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Lev Gonick
Vice President of Information Technology Services and Chief
Information Officer
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
“From Digital Campus to Connected
Community”
Most great universities reside within a broader
city ecosystem. The long-term well being of our universities
is dependent on the health of the cities within which they reside.
How can campus technologists provide university and civic
leadership the means to meet the goals of good neighbors,
contributing to the vitality of the inner city? OneCleveland
now known as OneCommunity has been informed by a mission to be
a big, bold 21st Century community-oriented project that delivers
advanced information technology capabilities to achieve community
priorities for economic development, learning, job training,
research support, preeminence, and distinction. Today, OneCommunity
connects 15 counties in NEOhio, 17 healthcare systems, more than
300 public schools, dozens of libraries, museums, and all of higher
education institutions both in our urban centers and rural
communities. Case’s wireless mesh project is a layered
service on top of the OneCommunity network and extends to five
sq miles around university circle. In collaboration with other
OneCommunity partners, wireless services are being architected
and deployed across the region.
Lev Gonick has been teaching, working,
and living on the Net since 1987.
Today, Lev Gonick is Vice President for Information Technology
Services and Chief Information Officer at Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland, Ohio. Case is one of the nation’s
leading independent research universities. Case’s technology
infrastructure and reputation for innovation and cutting-edge
applications is recognized across the country and around the
world. This turn around effort since 2001 has been recognized
by peers and has led to numerous presentations and consultations
on IT Governance, new forms of IT leadership (open-source
leadership) and strategic technology investing addressing
community priorities. Case has been ranked number #1 in the
nation among private, independent universities for wireless
technology deployments. Today, all data, voice and video services
at Case run over its IP network. Gonick is chair of the CIO
Executive Council’s higher education committee. He is also
President of the Board of OneCleveland, the award-winning
metropolitan-wide project to create a connected community
through high speed wired and wireless network connectivity
addressing community priorities in Northeast Ohio. Gonick
also serves as President of the Board of the New Media Consortium
based in Austin Texas. In 2006 Gonick has been recognized by
ComputerWorld as a Premier100 IT leader and by CIO
magazine’s CIO100 group. He also sits on the Board of
the National Lambda Rail (NLR), the nation’s next
generation advanced networking research effort.
Previously, Lev Gonick served as Chief Information Technology
Officer for Cal State Monterey Bay (CSUMB). CSUMB is the Cal
State’s “Bullets to Books to Bytes” campus
built on former Fort Ord as the Cal State’s first 21st
century campus. From 1996 through 1999 Gonick was University
Dean for Instructional Technology and Academic Computing at
Cal State Polytechnic University in Pomona.
Gonick’s national reputation includes a series of major
duties and responsibilities related to technology integration
in education. Among his board services and consultations:
- New Media Consortium, President of the Board
- Museum of Contemporary Art — Cleveland, Board
Member
- Northeast Ohio Software Association, Board Member
- Adobe Higher Education Advisory Committee
- Dell Platinum Council Member
- Bellefaire Jewish Children’s Bureau, Board Member
- Ohio-Israel Chamber of Commerce Technology Chair
- Internet Streaming Media Association Content Management
Advisory Group
- Internet 2, InCommon Executive Committee
- National Lambda Rail, Board Member
- Consultations to more than 40 Universities and Colleges
across the U.S. & Canada
Gonick’s international efforts in
education and technology are extensive and date back to
1985.
He has consulted and lectured at nine universities in Australia,
five universities in Japan, four in South Africa, and spoken to
audiences in England, Sweden, Germany, Israel, India, Cote
d‘Ivoire, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Cuba, Mexico, and Botswana
and across the United States and Canada. Sixteen years ago Gonick
supported the development of HealthNet and Mango, one of Southern
Africa’s first internet nodes in facilitating connectivity
between healthcare professionals and NGOs in the field in Southern
Africa. He has been involved in designing and implementing Digital
Learning Network project in West African countries and another
Multimedia Learning Network initiative called Seeds of Peace in
Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Palestine.
Lev received his PhD in International Political Economy from York
University in Ontario Canada. He is married to Barbara
Weltman-Gonick. They have two children and live in Beachwood,
Ohio.
Professor Gary Chapman
LBJ School of Public Affairs
University of Texas
“Community Wireless Around the
World”
In 2006 the Internet passed one billion
users, a significant milestone. The next billion
users are likely to be quite a different group than the
first billion. We can expect to see new users with lower
incomes, from areas with less communications infrastructure,
and representing an explosion of different languages online.
But the demand is already there — in emerging markets,
including in the most under-developed nations in the world,
growth in wireless communications is far outpacing the rest
of the world. Experts expect, for example, that 2007 will be
the first year in which the mobile phone industry will sell
a billion handsets in one year. The next step is Internet-based
community wireless solutions, which are also spreading around
the world. From Uganda to Laos, or from remote Patagonia to the
Arctic Circle, community wireless projects are transforming the
lives of people around the globe.
If you have any questions concerning this event, you can send email to
wccc07@dtc.umn.edu.
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