Newman, David

is a lecturer in Information Systems, in the Queen's School of Management and Economics, researching community informatics and electronic democracy. Together with Prof. John Morison, of the Queen's School of Law, he set up the electronic consultation study group that has been meeting at Queen's University since Sept. 2000; the group that put together this workshop. Dr. Newman previously worked in Mauritius, Mozambique and Kenya, on Appropriate Technologies for the Third World, but for some years now he has been working on Appropriate Internet Technologies in the safer town of Belfast. http://www.qub.ac.uk/mgt/staff/dave/