Activities, Events & Presentations
- “Country-Level Variation in Open Source Software Policy and Environment”
Presented by Douglas S. Noonan, Ph.D., School of Public Policy, and Paul M.A. Baker, Ph.D., CACP, February 19, 2009, 12:30pm – 1:30pm, at the ICT Research Roundtable Speaker Series. The open source software (OSS) model represents an efficacious alternative to traditional proprietary software usage. Yet relatively little is known about the prevalence of OSS (use, adoption, and development). This paper presents a global Open Source Potential Index (OSPI) measured at the country-level. One rationale for an OSPI is to create a heuristic and common set “tools” to help gauge how well the country’s (political, economic, social, technological) environment is suited to taking advantage of OSS approaches. This metric readily lends itself to evaluating the political, social, and economic aspects of adoption of the OSS approach.
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- FCC Speaks on DTV Transition
FCC Southeast Regional Director, Patrick Webre, will visit Georgia Tech on Monday, January 12, 2009, 12:30am - 2:00pm as part of the nationwide effort to inform consumers about the Digital Television Transition. FCC staffers and community leaders will be on hand to answer questions and provide informational materials. Venue is located at the GTRI Bldg., 250 14th St., NW, Atlanta, GA 30318. All are welcome; no registration required. For additional information please e-mail Jackie.Herndon@cacp.gatech.edu, or call (404) 385-4612.
- Policy Change and the Accommodating Workplace: Issues, Barriers and Opportunities
Paul M.A. Baker presented a paper “Policy Change and the Accommodating Workplace: Issues, Barriers and Opportunities (Paul M.A. Baker and Nathan Moon) at the International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence (ICADI) in St. Petersburg, Florida, February 22nd. ICADI focuses on approaches to enhance the ability of the aging to maintain independence in daily living at home, at work and in the community. These issues were addressed in seven ICADI tracks by an international cadre of presenters representing research and development, policy, practice and services, business, and consumer perspectives.
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- "CACP graduate student Taylor Narewski honored with an ACC Student Athlete Award”
On April 16th 2008 the CACP’s Taylor Narewski was honored along with forty other Atlantic Coast Conference student athletes at a luncheon in Greensboro, North Carolina. Narewski and the other student athletes were awarded Weaver-James-Corrigan and Jim and Pat Thacker postgraduate scholarships. Each recipient of the scholarship will receive $5,000 to use towards graduate education. These scholarships are awarded to student athletes that “have performed with distinction in both the classroom and in their respective sports, while demonstrating exemplary conduct in the community (ACC Press Release).” While competing in the 400 meters with the Georgia Tech Men’s Track Team for Coach Grover Hinsdale as both an undergraduate and now as a graduate student, Taylor has chaired the Honor Advisory Council, been a member of the Student Athlete Advisory Board, and represented Georgia Tech at the ACC Student Athlete Advisory Committee. Taylor has also been involved in the community as an Atlanta Community Food Bank volunteer, a Volunteer Usher at the Fox Theatre, and a 4th grade Sunday School teacher at his local church. Taylor joined the CACP last summer as a graduate research assistant and has worked with Dr. James White and Dr. Paul Baker on a municipal outsourcing study.
- CACP at the University of Cambridge International Conference
Drs. Helena Mitchell and Paul M.A. Baker, attended CWUAAT 2008: 4th Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 13th Apr 2008 - 16th Apr 2008. Dr. Mitchell presented a poster titled Universal Access to Next Generation Emergency Alerting: Reaching People with Disabilities. The corresponding short paper was published in the conference proceedings. Dr. Mitchell also chaired the session “Computer Access and New Technologies.” Dr. Baker presented the paper, Reducing Access Barriers to Wireless Technologies for People with Disabilities: Issues, Opportunities and Policy Options, Baker, Paul M.A. and Nathan Moon. The paper appears as a book chapter in: Designing Inclusive Futures, Langdon P, Clarkson J, Robinson P (eds.) Springer-Verlag, London, UK 2008.
View Doc Access Barriers to Wireless Technologies [Word]
View Doc Chapter 12 - Helena Mitchell [PDF]
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View Poster CWUAAT poster [Powerpoint]
- Private Sector Telework and Implications for Economic Development
Enterprise Innovation institure and School of Public Policy Science,
Technology & Innovation Policy (STIP) Program