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Pressing Questions of the Information Age: 11 March 2003
A Computer Lab in the 'Bush': Linking Up Indigenous Tanzanian Culture to Bridge the Digital Divide
Tanya Pergola
Founding Co-Director of Terrawatu
A lawyer by training, Dr. Ang teaches and researches media law and policy with a special focus on the internet. He has consulted for government and private bodies in Singapore, as well as international agencies such as the United Nations Development Program regarding internet law and policy issues. In 2000, he was awarded a Fulbright fellowship for which he spent a semester as a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In 2001, he was a visiting scholar at Oxford University. Since 1999, he has been involved with the Bertelsmann Foundation in a series of projects looking at Internet self-regulation, self-rating and filtering. He is currently a member of both the main board and advisory council of the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA), which is working to create an internationally-accepted seal of self-rating and which launched officially on March 21, 2002.
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