Diana Goodwin Shavey

Name: Diana Goodwin Shavey

E-mail: Diana_Goodwin@hud.gov

Organization: Dept. Housing & Urban Development

City and State: Seattle, WA

Area of Employment: government

How I heard about Network Democracy:

From the Office of the Secretary of HUD, specifically related to the Campus of Learners initiative.

My experience in this area:

I am the Director of Housing for HUD in Washington State; in that capacity I oversee FHA-insured mortgages for single and multi-family housing (much of the MF is subsidized.) In addition, I am National Field Coordinator for Neighborhood Networks, FHA's effort to place technology-based learning centers into MF housing.http://www.hud.gov/nnw/nnwindex.html We have over 450 sites in planning and nearly 50 in oper- ation nation-wide. We are interested in equal access for the residents of these developments and in seeing that the centers can be connected to schools and jobs/economic development. I have spent a year working on partnerships with federal/state/local/public/private partners to help centers become operational/sustainable, including meetings, working partnerships, and four conferences nationwide. Our Deputy Assistant Secretary for MF Housing has met with Jim Kohlenberger in the VP's Domestic Policy Office discussing whether Neighborhood Networks could be specified sites where universal service could be provided, especially since the Federal government has a huge investment in this real estate ($44 Billion in government-insured loans and $6 Bil annually in rental assistance.) That investment needs to be both protected and leveraged.

What I hope to learn:

1) More about the Telecommunications Act 2) Learn about the thoughts of others nationwide regarding this issue. 3) Promote the importance of in-home access across the "Digital Divide." 4) Introduce on-line participants to HUD's Neighborhood Networks program. 5) Promote NNs as logical location partners.

Additional comments:

Look forward to this.