Ethan Zuckerman was a co-founder of Tripod.com, a web hosting enterprise, and later founder of Geekcorps[1]. Tripodcom is a Web hosting service now owned by Lycos. Originally a company aimed at offering services to college students and young adults it was one of several Geekcorps is a Non-profit organization that sends people with technical skills to developing countries to assist in Computer Infrastructure development He currently serves as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a research center founded at Harvard Law School that focuses on the legal study of Cyberspace. His work at the Berkman Center has included research into global media attention, and the co-founding of Global Voices Online in collaboration with Rebecca MacKinnon. Global Voices Online is an international network of Bloggers that summarizes what is going on in the blogosphere in every corner of the world Rebecca MacKinnon (born September 16, 1969) is a former CNN Journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo before For some years he was also a contributing writer for Worldchanging.com, where he served as president of the board of directors. Worldchanging is an American non-profit online magazine and Blog about Sustainability and Social innovation.
In January 2007, he joined the inaugural Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board. The Wikimedia Foundation Inc is a Non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States,
He is a graduate of Williams College, spent a year in Accra, Ghana on a Fulbright scholarship, and currently resides in Lanesborough, Massachusetts with his wife Rachel Barenblat. Williams College is a highly selective private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Accra is the capital, and most populous city of Ghana. The city also doubles as the capital of the Greater The Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa. It borders Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast to the west Burkina Faso to the north Togo to the The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of grants for international educational exchange for scholars educators graduate "Lanesborough" redirects here There are also several places named Lanesboro.
References
- ^ Biography, Berkman Center for Internet & Society (url accessed 22 April 2006)
External links
- My Heart's in Accra (Ethan Zuckerman's blog)
- Interview with Zuckerman on Worldchanging.com
- Bio - Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Global Voices Online