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COTELCO Research Associates Ankit Banbah & Endri Mataj partnered with the United Nations Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (UN-GAID) to develop an online collaboration strategy. Read more here.
"Distributed collaboration through accessible cyberinfrastructure-enabled knowledge communities"
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2009 at APSA Pre-Conference Worshop Toronto, Canada
You can join live here
COTELCO is facilitating remote participation. There are two options to attend virtually:
1. Joining the webcast at the following website: http://www.un-gaid.org/tabid/1132/default.aspx
2. Participating via Elluminate at: http://bit.ly/GAID_Monterrey
Elluminate will be used for the following GGF sessions:
3 Sept. 11:15am: The Intercultural Innovations in Education
3 Sept. 3pm: Learning and Teaching with ICT
4 Sept. 9:30am: Affordable Computing Models for Schools – Successes and Challenges
4 Sept. 11:30am: Innovations for Breakthroughs in Learning: How to Achieve Mass Results
COTELCO Director Dr. Derrick Cogburn and COTELCO Research Fellow, Fatima K. Espinoza Vasquez to present at their paper: "From Networked Nominee to Networked Nation:Examining the Impact of Web 2.0 and Social Media on Political Participation and Civic Engagement in the 2008 Obama Campaign" at the APSA Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Toronto, Canada. From Sept, 3 to 6. Remote participation will be available. Please check later for details. Read more here.
COTELCO Affiliated Researcher Norhayati Zakaria Appointed Assistant Professors at University of Wollongon in Dubai. Read more here.
Dr. Cogburn, Dr. Nanette Levinson, Fatima Espinoza Vasquez and Angela Ramnarine-Rieks to present “A Decade of Globally Distributed Collaborative Learning: Lessons Learned from Cross-National Virtual Teams “ at the Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) on January 5th, 2010.
All COTELCO associates, researchers, fellows assistants are required to get certified. Please use this link to register and take the course. http://www.citiprogram.org
Dr. Cogburn, Research Associates Ankit Banbah and Endri Mataj will be facilitating the Remote participation for UN-GAID at their Global Forum in Monterrey, Mexico on 3rd-4th Sept.'09.
Going Global, Locally
Cotelco
The Center for Research on Collaboratories and Technology Enhanced Learning Communities (Cotelco) is a joint social science research center in the School of International Service (SIS) at American University and 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
Selected Publications
(Myhill, Cogburn, et al, 2008) Developing Accessible Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Knowledge Communities in the National Disability Community: Theory, Practice, and Policy.Assistive Technology Journal 2008; 20:157-174.
(Cogburn & Levinson, in press) "Teaching Globalization, Globally: A Seven Year Case Study of South Africa -US Virtual Teams." Information Technology and International Development (in press).
(Cogburn, Mueller, McKnight, Klein, Mathiason, 2005) "The US Role in Global Internet Governance." IEEE Communications." December 2005, pp. 52-58.
(Cogburn 2005) Diversity Matters, Even at a Distance
(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