Derrick Cogburn
- dcogburn@syr.edu
- Telephone
- 315-443-5441
- Personal website
- http://cotelco.syr.edu/~dcogburn/
- Interests
- Internet Governance (ICANN / IGF), ITU, Internet, Community/municipal broadband, Filtering, Internet Service Providers, Network neutrality, Search engines, Standards / Protocols, Universal access, Webcasting / Streaming / IPTV, Networks
- Role(s)
- Researcher
Current Institutional Affiliation(s)
-
The School of Information Studies
Syracuse UniversitySyracuse, NY
-
Internet Governance Project
Syracuse, NY, United States
Discipline(s)
- Communications
Biography
Professor Cogburn is an expert on global information and communication technology (ICT) policy and in the use of ICTs for socio-economic development. He is currently an assistant professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies and senior research associate at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs. Dr. Cogburn also directs the Collaboratory on Technology Enhanced Learning Communities (Cotelco), an award-winning social science research collaboratory investigating the social and technical factors that influence geographically distributed collaborative knowledge work, particularly between developed and developing countries. He is also a faculty affiliate with the Convergence Center, is a member of the Internet Governance Project, and is a faculty member of the Syracuse University Africa Initiative.
Publications and Resources
Journal Articles
- Derrick Cogburn. Diversity matters, even at a distance: Evaluating the impact of computer-mediated communication on civil society participation in the World Summit on the Information Society. Information Technologies and International Development.
Book Chapters
- Derrick Cogburn. "Elite decision-making and epistemic communities: Implications for global information policy." , 2004.