Important Contacts
Director of Research
phone: 404.385.4618
Associate Director of International Programs
phone: 404.385.4613
The ICT Research Roundtable is a focal point for policy research on information and communication and the technology that facilitates them. The ICT Research Roundtable conducts, synthesizes and disseminates multi-disciplinary research, sponsors forums and speakers, and provides objective analysis for current policy debates. Participating units in the ICT Research Roundtable include the Center for Advanced Communications Policy (www.cacp.gatech.edu), the Internet and Public Policy Project (www.IP3.gatech.edu)
The ICT Research Roundtable is a focal point at Georgia Tech for policy research on information and communication policy and the technology that facilitates them.
The 2008-2009 speaker series features faculty and researchers from across campus presenting their academic work.
Previous ICT Research Roundtable Speaker Series Presenters include:
In particular, We discussed our efforts to develop technology platforms and participatory design activities that prompt critical engagements between people, technology and the environment, and enable the production of rhetorically compelling expressions of local concerns by residents. The ICT Research Roundtable is a focal point at Georgia Tech for policy research on information and communication policy and the technology that facilitates them. The 2008-2009 speaker series features faculty and researchers from across campus presenting their academic work.
Dr. James White, Center for Advanced Communications Policy - "Outsourcing Local Government Services: Does It Work?"
Monday, November 9, 2009. Following its establishment at the end of 2005, the city of Sandy Springs, Georgia, has quickly come to typify the concept of comprehensive municipal service outsourcing. In an attempt to measure both the economic and social efficacy of the concept, an original comparison between five contract cities and five traditional municipalities was completed in May, 2009, offering a view of the relative merits and demerits of outsourcing. This talk outlined the major findings of the research.
Prof. Carl DiSalvo School of Literature, Communication, and Culture - “The Neighborhood Networks Project: Participatory Design with Emerging Technologies In a Neighborhood Context” Thursday, Oct. 16 Noon
One of the central questions that motivates my research is "How can we enable new forms of political action and expression through computational media?" In this informal talk we presented an overview of the past 2 years of the Neighborhood Networks project, which uses community arts and participatory design to provide opportunities for the creative exploration and application of sensing and robotics technologies to neighborhood issues.
In Fall 2007 the ICT Study Group held a series of brown bag talks introducing the diverse work of the group. The topics included “Sandy Springs and Dunwoody: New Models for Citizen Communications?”; “Accessibility in Municipal Wireless Networks: System Implementation and Policy Considerations”; "Legitimacy and Global Public Policy: The Case of the Internet"; and”The FCC vs. the Industry: managing public safety emergency communications and commercial wireless broadband deployment."