Accessible Global Governance: The (In)Visibility of Persons with Disabilities in the United Nations System

Thursday, December 9, 2021 3:30 AM to 5:00 AM KST
Zoom

 Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn is Professor in the International Communication and International Development Programs in the School of International Service and Professor in the Information Technology and Analytics Department in the Kogod School of Business at American University (AU) in Washington, DC. He is also the Founding Executive Director of the AU Institute on Disability and Public Policy and Co-Director of the AU Internet Governance Lab. Dr. Cogburn serves as Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series Information Technology and Global Governance and serves on editorial boards for the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Review of Policy Research, and the Journal of Political Science Education. He serves as a member of the Boards of Directors for the US Chess Center, Global Universal Design Commission, Seafarers Yacht Club of Annapolis, Seafarers Foundation, and the Annapolis Maritime Museum. He also serves as Skipper of Sea Scout Ship 1959, the 2001 BoatUS National Flagship. Previously, he served on the Committee of Visitors for the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure. He is former Chair of the Review Panel for the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Diplomacy, Security and Development, Science Technology Policy Fellowships, and served as a member of the inaugural AAAS Big Data and Analytics Fellowship Committee, later serving as its chair. He also serves on the Fellowship Review Panel for the American Association of University Women. He served as a founding member of the High-Level Panel of Advisors for the United Nations Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development. Dr. Cogburn has been Principal Investigator on grants from a wide variety of government, private sector, and foundation sources, including: The National Science Foundation, Department of Education, Microsoft, Microsoft Research, Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems, JPMorgan Chase, WK Kellogg Foundation, and The Nippon Foundation. At Syracuse University, he was tenured Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies and Senior Research Associate in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School. He is past president of the Information, Technology, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association and of the International Communication section of the International Studies Association. He served as Executive Director of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission – Africa and Vice Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network. He holds a PhD in political science from Howard University in Washington, DC, where he was a member of the founding class of W.K. Kellogg Doctoral Fellows at the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center. He hails from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

December 9, 2021

3:30am - 5:00 am KST

https://gmu.zoom.us/j/97147563500?pwd=bkYyN3QvcW1KRVB3cm9hRXBUYkx6dz09

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