Date: April-June 1999

Location: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Description: The Fulbright-LASPAU IT-SUL Seminar aimed to provide university leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean with the tools and theoretical framework for using information and communications technologies on behalf of their institutions and societies.

Through instruction, collaboration, case study, discussion, and debate -- both online and during three days at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts -- the participants in the Fulbright-LASPAU IT-SUL Seminar worked to develop a theoretical framework and the tools necessary to address the technology challenges that they and their universities will face when they return to their home countries.

The seminar had both an online component consisting of eight one-week modules in April and May 1999, and an in-person component held at Harvard University from June 13 – 16, 1999. The seminar participants were faculty members and researchers from universities in Latin America and the Caribbean who were pursuing advanced degrees at U.S. universities under the sponsorship of the United States Department of State Fulbright-LASPAU Faculty Development Program. 

Sponsor: The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State

Host Institution: John F. Kennedy School of Goverment, Harvard University

Facilitators: Jeff Brown (Staff, LASPAU), Winthrop Carty (Faculty, LASPAU), Jerry Mechling (Faculty, Kennedy School of Government), Carolyn Morse (Staff, LASPAU) María Saenz (Faculty, Fundación Acceso), and Debra Shetler (Sponsor, United States Department of State)