Two iSchool professors elected into leadership roles with GigaNet
2/25/2009
The School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University is pleased to announce that Professor Milton Mueller was elected to a two-year term as chair of Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet). Professor Derrick L. Cogburn was also elected to a third-term on the Giganet board as chair of the Communication Committee.
GigaNet is an emerging community of scholars that works in conjunction with the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum. GigaNet seeks to connect scholars from across the globe who are interested in studying Internet governance and to promote Internet governance as an important field of study.
The group also conducts theoretical and applied research on how the Internet is being managed in various countries and where the world as a whole is heading in terms of Internet governance. GigaNet members’ work and discussions inform policymakers and other Internet governance stakeholders such as government, private companies, and international
organizations.
In his role as chair, Mueller acts as the main point of public contact with the network, leads the coordination of its operations, and prepares the agenda for and facilitates the discussions of Executive Committee and Steering Committee meetings.
Mueller is an internationally known scholar on Internet governance and he wrote the first scholarly account about Internet governance in his book,
Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace. He is also the co-director and founder of the Convergence Center, an interdisciplinary research center at SU involving the iSchool and the Newhouse School of Public Communications that investigates the future of digital media. Mueller earned a B.A. in animation and filmmaking from Columbia College, as well as an M.A. in communications from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Pennsylvania.
As chair of the Communications Committee, Cogburn develops the web site, coordinates the evaluation of technology, and develops and implements a strategy for communication and
collaboration inside GigaNet. Cogburn also coordinates projects between GigaNet and his own research at the Center for Research on Collaboratories and Technology Enhanced Learning Communities (Cotelco). For example, Cotelco had a live feed to GigaNet’s symposium in December that took place in Hyderabad, India, and will provide a live feed to the next annual symposium in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt.
In addition to their roles at the iSchool, Mueller and Cogburn are senior research associate at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and are members of the Internet Governance Project (internetgovernance.org), an interdisciplinary consortium of academics with scholarly and practical expertise in international governance, Internet policy, and information and communication technology.
Cogburn earned a B.A. in history and political science from the University of Oklahoma, an M.A. in political science from Howard University, and a Ph.D. in political science from Howard University.
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