Jay Edwin Gillette
Dr. Jay Edwin Gillette is Professor Emeritus of Information and Communication Sciences at Ball State University’s Center for Information and Communication Sciences (CICS) in Indiana, USA. He is a Research Associate in its Applied Research Institute.
He is a Senior Research Fellow at the university’s Digital Policy Institute (DPI).
Dr. Gillette was honored as the Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies at the University of Oulu, Finland for 2014-2015. He shared appointments in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the Center for Internet Excellence.
Dr. Gillette has taught and conducted research in the CICS graduate Center at Ball State University, with a focus on the interaction of humans and information and communication technologies (ICT). He is particularly interested in technology policy that aids economic and community development (ICT for ECD), in addition to his ICT technical work in Human Factors and User Experience engineering.
Dr. Gillette is a member of the Pacific Telecommunications Council, the international NGO for Pacific hemisphere telecommunications development. From 2004-2013 he was elected to its international Advisory Council, and served a two-year term as Chairman.
He is also on the North American Steering Committee of the Global Forum, the international invited-conference often called "the Davos for ICT."
As part of his research interests in "smart cities," Dr. Gillette has served for many years as a member of the International Jury for the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) which picks the "Intelligent Community of the Year." He further serves as a member of its global Analyst team.
As a technology journalist, he has covered the Global Forum and PTC's Honolulu conferences as well as the Intelligent Community Forum's international conferences. He writes as a correspondent for "Network World," USA’s leading trade journal for enterprise networking. His work is syndicated by the International Data Group (IDG); his articles are readily available and reprinted worldwide.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), at Harris Manchester College.
He also was Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Information Networking and Telecommunications at Fort Hays State University in Kansas, USA.
Dr. Gillette served as a Senior Policy Fellow at the Docking Institute of Public Affairs in Kansas, and as a Senior Fellow of Information Technology and Telecommunications at the Center for the New West, in Colorado, USA. His main policy interests emphasize regional economic and community development with technology and educational catalysts.
He worked at Bellcore (Bell Communications Research/Telcordia Technologies, now part of Ericsson) as Program Manager in its Information Networking Institute and as Senior Technical Planner and Senior Project Manager in its Information Management Services division. He was a member of the industry team that helped develop Carnegie Mellon University’s graduate degree in Information Networking.
Earlier, Dr. Gillette was a professor of humanities and technical communication at the engineering university Colorado School of Mines. He also was a research editor on the staff of the Mark Twain Papers at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. He earned his graduate degrees in English at the University of California, Berkeley (dissertation on Mark Twain’s Literary Production), and undergraduate in Literature with Honors at the University of California, San Diego. In addition to his work in the information economy, Dr. Gillette has research interests in the impact of the industrial revolution in global and American culture, and in Mark Twain's life and work.
Supervisors: Dissertation Director: Richard Hutson, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
He is a Senior Research Fellow at the university’s Digital Policy Institute (DPI).
Dr. Gillette was honored as the Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies at the University of Oulu, Finland for 2014-2015. He shared appointments in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the Center for Internet Excellence.
Dr. Gillette has taught and conducted research in the CICS graduate Center at Ball State University, with a focus on the interaction of humans and information and communication technologies (ICT). He is particularly interested in technology policy that aids economic and community development (ICT for ECD), in addition to his ICT technical work in Human Factors and User Experience engineering.
Dr. Gillette is a member of the Pacific Telecommunications Council, the international NGO for Pacific hemisphere telecommunications development. From 2004-2013 he was elected to its international Advisory Council, and served a two-year term as Chairman.
He is also on the North American Steering Committee of the Global Forum, the international invited-conference often called "the Davos for ICT."
As part of his research interests in "smart cities," Dr. Gillette has served for many years as a member of the International Jury for the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) which picks the "Intelligent Community of the Year." He further serves as a member of its global Analyst team.
As a technology journalist, he has covered the Global Forum and PTC's Honolulu conferences as well as the Intelligent Community Forum's international conferences. He writes as a correspondent for "Network World," USA’s leading trade journal for enterprise networking. His work is syndicated by the International Data Group (IDG); his articles are readily available and reprinted worldwide.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), at Harris Manchester College.
He also was Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Information Networking and Telecommunications at Fort Hays State University in Kansas, USA.
Dr. Gillette served as a Senior Policy Fellow at the Docking Institute of Public Affairs in Kansas, and as a Senior Fellow of Information Technology and Telecommunications at the Center for the New West, in Colorado, USA. His main policy interests emphasize regional economic and community development with technology and educational catalysts.
He worked at Bellcore (Bell Communications Research/Telcordia Technologies, now part of Ericsson) as Program Manager in its Information Networking Institute and as Senior Technical Planner and Senior Project Manager in its Information Management Services division. He was a member of the industry team that helped develop Carnegie Mellon University’s graduate degree in Information Networking.
Earlier, Dr. Gillette was a professor of humanities and technical communication at the engineering university Colorado School of Mines. He also was a research editor on the staff of the Mark Twain Papers at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. He earned his graduate degrees in English at the University of California, Berkeley (dissertation on Mark Twain’s Literary Production), and undergraduate in Literature with Honors at the University of California, San Diego. In addition to his work in the information economy, Dr. Gillette has research interests in the impact of the industrial revolution in global and American culture, and in Mark Twain's life and work.
Supervisors: Dissertation Director: Richard Hutson, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
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This article discusses a new view of leadership in the context of “the information renaissance.” The article describes and clarifies the current era as a historical period, beyond the information revolution, that most resembles the dynamic and challenges of the European renaissance. Recognizing parallels and characteristics helps leaders understand the era’s serious challenges and develop its historic opportunities.
Using expertise in information networking as its basis—the movement and use of information—individuals need to develop a leadership model based on the role of renaissance man and renaissance woman, and organizations need to add knowledge-value to everything they touch. Despite the era’s paradoxes and risks, leadership approaches like these enable individuals and organizations to succeed and prosper in the information renaissance.
The article is in five main sections: 1. Context of the era—Information Renaissance; 2. Characteristics of the European and Information Renaissances; 3. Information Renaissance Success for Individuals and Organizations; 4. Information Networking as the key component in a Knowledge Society; 5. Conclusions and Recommendations.
The primary audience for the article is management and knowledge workers with functional, research & development, or technical roles. The article’s objective is to assist managers and knowledge workers, in knowledge-driven organizations, to develop realistic career and organizational strategies appropriate for the challenges of the information renaissance era.
This article discusses a new view of leadership in the context of “the information renaissance.” The article describes and clarifies the current era as a historical period, beyond the information revolution, that most resembles the dynamic and challenges of the European renaissance. Recognizing parallels and characteristics helps leaders understand the era’s serious challenges and develop its historic opportunities.
Using expertise in information networking as its basis—the movement and use of information—individuals need to develop a leadership model based on the role of renaissance man and renaissance woman, and organizations need to add knowledge-value to everything they touch. Despite the era’s paradoxes and risks, leadership approaches like these enable individuals and organizations to succeed and prosper in the information renaissance.
The article is in five main sections: 1. Context of the era—Information Renaissance; 2. Characteristics of the European and Information Renaissances; 3. Information Renaissance Success for Individuals and Organizations; 4. Information Networking as the key component in a Knowledge Society; 5. Conclusions and Recommendations.
The primary audience for the article is management and knowledge workers with functional, research & development, or technical roles. The article’s objective is to assist managers and knowledge workers, in knowledge-driven organizations, to develop realistic career and organizational strategies appropriate for the challenges of the information renaissance era.