Résumé
Name: John B. Rose
Nationality: France, U.S.A.
Age: 69
Education: Ph.D., Chemistry, California Institute of Technology.
Professional experience
Dr. Rose was a staff member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris from 1974 to 2004. At UNESCO he managed projects of interest to development in the areas of scientific research and higher education, scientific and technical information, and the application of information and communication technology (ICT). In the latter area he was responsible for activities involving ICT in education, community access and empowerment, digital libraries, and policy for universal access to networks and essential information resources. In 2004-2005 he held a temporary appointment as Sarada Ranganathan Professor, Department of Information Science, University of Madras where he taught courses on information society issues and digital libraries.
Dr. Rose is now Honorary Research Associate at the University of Waikato (New Zealand), responsible for coordinating efforts to improve user services to, and user participation in, the Greenstone Digital Library software in developing countries, notably through the development of cooperative Greenstone support initiatives in South Asia, Southern Africa and Latin America. He is also President of a French NGO, COMETE International, which is working in the area of ICT for development, mainly on community telecentre projects in French-speaking Africa.