Dr Howard H Frederick

Biography for Howard Frederick

Since I joined Council I have struggled to gain members' recognition and the Society's support for one of our most important goals - to conduct education and research on the Internet. I define this as helping our community and the general public come to grips with the knowledge economy and to overcome the effects of the digital divide. The Social Impact Committee, which I have chaired, has made modest progress toward those goals. We organised Waitakere City's Economic Development Summit in April as well as the Tauranga Tech Expo in June, where the Society's name and goals are now on the minds of citizens and leadership. We need to repeat these successes throughout the country. The Social Impact Committee's problem is that our activities usually end up being marginalised at the end of a Council agenda filled with technical and other contentious issues. I need your help to turn that situation around. I want you to elect me and the other candidates who share my goals to turn the Society toward positive action on the economic, social and cultural aspects of Internet and Society, especially for Maori.

About myself. I'm an American-New Zealander who has applied for New Zealand citizenship. I'm a Stanford grad with broad European and Latin American experience and am the author of New Zealand's Knowledge Economy report (1999) (www.knowledge.gen.nz) and the soon-to-be-published GEM 2001 Study of Entrepreneurship in New Zealand. I am currently New Zealand's only Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, based at the UNITEC Faculty of Business in Auckland, where I help run a technology incubator and a masters degree in entrepreneurship. I live in Auckland with my wife and daughter. My motto is: "Doey more than hui".

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