Don Michaels

Name: Don Michaels

E-mail: michaeld@oswego.edu

Organization: Instructional Computing Center - SUNY Oswego

City and State: Oswego, NY

Area of Employment: education

How I heard about Network Democracy:

From participants in the civtalk listserv. This is a group of individuals and organizations who submitted grants to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in response to an RPF for creating content for civic networks.

My experience in this area:

I have a strong technical background in computing and significant experience as the User Support/Electronic Information Coordinator for campus community of about 10,000. In addition, we have recently formed a coalition of local educational, governmental, civic, and business groups and individuals to create an online community in this primarily rural area.

What I hope to learn:

1) Learn the details of the issues of those concerned most about fostering competition and ensuring universal access. 2) Contribute to the debate on how to best guarantee public access to the emerging computer and communications technologies. 3) I also expect to learn a great deal about how and how well and on-line seminar of this size works.

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