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Cotelco Director, Dr. Derrick Cogburn, is attending the annual Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference held from April 4-9 in Boston, MA. The conference, hosted by ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI), is entitled "Digital Life, New World" and will include nearly 2000 attendees from 38 countries. To learn more about the 27th annual CHI conference including program, plenary speakers, and exhibits, visit the CHI conference website.
Drs. Milton Mueller and Derrick Cogburn (Cotelco Director) were recently elected to lead the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet). Mueller was elected to a two-year term as chair of GigaNet, while Cogburn was re-elected to the GigaNet board as chair of the Communication Committee.
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Cotelco Director Dr. Derrick Cogburn was recently elected president of the International Communication Section of the International Studies Association (ICOMM ISA), where he will be responsible for recruitment, budget, and other planning decisions.
Benjamin Addom's poster, ICTs for Synergy: A Case Study of Scientific Knowledge and Local Farmers' Innovative Activities in Ghana, won one of the best poster awards at the iConference held on Tuesday, February 10, 2009.
Pictures of Ben and other iSchool PhD students and their posters can be viewed at the Syracuse iConference blog.
Going Global, Locally
Cotelco
The Center for Research on Collaboratories and Technology Enhanced Learning Communities (Cotelco) is a social science research center in the School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University, and is organized to explore the socio-technical infrastructure required to support geographically distributed collaboration and knowledge work, particularly between developed and developing countries. Cotelco is also an affiliated center of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI): Centers of Innovation on Disability.
Research Agenda
Our broad research agenda uses mixed-methods approaches to investigate three inter-related themes. The first theme takes an interdisciplinary social science approach to explore the institutional mechanisms for global governance and international regime formation for the Internet and information and communication technology, with a particular focus on epistemic communities and transnational policy networks. Applied, use-inspired research drives the second theme, which focuses on designing, implementing, and evaluating accessible cyberinfrastructure, collaboratories and virtual organizations to support geographically distributed collaboration at national and international levels. Finally, the third theme integrates lessons learned from these streams into an exploration of geographically distributed collaborative learning environments. In 2002, John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, nominated Cotelco for a Computerworld Honors Award (also known as the Smithsonian Innovation Award) for its contribution to building the Information Society. A case study on Cotelco is on deposit in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and in museums and archives around the world.
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Research Themes
Global Governance and Transnational Networks
Cyberinfrastructure and Virtual Organizations
Geographically Distributed Collaborative Learning
Supporting Organizations
Alliance for Community Technology (ACT) Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work Microsoft Research National Science Foundation Cisco Systems United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization
Alliance for Community Technology (ACT)
Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work
Microsoft Research
National Science Foundation
Cisco Systems
United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization
Partners at Syracuse University
Convergence Center Internet Governance Project Moynihan Institute CNLP Center for Digital Literacy Burton Blatt Institute Supporting Organizations BLISTS McNair Program CSTEP CNY-PR AGEP CENT
Selected Publications
(Myhill, Cogburn, et al, in press) "Accessible Cyberinfrastsructure-enabled Knowledge Communities in the Disabiliy Community." 18 Assistive Technology Journal (in press).
(Cogburn 2004) Elite Decision Making
(Cogburn & Levinson 2003) US - Africa Virtual Collaboration in Globalization Studies
(Cogburn & Adeya, 2001) Prospects for the Digital Economy in South Africa: Technology, Policy, People and Strategies
more publications
Events
Upcoming Events
COTELCO invites you to attend its iFaire and Mayfest session on:“Collaborative Technology for Global Communication”The research staff will showcase the center’s projectsYou may join us physically in Hinds Hall Room 111, Syracuse Universityor virtually at http://cotelcocave.syr.edu, Room Name: “iFaire Session: Collaborative Technology for Global Communication”April 22nd, from 12 noon – 2:00 EST
The COTELCO Lab meets every Wednesday virtually via Elluminate Live!. Project specific meeting schedules can be found from the respective project websites.
University Partners
Syracuse UniversityAmerican UniversityHoward UniversityWits UniversityUniversity of Fort HareUniversity of Pretoria