrowing the global digital divide. He took a leading role in the World Economic Forum Global Digital Divide Initiative, and supported the International Chairman as a member of the G8 countries' Digital Opportunities Task Force. He has managed successor programs aimed at stimulating knowledge sharing and development, working in co-operation with leading technology companies and non-governmental organisations world-wide. Other work has included consultancy and publications for the UK Commission on Social Justice; shaping and managing a training exercise for Blair Government ministers, run jointly with Templeton College, Oxford; and Accenture's own strategic planning . He also co-operated closely with Accenture's Chief Scientist to research and report on European eCommerce.

Michael Yates

Santa Clara University

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