Doria, Avri
Providence, RI, Technical Consultant
Avri Doria earned a BA in Philosophy from the
University of Rhode Island, an MA in Philsophy with a concentration in cognitive
studies from the University of Chicago and an MA in Counseling Psychology from
Rhode Island College. She also read for an advanced research on intelligent
systems at the University of Chicago. She is currently
completing a Ph.D. in the Humanities, Social Science and Technology department
at Blekinge University of Technology in Sweden on Technopolitics and the
Internet. She tends to view the issues of technology, technology policy,
technology rights, technology responsibilities and the politics of technology as
interwoven and inseparable. From having lived within several cultures, she
brings to most discussions an inherently cross-cultural perspective. In
practical terms, her specialty in Internet
technology is the routing architecture, its protocols and its policies. For the
last several years she has been involved in the
UN ICT Task Force for Development. As a speaker at ICT4D in Geneva she
spoke on the problems that are encountered in bringing Internet connectivity to
communications challenged areas. She has
participated in, and spoken at, several ICT Task Force conferences on access and
connectivity. This work has made her cognizant
of the problems (technological, cultural, political and regulatory) involved in
trying to bring networking to those who currently do not have such access in
many areas of the world. She is currently a technical consultant and a
researcher affiliated to Lulea University of Technology, Sweden.