Nice job, Dons! We made the list of Top 10 universities nationwide for Fulbright Scholars in 2009-10. The occasion provided USF with another excuse to post a stunning JP Allen photo on the newly designed website.
My upcoming faculty exchange to the Azores starts in April.
I was able to visit two more fascinating universities on the Allen World Tour: the Department of Information Systems in the Faculty of Commerce, University of Cape Town (UCT); and the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics at the School of Information Technology, Monash University.
At UCT, not only was I able to meet with some of Mark Shuttleworth’s professors, but also ran a session of their Master’s degree seminar. Most of the student projects were focused on adoption issues in South Africa. I hope to do some future work with their team on open source adoption.
At Monash, I spent a month as a visiting researcher. I was interested to learn that the organizational and social informatics group was not only going strong, but in fact had healthier student numbers than any other area of the IT school. Their group was strong in health care, government, and community informatics.
For most of June, I was a visiting researcher in the Informatics division of the Swedish Business School, Örebro University. Thanks to the group’s rigorous, precise daily schedule of lunch times and coffee breaks (fika), I had the structure I needed to be productive!
I gave a talk on my open source deployment research in San Francisco (talk title: “Open Source Deployment at the City and County of San Francisco: From Cost Reduction to Rapid Innovation”). Open Source (or öppen kod, as they say) attracted good interest, particularly with the eGovernment angle. I also served as an external examiner on Ella Kolkowska‘s licentiate thesis, which focused on a values-based approach to IS security. As Örebro, along with many other European universities, makes the transition to a more American-style system of rewards based on publications, strategies for cracking the right journals were another hot topic.
I’ll miss having the intellectual stimulation of Karin, Ella, Fredrik, Johan P, Johan A, Kai, Nena, Hannu, and the entire group on the rest of our sabbatical world tour. Thanks Örebro!
The sabbatical year plans are coming along nicely. You can follow the latest updates on our Allen World Tour 2009-10 Itinerary page.
So far, I have four official university visits lined up:
I’m hoping to visit other Universities for seminars, long lunches, walks on the beach, etc. If you’re interested in having me visit, or give a talk, check out my slightly cheesy looking brochure with a list of research interests and potential seminar topics.
It’s official. I’ve been named a Fulbright scholar during my 2009-10 sabbatical year. The host country will be Portugal, specifically the Azores islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
At the University of the Azores, I will be a visiting lecturer in Innovation and Technology Management. I’ll be teaching an MBA class during their third term (April-June 2010), meeting with students, and consulting on curriculum.
The Fulbright scholars program is the “flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government”, sending about 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. To fulfill my mission of “increasing mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries”, I am prepared to eat do whatever it takes to promote international harmony.
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