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Todd M. La Porte
Research Associate Professor tlaporte@gmu.edu Todd M. La Porte is an associate professor at George Mason University. He was a member of the permanent staff of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands from 1996 to 1998. Previously, La Porte served for six years as an analyst in the information technology and the international security programs at the Office of Technology Assessment, a research office of the U.S. Congress. His work at OTA focused on the role of wireless telecommunications and the National Information Infrastructure, international trade in telecommunications services and U.S. policy, and international defense industrial cooperation and the arms trade. His current research interests are in electronic governance and the use and impacts of information technologies in the public sector, both domestically and at the international level. He is a founding member of the Cyberspace Policy Research Group (http://www.cyprg.arizona.edu), which was established under a National Science Foundation grant in 1997. In addition, he has published work in public organizational challenges of the Web in disaster assistance, on European technology assessment methodologies and practices, and on the social implications of telecommunications mobility. La Porte teaches international Internet public policy, and technologies and organizations and politics. La Porte received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 1989, with concentrations in the policy sciences and public administration, comparative politics, and European politics. His undergraduate degree in sociology and political science is from Swarthmore College. |
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