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1. 1. ICASIT's KMCentral: About Us

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   In the summer of 2001, Dr. Stephen Ruth and the ICASIT team recognized the growing importance of this resource, and decided to expand the KM offerings and add new services.
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   Dr. Stephen Ruth, Director, ICASITStephen Ruth is Professor of Public Policy and Technology Management in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, and Director of the International Center for Applied Studies in Information Technology (ICASIT).His research interests are focused on the problems of strategic planning associated with leveraging the use of Information Technology in large organizations, with particular emphasis on the effect of Knowledge Management policies on the work of dispersed teams.Ruth's consultancies include National Archives and Records Administration, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, American Management Systems, Inc., Carolina Population Center at University of North Carolina, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Ateneo S.A.(Argentina), National Training Laboratories, The World Bank, Soros Foundations, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, United Nations Development Programme, Navy War College, General Services Administration, Fairfax County (Virginia), and others.
   
   As director of ICASIT, Professor Ruth has received grant and contract awards totaling over $6 million and recently served as Associate Director of the Commonwealth of Virginia's $2 million Internet Technology Innovation Center (ITIC)project, which links Virginia's university research centers to the high tech businesses in the state.His international IT projects cover thirty sites in Africa, Asia, South America and Eastern Europe.He has been Chair, Technical Committee on Personal Computing, IEEE Computer Society, and was elected to a three year term to the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) Council of Affiliates for International Programs.He has also served as Vice President of the American Society for Cybernetics and on he Board of Advisors for the Czech Management Center, an MBA-granting school near Prague affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh.Ruth served for ten years as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Association for Computing Machinery and was selected for two senior Fulbright lectureships, both in Argentina.He has received a Distinguished Professor award at George Mason University, and was a Virginia Outstanding Professor honoree, with a prize of $5,000.
   
   Dr. Ruth received his BS from the U.S. Naval Academy and MS from the Navy Postgraduate School, and served twenty-three years in the Navy, retiring with the rank of Captain.His PhD is from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.He is author or co-author of over one hundred published articles and four books.

2. 2. www.icasit.org

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   Dr. Stephen Ruth
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   Stephen R. Ruth, Professor of Public Policy and Director, International Center for Applied Studies in Information Technology (ICASIT)

3. 3. ICASIT: News

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   Aware of this plight and presented with a hopeful solution, Dr. Steve Ruth, director of Mason's International Center for Applied Studies in Information Technology (ICASIT), earmarked $30,000 from a foundation grant to help the American University in Cairo train refugee interpreters through its Cairo Community Interpreters Program (CCIP)."ICASIT is interested in finding ways to use technology for good purposes," said Ruth, adding that the Cairo program is helping to empower people who have lost everything.
   
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   ICASIT Study on Knowledge Management Diffusion in University CurriculaICASIT director Stephen Ruth and two colleagues recently completed a study of Knowledge Management diffusion in the context of university programs world-wide.The report, titled "Knowledge Management Education: An Overview of Programs of Instruction" was co-authored by Virgil Frizzel and Nancy Shaw and appeared in Handbook on Knowledge Management, edited by :Clyde W. Holsapple. (New York, Springer-Verlag, 2003) . Professor Ruth was surprised at the results, which indicated that most KM programs are not at universities.
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   Says Ruth, "many colleges and universities have a course here and there, but the primary source of KM learning is through programs offered by businesses."He added, "locally GMU is unique since the School of Public Policy offers both a MS program that features major KM components and an increasing number of PhD students who are interested in KM applications.
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   ICASIT director Steve Ruth thinks that the data base opens up new opportunities for students: "I did a quick check comparing the technology indicators for Middle East countries and found out that United Arab Emirates and Israel, with about three percent of the population, lead in many technology variables", says Ruth, "and that kind of result is easy to obtain from this new resource."Ruth added, "ICASIT DB 2007 has many user-friendly features like binary codes for oil-producing, predominantly Muslim, MENA and others which assist in spread-sheet use.
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   Professor Steve Ruth presented a new graduate course in the School of Public Policy," ITRN 710.9 Islam and the Internet: Telecommunications and Technology in the Muslim World" The course was open to grad students from many disciplines."It's a very interesting body of knowledge", says Ruth, who assembled a broad range of materials plus guest speakers with regional and technical competence.
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   The course, managed by ICASIT and taught by Professor Steve Ruth, was done completely online with assignments and exercises submitted and reviewed through Internet-based resources.
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   "What's especially nice about this is that many of these sites we are compared with have full-time staffs to manage the content," says Stephen Ruth, director of ICASIT.
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   ICASIT director Professor Steve Ruth has been named to the Institute's Board of Governors in recognition of GMU's major role in Knowledge Management in the DC region.
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   Previously called the GW Forecast, the service is being renamed "TechCast" and will be jointly managed by Halal and Ruth.
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   Ruth and Halal expect to launch Techcast in spring.
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   ICASIT's director, Professor Steve Ruth, met recently with Drs.
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   "We developed a good understanding", says Ruth, "and I'm sure that after I visit the sites in January, it will be possible to set up several connectivity projects linking Havana U. with Princeton's demography center.
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   Stephen Ruth, ICASIT director, and Dr. Ted Tschudy, a Human Behavior consultant, delivered a series of seminars on management of dispersed teams at the World Conference on Systemic Management, held May 1-6 in Vienna.
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   Ruth also presented a paper, called "Teamwork in Cyberspace" at the conference.Ruth and Tschudy coauthored a paper on this subject, "Exploring the Middle Ground: A Course on Teaming in Cyberspace".
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   ICASIT manager Professor Steve Ruth, and George Washington University Professor William Halal recently announced a partnership whereby ICASIT and GW Business School will jointly enhance GW's widely known technology forecast.
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   The funding also made it possible for the center's UNESCO Unitwin Network on Forced Migration to have sorely needed Internet connectivity, says Stephen Ruth, director of ICASIT and professor in the School of Public Policy.
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   Professor Steve Ruth, ICASIT director, provided business-oriented curriculum recommendations and David Melia, ICASIT manager, set up a web site making it possible for researchers to examine the committee's results.
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   "It's the first project for ICASIT in that region and we learned a lot", says Ruth."It was possible to start with a clean slate; there were no initial curriculum design constraints--I particularly enjoyed working with CS professors and examining how they approach advanced delivery methods for some very complicated material."Melia's web site for the project is athttp://cne.gmu.edu/pjd/UAE/.
   
   ICASIT Delivers New Cost Model For Evaluating Results Of University-Based Distance LearningJanuary 11, 2001Dr. Steve Ruth, ICASIT director, announced the completion of a two year effort aimed at developing a replicable model that can be used at any US university to deliver an accurate assessment of the costs of distance learning.Developed under a $400,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the "GMU Model" uses data available in a university's normal accounting system to compare DL with traditional delivery approaches.To validate the model, Ruth and his team set up seven college courses offered in the Commonwealth of Virginia and evaluated the results in DL and traditional settings.Dr. John Milam, of the University of Virginia, who was responsible for the model's design and integration, and Dr. Ruth presented the results at a meeting of the Mellon Foundation's board on November 8th, 2000, at Columbia University.
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   "John Milam has presented the GMU model at many meetings around the country, and to GMU senior administrators--all very serious audiences--and they agree that this is an important methodology", says Ruth.
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   The GMU model is now included in the Flashlight Cost Handbook, used at most US universities, so Ruth and Milam are hoping to extend their results to regional clusters of universities, possibly in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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   The center's latest grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, for $600,000 over the next three and a half years, brings ICASIT's total funding from the foundation to more than $2.6 million, according to Stephen Ruth, director of the center and a professor in the School of Public Policy.
   
   With this grant, ICASIT adds five new countries--Jordan, Vietnam, Guatemala, Cuba, and Ethiopia--to its roster of more than 20 developing nations across the world that benefit from its international connectivity projects.The new funding extends ICASIT's efforts to spread Internet connectivity to organizations that are central to the Mellon Foundation's programs in population and forced migration.Other Mellon-funded efforts include solution-based studies of Internet linkages for technology centers in developing nations; return-on-investment studies of university-based distance learning; and international connectivity studies and implementation for centers in Africa, South America, and Asia.
   
   "The human and technology-related variables surrounding Internet deployment in developing nations are a rich source of research opportunities," says Ruth.A study ICASIT recently completed in Romania showed significant differences in outcomes, differentiated by gender, academic orientation, age, and other variables.A similar study is underway in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Kampala, Uganda."This is vital information in planning for the diffusion of Internet technology in a developing nation," says Ruth.
   
   ICASIT's contributions have not gone unnoticed.Earlier this year the Center for Forced Migration Studies, an African organization supported by Oxford University, named ICASIT assistance as the most important factor in the improvement of its ability to do refugee studies."Several members of the UNESCO Forced Migration Network have benefited from Stephen Ruth's help with electronic connectivity," says David Turton, director of the center.
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   "Our mission is to deliver the power of the Internet to businesses, underserved markets, and countries of the developing world," says Ruth."ICASIT helps organizations worldwide leverage their investments in information technology by proposing and delivering specific projects on everything from connectivity in developing countries to teaching organizations knowledge management processes."
   
   New Office and School for ICASITAugust 21, 2000ICASIT has become one of the affiliated centers in George Mason 's School of Public Policy (SPP) with offices on the second floor of t