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Steve Cisler
Steve manages the Network Outreach program in the Advanced Technology Group
at Apple Computer in Cupertino, California. His background is in public libraries where he
worked for 14 years before coming to Apple in 1988.
He runs the Apple Library of
Tomorrow program that provides equipment and software for innovative research and
demonstration projects in all types of libraries. Since 1993 it has been involved in
developing community based networks where libraries are deeply involved.
Other programs in Network Outreach include web publishing instruction and research
and an effort to secure large amounts of radio spectrum for free, public use in
schools, libraries, homes, and business.
He has written for Library Journal,
Online, Whole Earth Review,and Wired.
Evan Steve Crandall
(Evan) Steve Crandall is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the
Information Systems and Services Research Laboratory of AT&T Research (or
AT&T Bell Labs depending on your calendar).
He holds a Ph.D. in High Energy Physics from SUNY at Stony Brook and has
been involved in the Internet since graduate school. In the past few
years the Internet has become a major research interest.
For the past two years Steve has been involved in volunteer efforts to
bring usable bandwidth to schools and other community organizations and
the interesting technical and social problems.
Dr. William J. Bramble, Ph.D.
Dr. Bramble is Director of the Distance Education Center and Media Technology
Services at the University of New Mexico main campus. In that role he administers
the university's distance education programs including
course production, course
delivery and coordination, communications systems
and engineering, and program
development. He also holds the rank of full
professor in the Training and Learning
Technologies program of the UNM
College of Education.
Dr. Bramble holds masters degrees in experimental psychology and
educational
research. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in
Education (Measurement,
Evaluation, and Statistical Analysis). Dr. Bramble
has worked in the field of
educational technology and telecommunications for
over 20 years, serving with a
number of agencies and administering large
federal and state grants totaling over $10 million.
Prior to joining the staff of the University of New Mexico Dr. Bramble
served
as Distance Education Program Manager for the Institute for
Simulation and Training
(IST) at the University of Central Florida. At IST
he also served as principal
investigator for several large contracts with
the Department of Defense.
He conducted research for the Defense Language
Institute, the Defense Training
and Performance Data Center, and the Defense
Institute for Training Resources
Analysis. Previously he served as Director
of the Office of Educational Technology
and Telecommunications for the
Alaska Department of Education and as a faculty
member and acting chair of
the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling
at the University of
Kentucky.
Dr. Bramble has authored or coauthored
over 100 publications including: two
textbooks, numerous journal articles, technical
reports, and presentations.
He has served as a member or officer in a number of
statewide and national
organizations and as a distance education planning consultant
to various
organizations including the Department of Defense, State of Alaska,
Queensland Australia Department of Education, Canadian Government, and others.
Paul M.A. Baker, AICP
Paul M.A. Baker is a Research Fellow with the Center for Regional
Analysis, at The Institute of Public Policy, George
Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia. He also holds an adjunct faculty
appointment with the Department of Public and
International Affairs, teaching courses in the areas of state and
local government, and research methodology. Mr. Baker is currently working with the
Morino Institute researching institutional issues involved in community information
infrastructure development, and economic policy implementation and
assessment.
His research experience includes studies based on
combined survey research, and qualitative (focus and nominal group)
approaches for both private and public sectors clients. He is currently a
Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy at George Mason University, and holds an
M.P. in Urban Planning from the University of Virginia, and an M.A. in
International Transactions from George Mason University. He is a member
of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Don Beagle
Don Beagle is Head of Main Library in Charleston, SC. and also serves as
Managing Editor of the Charleston
Multimedia Project, a collaborative
WWW guide to the history, architecture, and culture of Charleston
. He received his MLS from the University of
Michigan, and a Certificate in Public Administration from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He formerly worked as
Director of the Lee County Library System in North Carolina, where he
was also Library Coordinator for the Independent Scholars Program at
Duke University. His articles have appeared in numerous journals,
including Popular Government, Public Library Quarterly, and Libri: the
International Library Review.
Richard Bryant, Ph.D.
Dr. Richard W. Bryant is the Managing Director for Projects and R&D
for the La Plaza Telecommunity Foundation Inc., and is one of the
founders of La Plaza. He has been on the faculty of the University of
New Mexico--Taos Education Center Computer Technology
Department over the last two years. Dr. Bryant also owns R.W. Bryant
Associates, an advanced technology market research firm based in El Prado, NM
that provides advanced technology consulting for governments and companies
worldwide.
Prior to coming to New Mexico, Dr. Bryant was the Director of the Optic
and Electro-optics and Telecommunications Divisions of a major east coast
technology market research firm. He has also taught in the European Division
of the University of Maryland, Rutgers University, and the University of
Pennsylvania.
Richard W. Bryant
Managing Director-Projects and R&D
La Plaza Telecommunity Foundation
rb@laplaza.taos.nm.us
P.O. Box 1828
El Prado, NM 87529
Tel/fax: +1-505-758-1919
Paul Cross
Paul A. Cross began his computing career at the age of 15
writing interactive computer games. He holds a degree
from Dartmouth College in Creative Writing and Computer
Science. His work in computer animation has been seen
world-wide and includes film work in Ghost in the Machine,
Darkman, Star Trek V, Coca-Cola, and Nova.
Mr. Cross is a co-founder of La Plaza, and now serves as
Director of Technology. He has extensive user interface
design experience. He was instrumental in the co-
development of the La Plaza interface. Mr. Cross presents
nationally on Community Networking including the recent
"Ties That Bind" community networking conference
sponsored by Apple Computer and the Morino Institute,
ACE and Society and the Future of Computing Conferences.
pacross@laplaza.taos.nm.us
Howard Besser
Howard Besser is Visiting Associate Professor of Information & Library
Studies at the University of Michigan, and a specialist in multimedia and
image databases, particularly in cultural repositories.
Dr. Besser used a variety of distant-independent technologies to teach
a course (on the impact of new technologies) in both Ann Arbor and
Berkeley Spring 1995. He is interested in discovering which delivery
methods work best for delivery of different forms of curriculum, and has
explored fixed classroom interaction for lectures, and videophone
connections for office hours and student-to-student meetings. He is
particularly interested in delineating the infrastructure that is
necessary for curricular support materials and for collaborary work. He
is currently editing an issue of "Journal of the American Society for
Information Science" devoted to Distant-Independent Learning,
and has written several articles on aspects of distance education
as well as upon it's social, cultural, and educational impact.
Howard Besser
Visiting Associate Professor
School of Information & Library Studies
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092
(313)764-3417 (voice)
(313)764-2475 (fax)
howardb@umich.edu
http://www.sils.umich.edu/~howardb/
Sara Behrman
Sara Behrman is the Director of the Mideastern Michigan Library
Cooperative, a membership organization serving libraries in Genesee,
Shiawasee, Lapeer and northern Oakland counties in southwest Michigan.
Sara has a B.A. in Russian and Comparative Literature from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.A. in Library Science from the University of
Iowa, and all but the capstone paper completed for her M.P.A. from Lewis
& Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Sara has worked in libraries in five
states: Wisconsin, Iowa, New York, Washington and Michigan. Her efforts
in electronic community networking began in 1993; she planned Internet
training classes for librarians and served as an active member of a
developing local free-net... the Genesee Free-Net. Sara served on the
Board of the Genesee Free-Net for one and a half years and is a charter
member. Sara has lectured on the free-net movement, community networks,
and has established three Internet and community networking training
centers by partnering with various organizations and by active (and often
productive) grantwriting. Sara is currently working with other partners
to develop and deliver Internet training to librarians and other
community leaders, as well as facilitating the collaboration of active
community networking players in the development of important local
content for community networks in several Michigan communities.
Sara Behrman, Director Mideastern Michigan Library Cooperative
432 N Saginaw Street, Suite 206 Flint, MI 48502 (810) 232-7119 (voice)
(810) 232-6639 (fax) email: sbehrman@genesee.freenet.org
Jim Burger
Mr. Burger is Senior Director, Worldwide Government Affairs at Apple Computer,
Inc. Jim is responsible for Apple's public policy issues before international,
national and local government bodies. In 1991, Jim was instrumental in starting
the process that radically transformed unlicensed services when he spearheaded
the submission of Apples "Data-PCS Petition for Rulemaking." Jim is intimately
involved in Apple's "NII Band" submission for unlicensed spectrum in the 5 GHz
band. Prior to joining Apple, Mr. Burger was a Partner at Shaw, Pittman, Potts
and Trowbridge. Mr. Burger received his J.D. (1971) from New York University
School of Law, and his M.A. (1968) and B.A. (1967) from New York University.
Mr. Burger also taught advanced administrative law at the University of
Virginia Law School.
Amy Borgstrom
Amy Borgstrom is Executive Director of the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks,
located in Athens, Ohio. She has two Masters degrees in communications and information
science, as well as extensive experience in coalition building on the grassroots, state
and regional level. She has worked in development and networking for private non-profit
corporations for the last ten years.
In past positions she has been involved in small business development and labor-
management relations. She currently shares responsibility for the development of
ACEnet's flexible manufacturing networks project, and is especially involved in
aspects of the project focusing on the impact of new information technologies on
community transformation efforts. She works with microenterprise firms focusing on
two market niches, as well as others in the economic development community, on a
project designed to show how a regional community network can be used as a platform
to amplify and support job creation efforts. ACEnet is currently designing and
carrying out a number of strategies to ensure the sustainability of community
networks and non-profit organizations by developing new kinds of products, services,
and partnerships. About Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACEnet) ACEnet
is a non-profit community development organization working to revitalize the economy
of Appalachian Ohio. Founded in 1985, ACEnet is committed to the development of a
sustainable regional economy based on economic justice, self determination and respect
for diversity. For the last several years, we have focused our efforts on job creation
and retention by establishing flexible manufacturing networks (FMNs) in southeastern
Ohio. Flexible manufacturing networks bring together groups of very small firms to
collaboratively manufacture items for custom or niche markets. In northern Italy and
Denmark, areas with significant FMN formation have experienced dramatic economic
revitalization, generating many new jobs and businesses and substantially increasing
the standard of living.
After a year of research on the European model, ACEnet
initiated its FMN project in southeastern Ohio. The goal of the project is to
introduce small manufacturing firms in this rural, 11-county region to a new,
high-value markets. ACEnet is currently working on the development of two niche
markets--one that focuses on special housing needs and value added wood products,
and one that focuses on specialty food production. We are convinced that FMNs provide
a way for small manufacturing firms in southeastern Ohio to compete in the global
marketplace. In addition, the FMN strategy can lead to gains in employment and
productivity, and an increasingly skilled workforce.
-- Amy Borgstrom
Appalachian Center for Economic Networks94 Columbus Road
Athens, OH 45701 (614) 592-3854
(614) 593-5451 (fax)
(614) 593-7171 (tdd)
aa020@seorf.ohiou.edu
Dr. George D. Baldwin
George was born in Ponca City,
Oklahoma in December of 1952. For the first two years of his
life he was raised on his uncle George Lessert's
ranch. When Kaw tribal land was sold for the eventual construction of
the Kaw Reservoir, his father David (Osage roll number 1443) chose
to attend college at the Haskell Indian College in Kansas. Later
graduating from Kansas University, David accepted a job with the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and moved the family to the remote Bannock
Creek region of the Shoshone-Bannock Reservation in Idaho to work as
an Adult Education Specialist. This move was the first of a series of
moves for the Baldwin family as they followed David's career with the
BIA.
George was raised on and attended Indian schools on the
Shoshone-Bannock Reservation (Idaho), Umatilla Reservation (Oregon),
Yankton Sioux Reservation (South Dakota) and finally returned home to
the Osage Reservation (Oklahoma) when his father became the first
tribal member to be appointed as BIA Superintendent for the Osage
Tribe. In college, George received B.A. degrees in Psychology and
Sociology from Northeastern State in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. His
Master's degree is in Indian Manpower Economics. His Ph.D. is in
Sociology (areas of specialty include Complex Organization, Social
Psychology, and Research Methodology). Both were earned at Oklahoma
State University. His graduate work was supported in part by grants
from the Department of Labor and the American Sociological
Association Minority Fellowship Program. During graduate
school he worked as a consultant in tribal planning for the
Jicarilla Apache (New Mexico), the Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation (Oregon), as well as the Osage and the
Cherokee Tribes (Oklahoma). His master's thesis was a study of
manpower training and labor force participation on the Osage
reservation. His doctoral dissertation was a comparison of two
tribal governments, the Otoe-Missouri and Cherokee.
His research interests have been focused on the potential role of
telecommunications (the "information superhighway') as a development
tool for rural indigenous populations in North America. His
concerns for equity of access to information technology and the
creation of an "information poor" lower class play a central role
in his policy studies. His work has helped create and support
several public computer networks, including INDIANnetª, the first
Indian owned and operated public data network in the US His
research and demonstration projects have been supported by grants
from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the National Science Foundation
and the National Endowment of the Humanities. Today he is a
Professor and Faculty Planner at California State University Monterey
Bay. At CSUMB he is Director of the Community Information Resource
Institute and INDIANnet Census Information Center. He teaches
courses on community networking technology, telecommunication
policy, and the social behavior of groups and individuals on
computer networks.
He can be reached by voice at 408-582-3625 , by email at
George_Baldwin@Monterey.Edu ,
and through the World Wide Web at
http://www.monterey.edu
Laura Breeden
Laura Breeden is currently an independent technology consultant based in
Westford, Massachusetts.
From 1994 to 1996 Ms. Breeden was director of a highly competitive,
multi-million dollar federal grant program designed to demonstrate the
benefits of the "information superhighway" in the public sector. Under her
leadership, more than 200 organizations received a total of $60 million
through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the
U. S. Department of Commerce.
In addition to directing the grant program, Ms. Breeden was involved at
senior levels in the formation of federal policy on the use of technology in
education, health care and social services.
Prior to joining the Commerce Department, from 1991 to 1994, Ms. Breeden was
executive director of FARNET (the Federation of American Research Networks),
a non-profit association of Internet service providers whose mission is to
promote the use of the Internet for research and education. While at FARNET,
she conceived of and co-edited "51 Reasons: How We Use the Internet and What
It Says about the Information Superhighway", a collection of stories from
Internet users about how network access benefited their personal and
professional lives.
From 1983 to 1991 Ms. Breeden held a series of positions in the Network
Services Group at Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She was instrumental in the formation of NEARnet, the New England Academic
and Research Network.
Ms. Breeden's additional work in the public sector includes several years in
community-based child care and three years as a fund-raiser for an
international development and relief agency.
Ms. Breeden is a 1973 graduate of Oberlin College, where she was elected to
Phi Beta Kappa.
Richard Civille
Richard Civille is the Executive Director of the Center for Civic
Networking, a non-profit organization based in Massachusetts that puts
information infrastructure to work for community economic development,
delivery of non-profit services and citizen participation in governance.
Mr. Civille was a co-founder in 1982 of the ECONET global computer
conferencing system serving over 5,000 environmental groups and advocates,
and is a founding board member of CapAccess, the civic networking
organization serving over 12,000 in the national capital area.
He has consulted to the Office on Technology Assessment concerning
delivery of federal services using information technology and with
numerous non-profit organizations. He is writing a book on civic
networking for O'Reilly and Associates. He has appeared on C-SPAN
and CBS Sunday Morning. Mr. Civille is a graduate of the University
of California, Santa Cruz and previously served as Director of Information
Services at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, D.C.