Hernan Galperin (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California (USA) and Research Associate at the Universidad de San Andres (Argentina). Dr. Galperin is also affiliated with the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (UK) and the Edelstein Center for Social Research (Brazil). His research and teaching focus on the international governance and impact of new information and communication technologies. Currently, Dr. Galperin is involved in a number of research projects related to the development impact and poverty alleviation potential of new information and communication technologies in Latin America, funded by a variety of foundations and international organizations. He has published extensively in major journals such as Telecommunications Policy, The Information Society and the Journal of Communication. His most recent edited book,
Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives, was published by Practical Action Publishing in 2007.
To find out more about Hernan Galperin, please visit
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~hernang/.