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Biography of
Derrick L. Cogburn, Assistant Professor, School of
Information, University of Michigan
Professor
Cogburn is an expert in global information and
communication technology (ICT) policy and in the
use of ICTs for socio-economic development. He is
currently an assistant professor of Information
and African Studies at the University of Michigan
School of Information and the Center for
Afroamerican and African Studies. Dr. Cogburn also
chairs the faculty advisory committee for the
South Africa Initiatives Office at the University.
He serves on advisory boards for the UM Center for
Research on Learning & Teaching, and the
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. In
addition, Dr. Cogburn is a visiting professor at
the School of International Service at American
University and also at the Graduate School of
Management at the University of the Witwatersrand
in Johannesburg. He is the former executive
director of the Global Information Infrastructure
Commission - Africa, and has served as advisor to
several government agencies and international
organizations including the South African
Department of Arts, Culture, Science and
Technology, Department of Foreign Affairs,
Department of Communications, and the Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research; Canadian
International Development Research Center;
Commonwealth IT Network; United Nations Education,
Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United
Nations Economic Commission for Africa; the
International Telecommunication Union, and the
World Bank. In these various roles, Dr. Cogburn
helped to negotiate a science and technology
agreement between South Africa and Egypt, served
on the High-Level Working Group of the Economic
Commission for Africa tasked with developing the
African Information Society Initiative, and served
as a senior member of the program committee to
plan the historic G7 Information Society and
Development Conference, held in South
Africa.
He has published several articles, book
chapters, and edited books on the political
economy of globalization, the information economy,
electronic commerce, international regime
formation and governance of the Global Information
Society. He has also written on geographically
distributed, collaborative learning, and community
information centers. Prof. Cogburn is currently
finishing a book manuscript entitled "The
Embedded South African State: Understanding the
Impact of Globalization and State-Society Networks
on Telecommunications and Information Society
Development."
Dr. Cogburn has served as principal
investigator on research grants from a number of
organizations including, the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation, Microsoft Research, UNESCO, USIA. He
holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (International
Relations, Political Economy) from Howard
University, and was a W.K. Kellogg doctoral fellow
at the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs
Center.
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