Speaker: Heather E. Hudson, From Rural Village to Global Village: ICTs in Development

Professor Heather E. Hudson is Director of the Telecommunications Management and Policy Program in the School of Business and Management at USF.

She received her MA and PhD in Communication Research from Stanford. She is the author of From Rural Village to Global Village: Telecommunications for Development in the Information Age (January 2006) and several other books including Global Connections: International Telecommunications Infrastructure and Policy, Electronic Byways, Rural America in the Information Age, Communication Satellites: Their Development and Impact, and When Telephones Reach the Village.

Dr. Hudson has planned and evaluated communication projects in northern Canada, Alaska, and more than 50 developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Latin America. She has consulted for government agencies, consumer and indigenous organizations, telecommunications companies, and international organizations including the World Bank, the ITU, UNDP, UNESCO, USAID, CIDA, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and the Commonwealth of Learning. She has published many articles and presented numerous conference papers and expert testimony on telecommunications applications and policy issues such as universal service, information infrastructure, and telecommunications planning for socio-economic development.

She has been a Sloan Industry Fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer for the Asia/Pacific and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, Senior Fellow at CIRCIT (the Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies) in Australia, and Fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii.

PLEASE NOTE: the location of this seminar has changed from Cordura 100 to the DV Lounge.