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The American Political Science Assocation and two of its organized sections, in partnership with Cotelco, recently hosted two free 'rapid response' webconferences on the 2008 elections. The Internet Technology and Politics section, of which Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn serves as president, led the discussion on "The Use of ICT and Social Media in the 2008 Elections," while the Race, Ethnicity and Politics section led "The 2008 Election: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Behavior." Recordings can be viewed by clicking on the session titles.
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Dr. Derrick Cogburn, Dr. Sung-Un Yang, Assistant Professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communications, and Christiane Page, COTELCO Research Associate will speak at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association in San Diego. They will present their paper titled "Perceived Policy Power at the World Summit on the Information Society: How Epistemic Communities and Global Policy Networks Matter". Please click on the link below for more information.
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COTELCO Director Professor Derrick L.Cogburn was interviewed this afternoon by George Kilpatrick on the use of Information and Communication Technologies in the Obama presidential campaign.The interview will air Sunday morning at 9:00 am on Power 106.9 FM
By: Kevin Tampone, The Central New York Business Journal
SYRACUSE - A team at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies (iSchool) will spend the next two years researching and developing curriculum for a new breed of information professionals.
COTELCO director Dr. Derrick Cogburn, along with Associate Dean for Research Jeff Stanton, Dean Elizabeth D. Liddy, SU Chief Information Officer Paul Gandel, and professors R. David Lankes and Megan Oakleaf have received an NSF grant to educate a new type of information professional called a CI Facilitator. This new role will help organizations to facilitate the process of creating and maintaining environments that support distributed collaboration.
Please read more about the grant here in the SUNews.
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
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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