Dr. Derrick Cogburn

Scientific Committee Member
Syracuse, NY USA
dcogburn[at]syr.edu

Derrick L. Cogburn is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University. He is also senior research associate at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Since 1999 he has directed the award-winning Collaboratory on Technology Enhanced Learning Communities (Cotelco), a social science research lab investigating the social and technical factors that influence geographically distributed collaborative knowledge work, particularly between developed and developing countries.

Cogburn's research focuses on exploring the socio-technical infrastructure required to enhance the participation of developing countries and civil society organizations in global governance processes in information and communication policy. The Cotelco lab is working with selected organizations to build "policy collaboratories" using a suite of web-based collaboration tools and carefully elaborated social practices which allows the members of a transnational policy network, geographically distributed over multiple countries around the world, to work as if they were located in the same physical place.

Professor Cogburn received his Ph.D. in political science (International Relations, Political Economy, and Comparative Politics) from Howard University in 1996 where he was a W.K. Kellogg doctoral fellow at the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center.