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Nationality:

Swedish

Languages:

Fluent Swedish and English.
Some knowledge of French, German, Finnish and Thai.

Expertise:

ICT for Development: organizational and national strategy formulation; policy analysis and advice; project evaluation; needs assessment.

Academic Experience

1995-2001

Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
Doctoral dissertation: Transnational.Dynamics@Development.Net. Internet, Modernization and Globalization.
Thesis supervisor: Professor Ulf Hannerz

1993-1994

MA in Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
MA thesis: Responses to Revolutionary Change: A Study of Social Memory in a Khmer Village. Thesis supervisor: Mark Graham, M.Phil.

1986-1994

BA in Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
Degree included courses in English, Comparative Religion and Economic History. BA thesis: One People, One Nation, One Singapore: The Building of a Nation.  Thesis supervisor: Mark Graham, M.Phil.

1980-1983

High School diploma, Jakobsbergskolan.
Business economics, marketing and languages.

Professional Experience

2003

ICT for Development Consultant/Conference Manager for Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)/ICT4D Platform at World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Geneva 9-13 December 2003

2002-2003

ICT for Development Consultant for Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Department for Democracy and Social Development (DESO), Stockholm

2001

Multimedia Moderator for International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Telecom Africa 2001, Johannesburg

2001

Internet Resource Expert for Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Minority Rights, Geneva

2000

Multimedia Moderator for International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Telecom Asia 2000, Hong Kong

2000

Evaluator for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York, for Information Technologies for Development Programme

1997-1998

Research Fellow for United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva, for research program on Information Technologies and Social Development

1995-1997

Research Assistant/Project Officer for United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva, for the War-torn Societies Project

1994

Consultant for Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Stockholm

1992-1994

Shop Manageress for Svenska Pressbyrån AB, Stockholm

1989-1990

English Teacher for Eternal Life Christian College, Taipei.

Publications & Presentations

Digital Empowerment-A Strategy for ICT for Development (ICT4D) for DESO. Stockholm: Sida/DESO, December 2003.

Digital Empowerment-Guidelines to the DESO Strategy for ICT for Development (ICT4D). Stockholm: Sida/DESO, December 2003.

“Networking as a Form of Life: The Transnational Movement of Internet Pioneers”, in New Technologies at Work: People, Screens and Social Virtuality, C. Garsten and H. Wulff (eds), Oxford: Berg, 2003.

“Mediated Management of Meaning: On-line Nation Building in Malaysia”, in Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, special issue on Globalization, Creolization, and Cultural Complexity: Essays in Honour of Ulf Hannerz. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, Vol. 3, No. 3, July 2003.

“Networks of Global Interaction”, in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Volume 16, Number 2, pp. 273-286, July 2003.

“The Internet and Globalization”, in Pacific Telecommunications Review, Volume 23, Number 3, 2002.

Transnational.Dynamics@Development.Net. Internet, Modernization and Globalization. Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, 49. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2001.

“Defying Statistics: Public Internet”, in Communications Guide, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), 2001.

Networked Nomads: Internet and Tourism in Southeast Asia. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Internet Society, INET 01, Stockholm 4-8 June 2001.

“Networking for Democracy: The Internet and the Developing World”, in The Namibian 15^th Anniversary Commemorative Magazine, August 2000.

Transnational Networks of Knowledge: Reconfiguring Power in the Global Village, speech delivered at the Developing Countries Networking Symposium at the annual conference of the Internet Society, INET 2000, Yokohama, 18 July 2000.

Internet and Human Rights, speech delivered at Geneva 2000, special session on Internet and Social Development, Geneva, 28 June 2000.

Evaluation of the UNDP/BDP Information Technologies for Development Programme (ITDP). New York: UNDP, April 2000.

“Net Cafe society puts Laos on-line”, in The Age, Melbourne, 7 March 2000.

“Networking for Democracy: The Internet and the Free Flow of Information”, in Deutschland, February/March 2000.

“The answer is flowing in the wire”, in The Age, Melbourne, 9 November 1999. (article based on speech delivered at Telecom 99)

Internet, Democracy and Governance: A Historical Background, speech delivered at World Internet Days at Telecom 99, organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Geneva, 9-17 October 1999.

Connecting Laos: Notes from the Peripheries of Cyberspace, paper presented at the annual conference of the Internet Society, INET 99, San Jose, California, 22-25 June 1999.

"Transnational Networks of Internet Pioneers. A Study of Technology, Modernity and Globalization", in Antropologiska Studier, special issue on culture and technology, January 1999.

Cyberanthropology: The Global Expansion of the Internet, paper presented in Congreso Virtual de Antropologia y Arqueologia, organized by the National Institute of Anthropology, Buenos Aires, October 1998.

Inter-national and Intra-national Boundaries in Cyberspace, paper presented at the 5th biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Frankfurt am Main, 4-7 September 1998.

Cultural Encounters in Cyberspace, paper presented in a virtual conference organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on Internet in Asia: Cultural Diversity, Cyberspace, March 1998.

"Addressing the Information Gap", in OnTheInternet, November 1997, pp. 22-23.

Assessing the Social Needs of the Digital Future, paper published in the proceedings of  TELECOM Inter@ctive, International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, 8-14 September, 1997.

Internet as a Tool for Social Development, paper presented at the annual conference of the Internet Society, INET 97,  in Kuala Lumpur, 24-27 June 1997.

"Responses to Revolutionary Change. A Study of Social Memory in a Khmer Village", in Folk, Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society, Vol. 38, 1997, pp. 31-52.

After the Conflict: A Review of Selected Sources on Rebuilding War-torn Societies, by Patricia Weiss Fagen, with the assistance of Paula Uimonen, Geneva: War-torn Societies Project, UNRISD/PSIS, Occasional Paper 1, November 1995.

Byliv i Kambodja (Village Life in Cambodia), report prepared for Sida, 1994.

One People, One Nation, One Singapore: The Building of a Nation, Stockholm University, 1992. (BA thesis) 

Ethnographic Fieldwork and Field Experience

October 2002, Tanzania
Study tour to Dar es Salaam, Bagamoyo and Zanzibar to assess ICT for Development needs in projects and programs supported by Sida/DESO. Data gathering through meetings and interviews with Sida/DESO staff and local development partners. Interviews with people involved in the formulation of a national ICT policy, including government representatives and members of the country’s eThinkTank. Assessment of public Internet access through informal interviews and observation in Internet cafés in Dar es Salaam.

1997-2001, Geneva, Southeast Asia and Cyberspace
Multi-sited fieldwork among professionals involved in developing and promoting access to the Internet in developing countries. The research aims to elucidate the social dynamics of Internet development in the context of accelerated globalization. The data gathering process relies on a combination of qualitative, quantitative and electronic research methods.

February-May 1994, Cambodia
Ten weeks of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Cambodia, as part of research for MA thesis. The focus of the investigation was on how Khmer villagers remembered and interpreted the Pol Pot and Hun Sen regimes, thus analyzing the recent history of the country (1975-1989) from a sociocultural perspective.

December-January 1991/92, Singapore
Four weeks of field research for BA thesis. The material was used in a thesis on nation-building, emphasizing the political measures adopted to promote a national identity in a multiethnic social context.

July-August 1988, February-May 1989, Philippines
Exposure program of five months length arranged through Swedish and local NGOs. Contacts with local NGOs were combined with visits to project areas for the assessment of local socioeconomic conditions and support needs.

November 1983-December 1996, Asia
Repeated independent travels and residence in various Asian countries, notably in Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, China and India, totaling four years. These travels have been combined with studies of local conditions, language training and cultural adaptation.

Personal Interests and Hobbies

Scuba diving, rock climbing, skiing, hiking, travelling, reading, movies.