Arthur (Art) L. George Linda Gooden Kim Goodman Byron M. Green Rodney E. Harrigan
Senior Vice President President Vice President Vice President Vice Chancellor IT &
High Performance Analog Lockheed Martin Dell Inc. DaimlerChrysler Telecomms
Texas Instruments Information Technology Corporation North Carolina A&T
State University
Diarra also spent several years working looking at the application and use of tech- Everett developed the AfroGEEKS:
with non-governmental organizations nology in minority communities. In ad- Global Blackness Conferences in con-
concerned with African technological dition, through conferences, writings and junction with MIT, and has worked
development. He is vice president of the workshops, she has fostered exchanges with blacks and other minority groups
UN’s World Commission on the Ethics of between disparate minority groups – from in Africa, Europe and Australia on the
Scientific Knowledge and Technology, a the hip-hop practitioners to the engineers usage of technology for education and
member of the Independent Commission and academicians, and community organ- political empowerment. Her published
on Africa and the Millennium, and the izers – to learn of the uses of technologies analysis range from the use of the internet
High Level African Panel on Biotechnol- to further their goals. in developing the Million Woman March
ogy, which was created by the African to race and gender in issues in computer
Union and New Partnership for Africa’s “As a community,” Everett said, “we have games, to The Revolution will be Digi-
Development. to make this technology work for us in tized: Afrocentricity and the Digital Public
ways other technologies haven’t, since it is Sphere.
Diarra also serves as a United Nations so decentralized. That window of oppor-
Educational, Scientific and Cultural tunity, where we can employ technology “The assumption that spending time
Organization Goodwill Ambassador for to organize and educate and present our and resources in minority communities
Science, Technology and Enterprise, and as own images, is not going to be here for- is a waste because they are not capable
founder and president of the African Sum- ever, since the wave of media mergers will of using technology, is just not the case,”
mit on Science and New Technologies. clamp down on the freedom of the web. Everett said.
Anna Everett, Ph.D. It is a crucial moment for us in the mi- Rodney E. Harrigan
Professor and Chair nority community to harness the technol- Vice Chancellor for Information Technology
Department of Film and Media Studies ogy for our own needs. We have to stake and Telecommunications
University of California, Santa Barbara our claim for future generations, since North Carolina A&T State University
For the past two 15 years Anna Ever- nobody is going to do it for us.” North Carolina A&T State University has
ett has explored the nexus between the long been the nation’s leading producer
acquisition and deployment of technology The popular perception, said Everett, is of black engineers. It is Rodney Harrig-
in minority communities, and the public that blacks are on the wrong side of the an’s charge to ensure that their students
perception of role of minorities in the digital divide, are latecomers to technol- – from the Bachelor’s to doctoral level
expanding technological society. ogy, and uncomfortable with it. “That – have the most comprehensive IT infra-
ignores the fact that the Philadelphia structure at their disposal.
The work of Dr. Everett has set an Tribune and the Afro-American News-
intellectual framework for exploring the papers were online before the New York He is well suited for that task. Har-
significance of the “digital divide”, by Times,” she said. rigan, who received his B.S. degree in
David Harris William J. Harvey Wyllstyne D. Hill Kerrie L. Holley Milton Hunter, P.E.,
Senior Vice President VP General Manager VP & CIO Chief Technology Officer U.S. Army (Ret.)
Sun Microsystems Dupont Raytheon Company IBM Web Services Senior VP, Infrastructure
and Technology
Parsons Corporation
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